Much has changed since Chalice staff first met Hilary. At the time, he was a four-year-old scamp who liked playing hide-and-seek with his sister, Jeniffer. They lived with their mother, Josphine, in a one-room mud house. Now twenty, and pursuing college, Hilary is contemplative about his childhood. “I am a kid raised by a single […]
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“Since she was little,” says Don Bosco site worker Antonio, “Jacqueline has stood out, at school and at home, with her hands as a drawing artist.” Jacqueline grew up with her mother, Isabel, and two brothers. They live in a community where our Don Bosco sponsor site works. Our partners are a Salesian initiative; the […]
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Ruth hails from a hilly, cool-climate region of western Kenya, known for its tea plantations. She and her three little brothers came into their grandmother, Hellen’s, care after their mother died in 2018. Hellen always wanted her grandchildren to succeed in school, but there were many barriers. In Kenya, education until high school is considered […]
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When Kim was asked to paint an image of ‘sponsorship,’ his mind filled with vibrant, joyous images. “The hot air balloon is the representation of Chalice for me,” says the 16-year-old artist. “It symbolizes hope, journey, love, and being light and free.” Kim was sponsored through our Tondo site in the Philippines when he was […]
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“Peace of our Lord Jesus remain to you all,” says 16-year-old Jozantha. Jozantha was sponsored in February 2023, when she was in grade nine at a Catholic high school in Goa, India. “Right from the beginning, I was very excited,” she says. Now she gets to attend after-school social activities with other sponsored children and […]
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Victoria grew up with her parents, Natalia and Viktor, and two brothers. When she was just starting kindergarten, she was chosen by a Chalice sponsor, through our Pochaiv, Ukraine site. The sponsorship came at the perfect time. “At that time, her large family was going through very difficult times,” says Pochaiv staff. Natalia needed to […]
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For Maximus, sponsorship is about family. He came to live at the Foyer Ecologique Pierre Salvetti orphanage, in Haiti, when he was nine years old. When he met Fr. Charles and the Sisters and staff at the orphanage, for the first time he met adults he could rely on. “His life changed since he came […]
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Today, Shove Tuesday, is known as Pancake Tuesday in North America and many countries around the world, including many countries where Chalice works – but each with its own regional twist! In our Goa site on the western coast of India, they call it Pancake Tuesday, too, or in the Konkani language, “Alle Belle […]
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From its very roots, the Catholic church has sought to fight against human captivity – what in the modern world, we call human trafficking. “It is a sin against the dignity of persons and their fundamental rights to reduce them by violence to their productive value or to a source of profit,” says the Catechism […]
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Evelina is Nataliya’s whole world. “I devoted my life to supporting my only and most precious child,” she says. When Nataliya learned her daughter had cerebral palsy, she resolved that no diagnosis would hold her back. She, along with a dedicated team of teachers and the Ternopil sponsor site staff, have seen Evelina grow into […]