When families receive the gift of house construction or repairs, it isn’t just wood, nails, or sheets of metal, it is hope and comfort. The Philippines faces powerful storms each year. The communities experience heavy rainfall and strong winds that cause damage to their homes. Three families in the Philippines were overjoyed to receive repairs […]
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Luba, Ternopil site leader, Ukraine A bed is a rarely appreciated item, used for resting, sleeping, and often for illness or vulnerability. It is a private space, symbolizing boundaries between the public and private. But it’s a gift that not everyone has. Sleep is when children’s bodies recharge and retain everything they learned that day. […]
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Funding request: $2,972.95 CAD Critical Need: CN-BSS0225 Margarita is 44 years old and lives with her three children and her husband, Miguel, in her parents’ home. Her two school-aged children, Rodrigo and Alejandra, are enjoying school with the support of a Chalice sponsor through our Guadalupe sponsor site. Miguel works sporadically as a carpenter, while […]
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Funding Request: $7,852.55 CAD Critical Need: CNKBN0225 Jedidah is a single mother of two who provides for her family as a casual labourer. Her nine-year-old son Elvis was born with cerebral palsy, and she sometimes struggles to afford his hygiene and continence produces. Elvis has been blessed by a Chalice sponsor through the Baraka site […]
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Attack survivor needs specialist eye care. Funding request: $4,002.40 CAD Critical Need: CN-KNK1124 Zakayo is a carpenter and a father of six children. Zakayo, 68, is a trained carpenter, and he tries to support his family with occasional, casual work in the city. His son, Willys, is sponsored through the Nairobi site. Zakayo was violently […]
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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, […]
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Eva thought she had very few options. She had left school in grade seven and became a young mother. But the Santiago sponsor site in Chile has been with her from the moment her daughter, Ashley, was born, and has never left her side. Ashley was sponsored as soon as she was born, and today, […]
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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 […]
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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 […]
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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, […]