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MERRY CHRISTMAS AND HAPPY NEW YEAR 2024
The Catholic Diocese of Maralal wishes you Merry Christmas! May your heart be light, your celebrations be joyful, and your time with loved ones be filled with warmth and laughter. Wishing you a holiday season full of love, peace, and happiness. May the spirit of Christmas bring you hope and inspiration for the coming year. Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year 2024
DISTRIBUTION OF SEEDLINGS
Caritas Maralal in partnership with CAFOD, distributed a variety of drought resistant seedlings to agro-pastoral farmers in Samburu County to promote food security, as shown in the clip below.
Emergency and Recovery Training
Emergency and recovery project funded by CAFOD conducted a two days training of Emergency response team from Suguta ward. The main objective of the training is to equip them with knowledge on prevention, mitigation, preparedness, response and recovery to emergencies.
Community-led total sanitation training
Community-led total sanitation training at Lukumae(Kinya).
Participants reaction to the demonstrations is what makes the trainings more interesting with the communities promising to try as much as possible to observe hygiene especially along water sources and near homesteads. We still have challenges with lack of toilets
1st Samburu County Resilience Knowledge Fair
Caritas Maralal and Radio Mchungaji 94.5 FM at the 1st Samburu County Resilience Knowledge Fair under the theme: Strengthening Community Learning to increase adaptive capacity to shocks and stresses at Maralal Safari Lodge. Thank you Samburu County and USAID RLA for organizing such an event that created opportunity for partners to showcase and share their initiative’s, experiences and best practices.
World Environmental Day
Caritas Maralal through the CAFOD and VCA-SICRACC projects facilitated in marking of World Environmental Day on 5th June 2023 at Kisima. This year the global theme is ‘Solution to plastic pollution’. The world’s attention in recent times has been focused on plastic, their usefulness and the damage they continue to wreck on the planet and it’s resources. The theme for this year brought to the attention of the world the pertinent question of how people interact with the plastic, how they are produced, consumed and eventually disposed.
#Beat plastic Pollution.
Caritas Maralal-MRLP TRAINING
Caritas Maralal-MRLP team conducted formation and training of VSLA(village saving and lending association) in Oromoidei and Ntunyus villages in Wamba North ward. A project funded by CAFOD (Catholic Agencies for overseas development) with the objective of empowering women economically.
Drought Emergency Response
Caritas Maralal through its Drought Emergency Response project funded by CAFOD distributed food stuff i.e maize flour, beans ,sugar,rice, cooking Oil,cabbages and nutritious food to (pregnant and lactating women) community members from keleshwa (105 HHs)and terter (145HHs)villages. The organisation aims to join hands with other partners and stakeholders in relieving the most vulnerable households from the pangs of the just ended drought menace.
This comes as the 3rd and the last month for distribution. The project was meant to support the community for three months.
Community Dialogue in Samburu East
Caritas maralal through the VCA-SICRACC project, conducted a two day community dialogue in Samburu East (Lentanai village) on climate change and future of pastoralism. Discussed, were issues on Climate change awareness, cause and effects, the future of pastoralism and local solutions to climate change.
The climax of the community conversation was development of community action plans to guide their development agenda.
