CARITAS MOMBASA

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About Caritas

Caritas Mombasa is the development arm of the Catholic Archdiocese of Mombasa and the official tool of the Archdiocese in the promotion and coordination of charitable contributions.

Through the 62 parishes spread across Kwale, Kilifi, Mombasa and Taita-Taveta It cooperates with the poorest and vulnerable populations in the urban and semi-urban, rural, and marginalized areas.

Its main challenges remain rampant poverty, frequent disaster occurrences and climate change effects, lack of critical resources (water and food shortage), increasing inequalities and HIV/AIDS Pandemic.

Running Programs

• Humanitarian Programs: Caritas Mombasa organizes emergency activities and integrates a long-term perspective for disaster prevention program establishes and maintains an efficient and coordinated system for managing natural or man-made disasters. 
  
• Livelihood Program: Develops poverty reduction strategies to empower communities and individuals towards self-sustenance in all areas. The program deals with food security, microfinance, and environmental conservation as key areas of intervention. It also oversees the implementation of water sanitation and hygiene (WASH) activities, in order to promote sanitation and hygiene practices that will ensure the optimal development and use of water and water facilities.
• Women and Gender program. The program promotes empowerment in men and women and facilitates equal participation and, opportunity, especially among the poor and vulnerable men and women in Kenya. 
• Youth Empowerment: The program is designed to ensure that youth (young female and Male) have the necessary technical skills to help in job seeking and opportunities for advantage taking. It also avails practical life skills  
  

Other cross-cutting programs focus on ‘Capacity Building’ and ‘Research, Information and Advocacy’, for strengthening leadership and conducting research for guiding development initiatives, respectively.

Caritas Mombasa works with other members of the Caritas Network and Caritas Internationalis, County and National government ministries and also with other national and international non-governmental organizations within and outside the country.

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Special Programs

1. Human and organ trafficking sensitization

2. Feed Kilifi

• Feed Kilifi is a project developed with the support of Caritas Ambrosiana. 
•  The project started in April 2015. It’s aimed to promote sustainable development in the arid areas of Kilifi County and reduce the poverty level of local communities, affected by a situation of severe drought and food insecurity. 
  

3. Cook Stove Project

• Farmers being trained on how conserve energy through using stony rock-bed to preserve heat and let it last longer. This is one of the measures to combat rapid deforestation rate.
  

4. Mahali Pa Usalama

• “Mahali Pa Usalama” (MPU) is a rescue centre. It was founded in 2008 by late archbishop Boniface Lele of Mombasa Archdiocese. The idea was conceived when it became apparent that many children were being abused at home, streets, beaches by people that were supposed to provide care and protection. It is located in Tudor Mombasa center Mombasa County and is the only referral healing centre for the abused children in the coastal region.
  

5. SOLGIDI

• “Solidarity with Girls in Distress” is a program of the Catholic Archdiocese of Mombasa initiated to empower children from families of commercial sex workers in Mombasa County of the coast region. The program started in April 2002. The main goal of SOLGIDI is to provide opportunities for education and lead a normal accepted life for children of Commercial Sex workers (CSWs). The beneficiaries are mostly female children of CSWs up to the age of 18 years, while guardians and siblings become secondary beneficiaries. SOLGIDI contributes towards the improvement of the lifestyles of children by providing basic education and life skills.