Rima is one smiley girl! Growing up near our Assam site in India, her parents were thrilled when she, the fourth child in their family, was born.
As time went on, though, it became clear something was off.
Continue reading “Rima’s Hearing Loss is No Match For Her Dancing Skills”
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 her four siblings near our Yapacani site in Bolivia. Times were tough. Her mother oversaw their education, but with the whole family living in just a rented room, there wasn’t much room to grow.
Then a neighbour told the family about the Chalice sponsorship program.
At the time, they were in a dire economic state. Noemi’s mother quickly approached Chalice’s local office, and enrolled Noemi in the sponsorship program. Noemi was 11 at the time.
With the help of her generous sponsor, she finished high school with great grades, before moving on to beauty school. University, and becoming a doctor, is her next target.
“It has been 9 years since Chalice financially supports me with food, school supplies…” Noemi writes.
“I am very grateful to my sponsor for the huge support that she continues to give me and for supporting me to make my dreams come true.”
Noemi has become an example for others in her community, and loves sharing her experience with the sponsorship program.
“Chalice is truly a family of people who help children, youth and the elderly, so I thank God and pray for all those people who make it possible for the project to continue,” she writes.
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When sponsored child Sameera was just 10 months old, her parents knew something was off.
Continue reading “Sameera Hears With Help from Chalice Supporters”
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 dangerous and precarious situations on the streets of Mombasa.
The Centre desperately needed qualified case workers to support the boys, but the money to pay salaries wasn’t there.
As they say: when one door closes, another one opens.
With the help of the Chalice sponsorship program and the hand of God, that’s a truth Arockiya now sees clearly.
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 at a time.
Continue reading “Sponsorship Makes Safina’s Dreams Come True”
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 that’s on social media, in our newsletter, or our podcast, Stories from the Table.
Chalice has chosen Corpus Christi weekend, June 18-19, as the new date for most of its child sponsorship appeals in parishes. Child sponsorship appeals are when a deacon or priest gives a talk about Chalice at Mass. The church holding the appeal is sent booklets of children available for sponsorship, which are displayed in a prominent place on the day of the appeal.
But why Corpus Christi?
In parts of Canada and the U.S., rainfall is so common, it’s almost a nuisance. We grumble as we walk home in the rain, or complain off-handedly to our colleagues about the commute to work.
It’s tempting to forget that in many parts of the world, rain isn’t a nuisance – it’s life.
Kenyans have dealt with ongoing drought over the past several years, and Chalice’s Mombasa site was no exception.
Continue reading “How Chalice Supporters Alleviated Drought in Kenya”
If someone ever gifts you a goat and a few chickens, and you’re not sure what to do, just ask Virgil and Shirley.
On a Chalice medical mission trip to Tanzania circa 2013, they found themselves in this exact scenario.
Continue reading “Virgil and Shirley Share Their Love in Action”
Calling All Foodies: Chalice Cooks Up Love in the Kitchen
May 16, 2022
Bedford, Nova Scotia, Canada –
Chalice, a Catholic international development and aid charity, is inviting foodies around the world to pull out their chef’s hat and roll up their sleeves at Love in the Kitchen this June.
Taking place June 18-19, Love in the Kitchen is a free online cooking and theology conference. Featuring 20+ Catholic speakers, they’ll share their insights into how our spirits connect to our stomachs.
Speakers will present on a wide spread of topics, including cooking, baking, body image, wine, and mixology – and how they connect to theology.
The pièce de résistance: Saturday night, a free, live cooking class with renowned Catholic chef Fr. Leo Patalinghug of Plating Grace Ministries.
Continue reading “Media Release: Chalice Cooks Up Love in the Kitchen”
