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Warm Welcome At Njiru Health Centre

Health centres near our sites help families by improving access to medical services. Njiru Health Centre, in Kenya, opened in 2007. The centre opened as a dispensary serving the underprivileged communities in Nairobi’s dense urban neighbourhoods. These are the same communities served by Chalice’s Nairobi sponsor site. In the intervening years, Njiru has become an […]

Marioli’s cataract surgery, Tukuy, Bolivia

Marioli’s cataract surgery, Tukuy, Bolivia

Funding Request: $2,006.43 CAD  Critical Need: CNBTC0924  Marioli is thirteen years old and lives with her parents, Flora and Daniel, and their six-year-old grandson, Fernando. Marioli was born with Down Syndrome and experiences seizures frequently enough that she prefers to move about by crawling instead of risking a fall.  Her Chalice sponsor through our Tukuy […]

Stefaniya’s treatment and caregiver support, Ternopil, Ukraine

Stefaniya's treatment and caregiver support, Ternopil, Ukraine

Funding Request: $2,226.08 CAD  Critical Need: CNUTT1024  Stefaniya is 75 years old and the mother-in-law of Lyubov, Chalice’s fieldworker covering sponsored children in the Borschiv district of the Ternopil region. Stefaniya has lived alone in her small house since her husband Stepan passed away two years ago. Lyubov and her husband, Ivan, visit every day […]

Romeo’s chemotherapy treatment and surgery, Orissa, India

Romeo’s chemotherapy treatment and surgery, Orissa, India

Funding Request: $3,142.56 CAD  Critical Need: CNIOM0824  Romeo lives with his parents, Ashuli and Kaziini, and his two younger sisters near our Orissa site in northern India. His parents work on other families’ farms, but they do not have land of their own. His sisters, Rakuzhiiro and Adaziini, are both studying with the great help […]

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 […]