Category Archives: Asia

From School Lunches to Big Dreams: Where They Are Now

India graduation

Nabisa’s 12-Year Journey From the third grade to graduating with her Bachelor of Commerce, Nabisa is proof that perseverance, an unwavering focus on education, and the generosity of sponsors like you can make dreams come true. Nabisa’s family, from our Bangalore, India site, faced immense financial challenges. Raised by a single mother alongside her two […]

Celebrating the True Meaning of Christmas in Bangalore

Sometimes the best Christmas gift is just giving love and joy without expecting anything in return. That’s what Anto Mercy, a Grade 6 student in LR. Nagar, India and her family did last Christmas. The family has lived in LR. Nagar, in our Bangalore site, an extremely impoverished community in India, for 30 years. Anto […]

Constructing Dreams: The Journey of India’s Next Woman in Engineering

A graduate from India

Ten years in the making, Mamatha’s dream is unfolding like a master blueprint coming to life. After successfully earning her Diploma in Civil Engineering, she now stands at the threshold of her grandest design yet — an acceptance letter into the bachelor’s program for Civil Engineering. This pivotal next step exemplifies why we celebrate the […]

Femur Fracture: A Student’s Fight to Walk Again Tamil Nadu, India

Funding request: $2,020.07 CAD Critical Need: CN-ITK0426 Annai Mukilan is a young student with bright dreams and a deep sense of responsibility toward his family. Pursuing his studies in engineering, he balances academics with helping at home, quietly working toward a future where he can uplift those he loves. One ordinary day, while carrying out […]

A Mother’s Final Battle with TB Meningitis Tondo, Philippines

Funding request: $1,939.14 CAD Critical Need: CN-PTT0326 Leonora was a woman who filled her home with warmth, music, and care. She loved to sing and cook, preparing meals that brought her family together. Despite modest means, she found joy in nurturing those around her—her husband, who is visually impaired, her children, and her young granddaughter […]

A source of hope, encouragement, and empowerment for women in Juakali

A women and and her mother as they receive sewing machine

In Juakali, Kenya, 19 women are transforming their futures through vocational training made possible by your Chalice’s generous donors. Through knitting, tailoring, and crochet skills development at the Baraka site, participants are gaining sustainable, income-generating skills that foster financial independence and community growth. This women’s empowerment initiative reflects the true impact of donor generosity—creating hope, strengthening families, and building long-term self-sufficiency in vulnerable communities.

The compassion of the Samaritan: loving by bearing another’s pain

Yesudas with his fathe

Founded by Pope John Paul II in 1992, the World Day of the Sick is a day called to prayer, spiritual closeness, and reflection for the entire Church and for civil society, who are all called to recognize the face of Christ in our sick and vulnerable brothers and sisters. This year’s theme – The […]