Author Archives: chalice

Four school water tap stations, Mikinduri, Kenya

Four school water tap stations, Mikinduri, Kenya

Our Mikinduri site is building handwashing stations in four schools for 2,700 people. Multiply the impact of your giving! A generous donor will match your donations to this project. Double your impact and spread even more love and support to those in need. Children who go to less privileged public schools in our Mikinduri site […]

Favor’s surgery, Mombasa, Kenya

Favor's surgery, Mombasa, Kenya

Funding Request: $6,605.50 CAD  Critical Need: CNKMC1024C  Lilian raised her four children on her own in a suburb of Mombasa, on Kenya’s ocean coast. Her youngest of the four is Favor, who has the support of a Chalice sponsor through our Mombasa site.   At 11 years old, Favor is in grade five. When Favor was […]

Nutrition Support for Sponsored Families and Site Staff, Saint Dominique, Haiti

Nutrition Support for Sponsored Families and Site Staff, Saint Dominique, Haiti

Saint Dominique site families need relief funds for sponsored children and staff to buy food locally. Multiply the impact of your giving! A generous donor will match your donations to this program. Double your impact and spread even more love and support to those in need. Political violence, gang warfare, and economic instability continue to […]

Skills, Growth, and Empowerment at CMAVIL

Our CMAVIL site in Villeta, Paraguay, is always looking for ways to create opportunities for women and empower them through training, education, social participation, and new means of generating incomes for their families. They also extend these same opportunities for youth, especially in a region with high dropout rates and minimal access to higher education. […]

Support for 34 families affected by fire at Aroma Temporary Housing, Tondo, Philippines

Support for 34 families affected by fire at Aroma Temporary Housing, Tondo, Philippines

Funding Request: $46,104.54 CAD  Project Code: DFPTA1024  At around 10:30pm one night in March 2024, a fire broke out in the densely packed Aroma Temporary Housing neighbourhood in Manila. It was a three-alarm fire before midnight, and crews battled the flames until sunrise, according to local news reports. The fire forced 652 families out of […]

Lawrence’s hospitalization and treatment, Nairobi, Kenya

Lawrence’s hospitalization and treatment, Nairobi, Kenya

Funding Request: $2,579.50 CAD Critical Need: CNKNK0924  Lawrence, aged 82, is a loving father and grandfather. He cares for two of his grandchildren, Andrew and Yawaniter, who are sponsored by Chalice through our Nairobi site. He is currently living in a village outside of the capital after many years of working as a casual laborer […]

Sandra’s medical tests and rheumatoid arthritis treatment, Amanecer, Bolivia

Sandra's medical tests and rheumatoid arthritis treatment, Amanecer, Bolivia

Funding Request: $3,203.35 CAD Critical Need: CNBAC0924  Sandra is a resilient single mother of four. Her three school-aged boys are sponsored through Chalice’s Amanecer site in Cochabamba, Bolivia. Sandra, 50, has lived with debilitating arthritic pain for six years. Her health prevents her from finding work that meets the country’s minimum wage requirements. When she […]

John’s craniectomy surgery, Orissa, India

Funding Request: $1,312.24 CAD Critical Need: CNIOP0924  John is 27 years old, the eldest of his four sisters and one brother. Two of his sisters are attending school with the support of Chalice sponsors and the Orissa site. John only had the opportunity to study to grade eleven and entered the workforce to support his […]

Vasyl’s kyphoscoliosis corrective surgery, Ternopil, Ukraine

Funding Request: $9,792.88 CAD Critical Need: CNUTM1024 Vasyl is 16 years old and lives with his family of seven in a village within our Ternopil site region. A cheerful and sociable soul, he has been blessed with a Chalice sponsor since he was four years old. After completing grade nine, he entered agricultural college and […]

House rebuild for Phineas’ family, Mikinduri, Kenya

House rebuild for Phineas' family, Mikinduri, Kenya

Funding Request: $9,569.68 CAD Critical Need: CNKMM0924  Veronica is raising six children on her own in a remote village within Chalice’s Mikinduri sponsor site. Her eldest and youngest sons, Phineas and Eric, are sponsored. Over the years, Veronica has struggled to provide basic needs for her family – particularly shelter, food, clothing, and medication. She […]