Category Archives: Kenya

25 and Rising

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Your sponsorship can become the steady encouragement that helps them keep climbing.

Blessed by sponsorship

Maurine will remember the moment she graduated from university, a moment she never thought would come. As she stands proud in her cap and gown, she is overflowing with gratitude for her loving and supportive sponsors who believed in her. Without sponsorship, opportunities like this may not have been within reach. Maurine grew up in […]

Hope and Harvesting

This time of year, families are gathering for meals and bringing homegrown food to the table. Our families in Kenya are experiencing joy in doing the same, our Mikinduri site launched its kitchen garden project to help promote healthy eating and to help families to diversify their diets.   Thanks to the generosity of Chalice’s Lunch […]

International Day of Older Persons! Supporting the generation that shaped us

Today, we celebrate and recognize the special elders in our lives, those who have offered guidance, support, and strength to people and communities. While many older adults continue to thrive, others face more difficult circumstances. Our Mombasa sponsor site in Kenya is home to many vulnerable elderly people and people living with chronic diseases, which […]

To Madrine, nursing was more than just a job

Madrine had her heart set on becoming a nurse one day. She studied diligently, and she had excellent academic performance, but her dream felt out of reach without the means to support her education.  Madrine grew up with her parents and two siblings in a town a little north of Nairobi, Kenya. Her parents, Purity […]

Lunch Buddies tackle hunger together

Living in a region like Kamuwongo, Kenya where little rain falls and temperatures are high, can be challenging. The staff and Franciscan Clarist Sisters, who run Chalice’s Mercy Care sponsor site, work to support the families, who mainly rely on farms for their food and income.  “Due to the dry climate orchestrated by low rainfall […]

Joyce’s Journey from Poverty to Promise

Meet the trailblazer from rural Kenya who became her family’s first university graduate. Joyce looks around her village – even her own family – and knows she was granted an extraordinary opportunity. The fifth of her parents seven children, Joyce grew up in a tiny community in Kitui county, where Chalice’s Mercy Care site is […]

Faith and community changed a father’s – and family’s – destiny

Francis is a devoted dad in our Mikinduri sponsor site in Kenya

Francis is a devoted dad in our Mikinduri sponsor site in Kenya. One of twelve, Francis never had the chance to go to school. He married Elizabeth in his thirties, and they had five children together. Tragically, Elizabeth died when their fifth child, Florida, was only two months old. Francis is a devoted dad in […]