About Misean Cara Misean Cara is an international and Irish faith-based missionary movement working with some of the most marginalised and vulnerable communities in developing countries. We are working to realise their human rights through delivery of basic services...
Keeping children safe is fundamental to the policy and practice of every development project supported by Misean Cara. It is underpinned by the core missionary values of Respect, Integrity, Compassion, Justice and Commitment: Where these values are truly lived,...
AIDS is the second biggest killer of teenagers worldwide. In 2017, 590,000 young people between the ages of 15-24 were newly infected with HIV, of whom 250,000 were adolescents between the ages of 15-19. To compound this, only 23%...
Harry Shier, Learning and Development Officer recently conducted a monitoring trip in Kenya to visit Misean Cara funded projects working in the human rights sector. Read Harry’s blog below. A Human-Rights-Based Approach to Keeping Children Safe in Kenya “A...
December 1st is World AIDS Day. This year the UNAIDS campaign focusses on #myrighttohealth which explores the challenges people around the world face in exercising their right to health. This includes the right of everyone, including people living with...
With the upcoming Kenyan General elections scheduled for this August 2017, Misean Cara’s Development Mentor Paul Gichuki and Human Rights Project Officer Ivanna Youtchak, in collaboration with Justice, Peace and Integrity of Creation-Franciscans Africa hosted a two-day peace building...
The Ruben Centre works for a just and empowered Mukuru Slum Community. The centre provides access to education, skills training, maternal and child health, and economic empowerment for residents of the Mukuru kwa Ruben slum. It is managed by...
There is a very special Misean Cara photographic exhibition that is taking place right now in the Dolphins Barn Library in Dublin entitled: ‘The Ruben Centre, Mukuru Slum Kenya.’ This exhibition highlights Edmund Rice Development (the Christian Brothers) overseas...
The ongoing campaign in Kenya, and other parts of Africa, of educating both children and adults on forms and effects of child abuse and the need to establish concrete measures to protect children, has resulted in an increased number...
Today there are 16 million girls around the world who will never start school. For both girls and boys globally, there are 124 million children and young adults who are not in school. Unfortunately, universal access to primary education...