Dawn processions and poetic prayers: celebrating Holy Week’s unique spirit in the Philippines

Holy Week's unique spirit in the Philippines

Holy Week, or Semana Santa, is a deeply sacred week of the year for Catholics around the world. And Lyn, our Bulacan site director, believes that her community holds it closer to their hearts than anywhere else. Their week of traditions and devotions begins on Palm Sunday. Families go to church wearing their finest clothes, […]

Jubilee with Me: Christopher’s adventure from Haiti to Egypt!

Christopher’s adventure from Haiti to Egypt!

Christopher is the youngest of seventeen children in a big, blended family, “and was sponsored when he most needed it,” says Br. Marcelin, our Haiti South site director. He was six years old at the time. “He still remembers the moments of joy and happiness he has experienced with his family members at the time […]

Construction of classroom at Kachema Musuma Orphanage, Kawambwa, Zambia

Construction of classroom at Kachema Musuma Orphanage, Kawambwa, Zambia

In 1996, Maria Makombe, a mother and teacher, opened Kachema Musuma orphanage in Kawambwa, Zambia, focusing on children who had lost parents to HIV/AIDS, malaria, childbirth, and disease. She named her home Kachema Musuma, which means Good Shepherd. Maria, concerned about the future of her children, asked the Sisters of the Child Jesus – who […]

Economic and Entrepreneurship Education, Sucre, Bolivia

Economic and Entrepreneurship Education

The Good Shepherd Sisters who run our Sucre sponsor site place a special emphasis on their work to build up women and girls who are marginalized, especially those who are impoverished, migrants, and/or survivors of violence or exploitation. Through their work, they know that many women in Sucre city, including mothers in Chalice’s sponsorship program, […]

After-school psychological support, Yapacaní, Bolivia

After-school psychological support, Yapacaní, Bolivia

The Yapacaní sponsor site staff team needed to address poor school performance since the pandemic. They recognize that all students can learn skills and build emotional resilience to achieve higher in the classroom.  The team therefore created a 30-month, five-part project and program to give students robust, professional support for their studies and build better […]

How Jesus Speaks to Us Daily

Kate, Chalice staff, Canada Jesus is the parable-teller extraordinaire. (I wish there were a word for this Parabalist? Parabonteur? Alas.) He’s virtuosic at the art of crafting his earth-shattering Messianic into a story that his particular audience that day can understand. If they’re a bunch of farmers, he speaks of seeds and soil. If labourers, […]

Every Drop Counts: Celebrating Clean Water Access on World Water Day

Mikinduri mt carmel student group taps smile wash plates

Every drop counts on World Water Day. While many of us can walk to the kitchen and turn on a tap, families at our sponsor sites travel long distances in search of water for household use. Thanks to Chalice’s generous donors, communities around the world are gaining access to clean, safe water. Our Lady of […]

Thanks to her sponsor, Kazhiini could face life with determination

Meet Kazhiini, a young woman whose life has been shaped by love, determination, and the support of her Chalice sponsor. At just four years old, Kazhiini’s life changed when she learned she would have a sponsor through Chalice’s Orissa sponsor site in India. This joy, however, was followed by deep sorrow when her father, Pfokrehe, […]