The following updates come direct from members of our Kenyan team and community, I'm publishing them from me in the UK because at present there are some government restrictions on publishing informati...

The Kanga is a traditional garment mostly used in African regions by women to tie around their waist as a wrap skirt, carry babies on their backs, folded to form a base to carry luggage on the head am...

Next year we're coming back - bigger and better than ever. In 2020, Team Mum hope to raise enough to bring pregnant women's groups to a new area of Kenya, this time working specifically with very youn...

Laura said, "I am so incredibly excited and grateful to be a Ride Africa ambassador, taking on November’s ride. As soon as the team got in touch, I jumped at the chance to be involved - cycling throug...

Baby Boxes have been making news in the UK for a few years, with research and debates ongoing into how they help families in Scotland and Finland (or shoppers at Lidl). But there's been precious littl...

New mums in Winfred's community lack status. This makes it difficult for them to make decisions about their own health or the health of their babies, and means that many young mums don't seek help whe...

The story so far... Back in May, at the start of the programme, Child.org trained four research assistants to conduct a baseline survey in informal settlements in Westlands, Nairobi. The women surveye...

Perhaps there will not be so dramatic a reaction, but I for one will be sad to leave this clanging, frightening, kind and laid-back city. Looking back at what has been one of the most tightly packed t...

It’s our last day in Nairobi, so we thought we’d share with you some of our experiences. We’ve spent the last two weeks using the mornings to visit clinics where mums were collecting baby boxes and vi...

Baby Rayne in her Baby Box. We’ve now reached a new phase in the baby box pilot, where we are visiting mums in their homes one month after they have received the boxes to see how they’re being used. T...

  In Kenya, only 51% of mothers and 36% of newborns receive postnatal care within the first 48 hours of birth. One of the goals of Child.org's baby box programme is “To find out if the baby box is a s...

We’ve landed! On Sunday for Rona, and early Monday morning for Amelia we arrived in Nairobi to start our placement in Content and Communications with the Kenyan Child.org team. We’ll be gathering comm...

The baseline is an in-depth survey we conducted right at the start of a programme - to find out more about what the situation is like for families before we provide them with a box. The data will help...

It was an extremely exciting week for our Nairobi office last week, as we completed our baseline survey and began registering mums to take part in our baby box programme! The baseline survey has been...

She is spearheading Child.org’s move to project-manage our programmes more directly. Cherio works in collaboration with our long-standing partners to manage our HealthStart programme, to ensure it is...

The school is in an area of rural Kisumu that is stricken by poverty. But despite the obstacles he faces, Walter has a vision - a school where every child is able to learn, regardless of their disabil...

Thanks to your generous donations to our first ever Christmas campaign (£4884 raised so far!), we're kicking off the work to launch this brand new Child.org programme. Charity Apprentice Alumnus Anne-...

What is HealthStart? Thanks to the support of our biggest donor, Festival Republic, for the past three years we’ve been running HealthStart, an innovative school health and nutrition programme, with o...

Delivering innovative programmes like HealthStart, and supporting our children’s centres in Kisumu requires a huge amount of input, management and expertise. To do this we work really closely with our...

Child.org trustee Sam Mason talks about her experience of the 2014 ride. We’d done a little training and bought the kit that until then we’d never heard of – SPDs, sleeves, chamois cream. In all truth...