Barikisu is no stranger to being strong. As a cancer survivor who lost her father at a young age, resilience is all she knows. She and her siblings were raised by her mother near our Wa site in Ghana. After her father passed away, she was blessed by the support of a wonderful Chalice …
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On top of costly health treatments and trouble finding work, Natalya faced a problem familiar to many parents: a broken gas stove. Her family had a wood stove to spare, but it wasn’t good enough. In comparison to a gas stove, a wood stove is much slower, taking longer to start a fire. Natalya was …
Taking a leaf out of St. Therese’s Little Way, Kristin McCarthy has launched a small fundraiser with big heart. The owner of Kristin McCarthy Designs in Rockwood, Ontario, Kristin has begun making small, woollen Ukrainian flags. She’s selling them and donating the money to a special cause: Chalice’s sites in Ukraine.
Noemi is a woman with big plans: becoming a doctor. She’s studying integral beauty at school, but her sights are set on medicine. Once she’s accepted to university, she’ll work as a stylist to cover her expenses. But her success is the result of many years of struggle. Her single mother raised her and …
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The Sisters of St Joseph Mombasa run Chalice’s Mombasa sponsor site, working in the low-income neighborhoods of this coastal city in Kenya. They run three homes for children: the Grandsons of Abraham Rescue Centre, Bakitah Girls Rescue Centre, and the Shanzu Orphanage. The Grandsons of Abraham Centre rescues, rehabilitates and educates boys who have lived in …
For Safina, going to school every day was far from the reality she grew up with. Her mom was a single parent who struggled to provide four children with enough to eat, let alone enough money to pay school fees. Teachers, seeing she couldn’t pay, would send Safina home. She often missed school for weeks …
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In a way, says Father Patrick Cosgrove, Corpus Christi has always been part of Chalice’s making. “It was there in naissance, in our very name,” he shared in an interview. Corpus Christi, also known as the feast of the Body and Blood of Christ, is something Chalice supporters have been hearing a lot about, whether …
