Strong values, emotional awareness, and leadership abilities are developing in a young child – Jorge. Thanks to the Grow program offered in our Chiclayo site, Jorge participated in the “Regional Assembly of Children and Adolescents.”
Category Archives: Latin America
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Mar
Mar
This time, we’re sharing our top 5 ‘Ways to Celebrate’ Spring is here at last! The warmer months bring many reasons to celebrate and share gifts with our friends and loved ones. Chalice’s gift catalogue is your best place to find gifts for the baby showers, Baptisms, weddings, birthdays, and graduations you have on your […]
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Feb
Feb
Alfajores are a beloved dessert in Peru. Two light and flaky cookies filled with dulce de leche, or a traditional blancmange cream, or both! You’ll need a rolling pin and a circular cookie cutter.
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Feb
Feb
The Cañete site in Peru runs the Santa Ana soup kitchen, which is attended daily by numerous children, teens, and adults. Most of them struggle with food insecurity and have signs of malnutrition and anemia.
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Dec
Dec
When Christmas comes, it seems that the whole world has a birthday,” writes the staff at our CMAVIL sponsor site in Paraguay. “In every house children and adults prepare the party: some set up a manger with a small child, others also decorate a tree with lights and stars. The streets and houses sparkle with […]
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Nov
Nov
At our PINIFE sponsor site in Peru, “Christmas is an important day for families, as they celebrate the birth of Jesus and have the Holy Family of Nazareth as their model,” describes the site staff. 2021’s celebrations centred around St. Joseph, as we came to the end of the special year dedicated to our universal […]
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Nov
Nov
The “Sagrado Corazón de Jesús” daycare is a splash of colour among the brown buildings of Cochabamba, Bolivia. The centre offers pre-school education and, importantly, nutritious snacks and meals daily, with support from Chalice’s nutrition program. For the littlest ones, trying new foods can be challenging. Fresh produce isn’t always easy for their parents to […]
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Oct
Oct
It feels like it snuck up on us, but we have reached the middle of October already! It may feel too early to think about Christmas, but at Chalice, now is the time to do a little planning ahead. Sponsors inquire with us about sending a gift of ‘special money’ to their children for a […]
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Jul
Jul
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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May
May
You know how it goes: you sponsor a child until they reach adulthood, and then they go off to have a successful career.