Organic Health Response

We support an ecosystem of diverse community health initiatives on Mfangano Island, Lake Victoria, Kenya.

We’ve enrolled and tested over
5500
EK club members!

Mfangano Community Health Field Station

A collaboration between OHR, Maseno University & University of Minnesota. Together, we seek to advance community-based research, bilateral training opportunities for health practitioners from Kenya and USA. Learn more!
EK Emergency Boat

Day and night, the EK Boat transports Mfangano residents in need of critical emergency care, often at mainland hospitals, a lake away
Africa’s First Wind-Powered Radio

EK FM- “Suba Youth Radio” is Africa’s first wind-powered radio station. Today, our youth presenters are broadcasting in the endangered Suba language to over 200,000 people in Western Kenya.
The Ekialo Kiona “Worldwide” Center

The “EK” is our HQ on Mfangano: our solar-powered field station, farm and tree nursery, community training facility, mountain bike shop, and favorite lunch spot.
Mfangano on the Horizon

Mfangano Island is home to 26,000 people who live in remote fishing communities, surrounded by some of the deepest water in Lake Victoria…

Media

Video • Radio • Photos

Folks are talking, things are happening on this beautiful island.

The story of OHR

Mfangano Island is home to 26,000 Suba and Luo people who live in remote fishing villages near the Kenya-Uganda boundary waters.

Learn more about the challenges on Mfangano.

"OHR Announces Dr. Lily Muldoon as new Executive Director"

August 5, 2019

The Organic Health Response (OHR) Board of Directors is excited to announce the start of our new Executive Director of OHR, Dr. Lily Muldoon! Dr. Muldoon is a graduate of the University of California San Francisco (UCSF) School of Medicine, where she met OHR-EK Co-founder Dr. Chas Salmen in 2010. She also completed her Emergency Medicine residency at… Read more »

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