Chalice Children Nutrition, Cañete, Peru
- Category: Community Projects
Location: San Vicente de Cañete
Project Code: HDP PCS0622
Chalice has been partnering with the Sisters of Santa Ana to run our Cañete sponsor site since 2008. The site staff work with sponsored children and sponsored elderly in the city of Cañete, Peru.
Nutrition Support for Sponsored Families, Pochaiv, Ukraine
- Category: Community Projects
Project Location: Volyn and Ivano-Frankisvsk
Project Code: HDP UPP0422
Due to the war, Ukraine is facing a serious rise in food prices this year; staple items have doubled or even tripled in price.
Nutrition Program, Samar site, Philippines
- Category: Community Projects
Project Location: Laoang, Philippines
Project Code: HDP PSL0522
The Samar sponsor site, with Chalice support, is running a supplementary feeding program in the elementary school, serving 430 nutritionally vulnerable kindergarten and elementary students. Chalice has been partnering with the Bethlehem House of Bread in Bulacan since 1999.
Offline eLearning for Chalice Sites in Kenya
- Category: Community Projects
Project Location: Meru, Mikinduri, Nairobi, Saidia, Mombasa
Project Code: HDP AEK0422
Even though there are many educational resources online, schools in the rural communities where Chalice works cannot access them. Five sites in Kenya have created a one-year program that will provide the students and teachers with access to free digital educational content in places where there is no internet.
School Feeding Program, Haiti South
- Category: Community Projects
Project Location: Haiti South
Project Code: HDP HSS0422
The primary and growing concern facing Haiti’s southern region since the earthquake is food insecurity. Chalice has been working in the communities on Haiti’s southern tip since 2000, currently partnering with Missionnaires de l’Annonciation - Semeurs d’Espoir, an organization led by a religious Sister and staffed by religious brothers/lay associates.
Shea Butter Womens Centre, Wa site, Ghana
- Category: Community Projects
Project Location: Wa, Ghana
Project Code: CP GWW0322
The Wa site equips parents of sponsored children with skills and resources to create their own economic opportunities and raise their income level. One natural resource in their area is an appealing and profitable business opportunity: shea butter. Chalice has been partnering with the White Fathers and the Diocese of Wa and Lassia Tuolu Parish since 1997.
Responsible Parenting and Happy Family Program
- Category: Community Projects
Project Location: Ternopil site, Ukraine
Project Code: HDP UTT0422
Families in Ukraine are facing unprecedented social, economic, and humanitarian challenges.
St. Joseph’s Classes & Staffroom Renovations, Meru site, Kenya
- Category: Community Projects
Project Location: Meru site, Kenya
Project Code: CP KMT0521
Eight of the nine classrooms at St. Joseph's High School are in deplorable condition.
Adult literacy program, Mombasa site, Kenya
- Category: Community Projects
Project Location: Mombasa site, Kenya
Project Code: HDP KMK0921
The site staff have created a program to increase the level of literacy in Kikambala, with an aim to reducing poverty and empowering elder adults to be leaders in their community.
Tamil Construction of New Houses (35)
- Category: Community Projects
Project Location: Tamil site, India
Project Code: CP ITT0622
Continuing the success of our 2021 housing project in the Tamil site, which completed 31 family homes, this project will assist another 35 families with a new home.
Nutrition Program – Tondo, Philippines
- Category: Community Projects
Project Location: Manila, Philippines
Project Code: HDP PTB0522
At the height of the pandemic, the Tondo site ‘adopted’ a community in Manila called Baseco, because the site staff knew that the children were suffering from hunger and would not receive other supports.
Pochaiv Heating Assistance for Sponsored Families
- Category: Community Projects
Project Location: Pochaiv, Ukraine
Project Code: CP UPP0422B
Our Pochaiv sponsor site have identified 95 families in their site area who will not be able to heat their homes this winter without financial assistance.
Ternopil Heating Assistance for Sponsored Families
- Category: Community Projects
Project Location: Ternopil, Ukraine
Project Code: CP UTT0422B
Chalice has partnered with the non-profit World of Children since 1998. The Ternopil site serves underprivileged families in 17 areas around the region, as well as a boarding school.
Polyfunctional Court with Cover ASDC, Bolivia
- Category: Community Projects
Project Location: Cochabamba, Bolivia
Project Code: CP BAA0422
Asociación de Síndrome de Down Cochabamba (Down Syndrome Association of Cochabamba) is a support centre for children, youth, and young adults with Down syndrome. Thanks to sponsorship, the site provides physiotherapy, rehabilitation, vision, speech, and music therapy for the children.
Boys Hostel, St. Xavier Secondary School
- Category: Community Projects
Project Location: Mkongo, Tanzania
Project Code: TNS1020
After seeing the significant improvement in the girls’ results after the construction of their hostel, the Neema site is preparing to construct one for the boys too.
African school farming and food security project
- Category: Community Projects
Project Location: Various sites, Africa
Project Type: Education, Self-Reliance, Community Development
Project Code: GTZ0321
Background: In the African communities where Chalice serves, small-scale farming is a way of life. However, for many families of sponsored children, their farms do not produce harvests that can sustain after their peak periods, leading to food insecurity most of the year. Read our report outlining our plans and goals for this project: Planting a seed - A definitive guide to the development of Chalice's sustainable farming projects in Africa.
