Humanitarian and emergency response
Provides disaster preparedness, emergency response, recovery support, food assistance, non-food items, medical support, and resilience-building for communities affected by floods, droughts, and other emergencies.
Departments
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Caritas
The Diocese development and humanitarian arm, serving vulnerable communities through dignity, resilience, justice, peacebuilding, and sustainable development.
Overview
Caritas Nakuru, also serving as the Planning and Development Office of the Catholic Diocese of Nakuru, was established in 1973 to respond to social, economic, educational, health, and development needs of vulnerable communities. Guided by Catholic Social Teaching, it works across Nakuru and Baringo Counties through charity, development, advocacy, humanitarian action, and evidence-based programme coordination.
Mandate
Serve as the focal and strategic unit for planning, coordination, implementation, monitoring, and evaluation of diocesan development programmes. Caritas facilitates development planning and budgeting, strengthens partnerships, promotes accountability and learning, mobilizes resources, and coordinates programmes that uphold human dignity.
Focus areas
Humanitarian and emergency responseLivelihoods, VSLAs, entrepreneurship, and climate-smart agricultureWASH, education, health, safeguarding, and social welfarePeacebuilding, social cohesion, infrastructure, and vocational skills
Programmes
How this department serves
Livelihoods and economic empowerment
Promotes Village Savings and Loan Associations, entrepreneurship, climate-smart agriculture, income-generating activities, and community-based economic resilience.
Water, sanitation, and hygiene
Improves access to safe water and sanitation through rainwater harvesting, gravity water schemes, rehabilitation of water sources, hygiene promotion, and sanitation infrastructure in schools and communities.
Education and health support
Supports school infrastructure, feeding programmes, vulnerable learners, medical outreaches, faith-based facilities, community health programmes, and affordable quality healthcare.
Protection, safeguarding, and advocacy
Addresses child protection, Gender-Based Violence, Female Genital Mutilation, safeguarding of children and vulnerable adults, social inclusion, advocacy, and policy development.
Social welfare and Small Homes
Rehabilitates and reintegrates street-connected children and youth, empowers caregivers, and supports five Small Homes that provide rehabilitation, healthcare, education, psychosocial support, inclusion, and vocational training for children and youth with disabilities.
Peacebuilding and social cohesion
Through the Catholic Justice and Peace Department, promotes peaceful coexistence, civic participation, good governance, human rights, conflict management, environmental stewardship, and community cohesion.
Infrastructure and vocational skills
Supports churches, schools, hospitals, vocational institutions, water systems, and technical/vocational training that improve essential services and pathways to self-reliance.
Strategic priorities
- Coordinate development planning, budgeting, monitoring, evaluation, accountability, and learning.
- Build resilient, self-reliant communities through integrated development programmes.
- Serve vulnerable children, families, persons with disabilities, youth, and communities facing poverty, food insecurity, disasters, and social exclusion.
- Strengthen partnerships with communities, parishes, government, development partners, and stakeholders.
Impact
- Over 53 years of humanitarian and community development work.
- More than 800,000 people reached through humanitarian assistance, development programmes, and emergency response.
- More than 150,000 children supported through education, nutrition, protection, rehabilitation, and disability inclusion programmes.
- More than 5,000 street-connected children and youth rehabilitated and empowered.
- More than 100,000 trees planted for environmental conservation and climate resilience.
- Five Small Homes provide care, education, healthcare, rehabilitation, and vocational training for children and youth with disabilities.
- Sixty-four parishes served across Nakuru and Baringo Counties.
Leadership & Team
Department Members
Martin Wamai
Caritas Director
Aileen Kanana
Project Manager - Social Welfare
Mercy Ahono
Therapist, CDN Small Homes
Rev. Fr. Samuel Waweru
Coordinator, CJPD
Sharon Komen
Project Officer, Small Homes
Priscillah Ngwareini
Admin. Assistant, Caritas
Programme gallery
Caritas work in communities
Safeguarding and peacebuilding training in Baringo County
Children and youth served through Small Homes support
Humanitarian assistance intervention in Baringo County
Medical outreach in Baringo
Financial literacy and community empowerment training
Kitchen gardening and livelihood learning in Rotu, Baringo
Water access through borehole support in Tangulbei, Baringo
Peacebuilding and social cohesion mural in Baringo