Background information
The Catholic Diocese of Murang’a Child Protection Office (CDMCPD) was established in the year 2018 with a mission to enhance coordination and timely response to cases affecting children in the two administrative counties of Murang’a and Kirinyaga.
The office mainstreams diversified issues and emergencies that affect children, as reported by other diocesan departments, charitable children’s institutions and other stakeholders within the diocese. The victim child, parents or guardians, teachers, clergy, other church leaders, police, local administration, GOK social office, GOK children office, Hospitals, special schools, public schools, and the general community are some of the stakeholders who directly report these cases to the office.
The Child Protection Office also offers Charity, humanitarian, and hospitality services to the less privileged, vulnerable children in the society, within and outside the jurisdiction of the Catholic Diocese of Murang’a. It works towards seeing a society where children get the basic needs of life, safe from neglect, discrimination, abuse, exploitation, and oppression, thereby restoring their human dignity in addition to caring for other human needs in society. Many children have found justice for cases reported to the office. Most of these cases relate to defilement, exploitation, vulnerability, neglect, physical abuse, lack of school fees, food, teenage pregnancies, etc.
The office also has three children’s charitable institutions directly run under the Diocesan congregation (Upendo CDM, St. Michael and Maria Mother Mazzarello), which it directly supervises and also works in collaboration with other CCIs and catholic sponsored schools where children, especially those with special needs, attend school. Other duties attached to the children’s office include the implementation of Diocesan and Government policies, as well as collaboration and networking with other stakeholders for the benefit of the children and society at large.
