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Links
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| Catholic
Relief Services' work in Kenya focuses on changing the
structure of social, economic, cultural and political
systems that create or perpetrate conditions of injustice.
Key issues include basic human needs, governance, Global
Solidarity, HIV/AIDS and education. |
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| GOAL's
Mission Statement: To work towards ensuring that the
poorest of the poor and most vulnerable in our world and
those affected by humanitarian crises have access to the
fundamental needs and rights of life, for example, food,
water, shelter, medical attention and literacy. In 2006
Goal made an enormous contribution to the Diocese by
providing crisis intervention in the form of mobile Water
Tankers, and by constructing several major water
conservation, harvesting and storage schemes. This work
continues in 2007. |
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| CAFOD
is the international aid agency of the Catholic Church in
England and Wales, sharing in the Church’s task of
transforming the world to reflect the Kingdom of God,
through solidarity with the poor and action for justice.
Mutomo clinic alone receives £55,000 a year from CAFOD to
help people with HIV and AIDS. |
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Trócaire
is working for a just world where people's dignity is
ensured, the rights of individuals are respected and where
basic needs are met.
Trócaire, in conjunction with Irish Aid, has spent some
€800,000 to date (April 2006) on the emergency response
to the drought in Kenya. The money has been used for
supplementary feeding programmes for those suffering from
malnutrition, food distribution to the most vulnerable and
food for work schemes to help people prepare and mitigate
against future drought and other natural disasters.
Working in conjunction with local organisations , Trócaire
is responding to the crisis in the districts of Nyeri,
Laikipia, Kitui, Turkana, Meru, Tharaka, Mbeere, and Tana
River. |
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| For
the past two years, the Archdiocese of St. Paul-Minneapolis
has begun to form a Global Solidarity Partnership with the
Diocese of Kitui, Kenya. In October of 2005, sixteen
members of the archdiocese journeyed to Kitui to further
build and consolidate the partnership. A delegation from
the diocese of Kitui travelled to Minneapolis at the end of
September of this year. |
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| All
over the world people are working for justice, peace and
the integrity of Creation. As a church-based aid agency,
the Swiss Catholic Lenten Fund (SCLF) follows and supports
this movement of solidarity in the spirit of our Christian
belief. Both in Switzerland and around the world, we
eagerly share in the efforts to shape social and church
life along the lines of solidarity, whilst fully respecting
the diversity of peoples, cultures and religions. We urge
all people of good will to be ready to share in this
project for a world of solidarity. |
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| The
organization of the Catholic Hierarchy in Kenya constituted
with the approval of the Apostolic See through which its
members will firstly exercise together their offices as
pastors for the benefit of the faithful entrusted to them
and secondly shall promote the greater good which the
Church offers to all people by adapting forms and methods
of apostolate suitable to Kenya. (Can 447, KEC Statutes).
The members of the Conference are “de jure” all the
Diocesan Bishops of Kenya/Military Ordinariate, the Vicar
Apostolic and Apostolic Prefecture, Apostolic Administrator
and Diocesan Administrators, all Coadjutor Bishops,
Auxiliary Bishops and other Titular Bishops who exercise a
special office assigned by the Apostolic See of the KEC in
Kenya |
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