ABOUT BARAKA

Baraka Community Care Center is envisaged by a group of Catholic Priests from the Congregation of Carmelites of Mary Immaculate (CMI), from India. Our purpose of coming to Kenya is to make known Jesus Christ by words and deeds. We are here to give life and life in abundance (Jn 10:10b) as Jesus our role model did and our founder St. Kariakose Elias Chavara followed. Our mission is to lead the people to the true light –Jesus, to heal their physical and inner wounds, and free them from every bondages of inhuman values, to uplift them to an integral life of peace, love and unity as the family of God. Our Mission is to free the children of God from all bondages (material, Physical and spiritual) (Lk 4:18), and give reorientation to be fully human and to be fully divine. We fulfill our vision by assisting the needy people for their education, agricultural training, health and hygiene projects and other community projects related to schools and drinking water. We do whatever is possible good to the people of god. 

Where we work:

We work at the foot of Mount kenya, mainly in Likipia county and partly in Nyeri county. Our main office is situated at Nanyuki and we expanded to Narumoru village in 2014. Our site is a semi arid area and most of the time people rely on rain for cultivation and infact the farming is the main source of income. Some involves in some small scale business and others live in slums.  The climate is almost dry all the time and some of the people are nomads. Poverty, malnutrition, and HIV are the main threat for the area. The schools in our villages are not conducive for the comfortable study of children.

What we do: 

we support the neediest children for their education through sponsorship program, school feeding programs providing lunch to the children to attract them to the school. We involve parents to assist the cultivation in schools and we give them training in modern and urban farming methods. We involve in community projects of building class rooms for schools, providing better sanitation facilities with toilets to the schools, empowering with small scale business support. We assist the street children for their rehabilitation, disabled children and abandoned elders through our activities. We give them mental and spiritual support through counseling and guidance program. We work with the people who lost their hope in the prison and the youth in and around by out reaching programs and encourage them to achieve their goals. For family empowerment we have microfinance groups. We have a model farm with fish pond, piggery, poultry, cow and goat rearing units.