“The future I want for my child”: How climate action can transform children’s health in cities

Author: Nzisa Kioko and Sarah Sharpe Parents in Nairobi tell their stories about how climate change and air pollution are affecting the health of their children – and share their vision for a healthier, cleaner future. Children are particularly vulnerable to the health impacts of climate change, including the effects of heat and air pollution. African …

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Using design to rethink how people in Nairobi find cool events

How do you find events in Nairobi?

Assessing healthcare in Urban Slums within Nairobi to uncover why the healthcare provision system is broken

Photo: Walking in Mukuru kwa Njenga, 2019 About the Project This was one of the most exciting projects we worked on during our fellowship at NDI. This was largely because it was the first time we got to work in teams of two, and had the freedom in picking the challenge to work on. Our …

Leveraging digital innovations to advance sexual reproductive health for adolescents.

In November 2022, I had the chance to talk about Youth Inclusion in designing for digital healthcare based on my experience in Kenya and Rwanda. This speech first appeared on a Word document at YLabs, before being shared with the world at the ICFP Youth Plenary. You can read it here or check out the …

Fellowship Learning & Reflections: Nzisa Kioko, YLabs

Nzisa is a Human Centered Designer and Researcher who is passionate about solutions that bring impact to the users. She is a graduate of the University of Nairobi (Bachelor of Arts in Design) and the Nairobi Design Institute (Human Centered Design, UX, UI) and has been working at the intersection of design and research to …

Understanding Human Centered Design

Illustration by Freepik Storyset How would you explain HCD to a 10 year old?  *This is a problem solving approach, commonly used to develop or improve solutions to challenges by including the people you are designing for throughout the whole process.* For example, Imagine you want to help children access phone games in a safe …

Waste Management: Designing for proper waste material management

A case for Vituu, a better way to waste Photo: Waste material awaiting processing at a recycling plant in Dandora, 2019 ChallengePeople in Nairobi do not sort their waste. Nairobi generates over 3000 tons of waste every single day, which is collected and taken to dumpsites around Nairobi. The collected waste is a resource too, …

Becoming Unscripted: So who am I

I am a broken soul, a weeping soul .A hurt soul who doesn't know anything about real happiness because when is the last time you felt truly happy?

Becoming Unscripted: Black and white

Have you ever taken the step to really putting down what makes you, YOU? We all think we know our friends, our drinking buddies, our reading partners, ourselves, but isn’t what we know a scripted performance? Inspired by Clare Pooley in The Authenticity Project, a book we read in the month of May, several of us decided to …

Becoming Unscripted: I am Dejected

So how well do you know the people around you? We hope telling our stories will help someone. It could be ourselves, in the pursuit of who we are or some random person out there who feels like the walls are caving in.