Healthy Beginnings and Hopeful Futures: World Health Day 2025
On World Health Day 2025, we highlight the urgent need to invest in maternal and newborn health in Kenya, tackling preventable deaths and improving futures.
Elevating Female Farmers: Driving Change Across Sub-Saharan Africa
Empowering female farmers across sub-Saharan Africa is key to driving economic growth, food security, and gender equality. Discover how organizations are unlocking opportunities for women in agriculture, helping them build sustainable livelihoods and break cycles of poverty.
Agriculture for All Women and Girls: Rights. Equality. Empowerment.
This International Women’s Day, Haller highlights the vital role of female farmers in combating poverty and food insecurity. Women perform up to 60% of agricultural labor in parts of Africa, yet their contributions remain overlooked. Discover how Haller empowers women with training, resources, and support to boost yields, improve livelihoods, and break cycles of inequality.
Harnessing Africa’s Youthquake: The Future of Climate, Agriculture, and Innovation
As part of Haller's 20th Birthday Celebration, we hosted a panel discussion addressing Africa’s population boom and its global implications. This thought-provoking session was chaired by journalist David Eades on Friday 20th September 2024, and hosted at Mondrian Investment Capital, London. On the panel sat Ed Paice, author of" Youth Quake: Why African Demography Matters to the Rest of the World", Noni Muchiri of BBC World Service, Jessica Hagen-Zanker from the Overseas Development Institute (ODI) and David Ngome, Haller Foundation trustee and development communications consultant at the International Fertiliser Development Centre (IFDC).
Adapting to Kenya’s Changing Climate
Adapting to climate change—learn how Haller is empowering Kenya’s smallholder farmers, particularly women, with sustainable farming techniques to combat droughts and flooding. Through water conservation, composting, and innovative planting methods, we’re helping communities secure their livelihoods and protect their environment for future generations.
Improving Access to Healthcare in Rural Kenya
Access to quality healthcare remains a significant challenge for rural communities in Kenya, with limited infrastructure and resources leaving many vulnerable. Haller addresses these challenges through mobile clinics, community education, and healthcare support, ensuring smallholder farmers can thrive. Discover how innovative solutions like camel clinics, motorcycle ambulances, and medical drones are transforming healthcare delivery across the region.
Transforming Communities Through WASH Projects
Discover the transformative impact of eco-loos in rural Kenya. Learn how Haller's innovative sanitation projects improve health, water access, and sustainability, benefiting smallholder communities near Mombasa. Support Haller’s mission to create lasting change.
2024 NGOs Awards Nomination: Best in Education
Education is at the heart of everything we do at Haller. It’s the foundation for sustainable change, empowering smallholder communities across Africa with life-long learning opportunities. Through farmer training, youth initiatives, and the Nguuni Education Centre, we are committed to fostering environmental stewardship, sustainable farming, and academic growth.
From our climate-smart training programs near Mombasa to the innovative Haller Farmers App reaching remote communities, we’re transforming lives. The Nguuni Education Centre, Kenya’s first free children’s library, continues to serve thousands of disadvantaged students, driving literacy and engagement.
Help us expand our impact. Vote for Haller in the ‘Best in Education’ category at the 2024 Kenyan NGO Awards! Your support can help us build self-sustaining communities and pathways out of poverty through education.
Haller at 20.
Over 20 years, the challenges facing the smallholder communities Haller was set up to serve have shifted and evolved. But our approach remains rooted in a mission to bring together ecology and economy.
Tell the Bees: Preserving and Encouraging Biodiversity
Bees play a critical role in the global food chain, pollinating around three-quarters of the world’s flowering plants which produce 90% of the world’s food. The FAO has estimated that one out of every three bites of food we eat depends on bee pollination.
The Haller Farmers App in Action: Stories from Kenya
As part of our new app launch, we wanted to take some time to reflect with our team in Kenya on the impact of the app to date, and why continued innovation is so important.
Closing the ‘Crop Gap’: Addressing the Inequalities faced by Female Smallholders
Despite their outsized importance in the global food system, female farmers face a growing number of challenges. Not only do these obstacles negatively impact individual female smallholders, they fundamentally undermine global efforts to address hunger and poverty.
Ensuring Proper Sanitation for Schools and Infrastructure for Climate-Smart Farmer Training
In 2023, Haller joined forces with long-time donor the Eagle Foundation to channel efforts into two key projects: installing sanitation in the community-owned Munnawar primary school, and expanding the capacity of the Mtopanga demonstration farm.
Case Study Osiligi & Haller, a collaborative approach to Farmer Training in Kenya
In December 2023, the Haller team in Kenya conducted farmer training sessions in partnership with the Osiligi Charity Projects. An exciting step in our mission to scale knowledge of regenerative farming in Kenya and beyond.
Haller Founder Wins 'Points of Light' Award!
We are proud to announce that Haller Founder, Louise Piper, has been awarded the Prime Minister's 'Points of Light' award for her work with our communities in Kenya. Well done Louise, richly deserved!
One Day's Wages
We have been chosen as One Day's Wages 100th charity!!!!For every pound donated via Haller's page on the One Day's Wages website, they will match it! There has never been a better time to donate!!!