Caritas Kenya is the development and humanitarian arm of the Kenya Conference of Catholic Bishops (KCCB). It was established in 1973 as the Development and Social Services arm of the Kenya Episcopal Conference now known as the KCCB. Caritas Kenya was later launched on November 2012 and has presence in 25 Catholic Dioceses spread across the 47 Counties in Kenya. Averagely, all the 25 Diocesan Caritas hosts over 350 staff members country wide.
Caritas Kenya works closely with the most poor and vulnerable population in the urban and peri-urban, rural and marginalised Kenyan lands.
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.
