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 […]
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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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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. […]
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 […]
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 […]