Borehole drilling for Nyawita school, Asembo, Kenya
- Category: Community Projects
Project Location: Asembo, Kenya
Project Code: CP-KAL0722
Nyawita is an elementary school in a rural agricultural area in the far eastern corner of Kenya. The Franciscan Sisters of St. Anna, who run Chalice’s Asembo sponsor site, opened the school with the dream of bringing quality education to this remote and underserved community. On the same property, the Sisters also launched a high school for the visually impaired. There are 200 sponsored children in the community.
Art and Cultural education for sponsored children, Chiclayo, Peru
- Category: Community Projects
Project Location: Chiclayo, Peru
Project Code: HDP-PCC1023
Teens in Peru are battling on many fronts. Still reeling from the devastating loss of life and social isolation in the pandemic, their grades, mental health, and relationships have all suffered. The Chiclayo site staff have seen a marked increase in school dropouts, anxiety, and depression.
Support for Five Child and Elder Care Homes, Mombasa, Kenya
- Category: Community Projects
Project Location: Mombasa, Kenya
Project Code: HDPKMM0424
Our Mombasa sponsor site is run by the Sisters of St. Joseph, whose scope of ministry is vast. They serve their coastal city’s most vulnerable members, providing shelter, food, education, and loving care to hundreds of children, teens, and elders whose families cannot provide for them.
Kuukyeliyiri School Kitchen, Wa, Ghana
- Category: Community Projects
Project Location: Wa, Ghana
Project Code: CP-GWW0523
In 1994, a remote community in northern Ghana had a dream of opening a Catholic primary school for the area’s children. Led by a trailblazer known to all as ‘Mr. Luke’, the school opened with a total of eleven students – nine boys and two girls. For six years, they met under trees. In 2000, they built a six-unit classroom block.
San Carlos Roof Repair, PENNT, Bolivia
- Category: Community Projects
Project Location: PENNT, Bolivia
Project Code: CP-BPE0124
The Parroquia San Carlos Borromeo (St Charles Borromeo Parish) is the nerve centre of their community in Cochabamba, Bolivia.
Mental Health Support for Children and Youth in Asembo, Kenya
- Category: Community Projects
Project Location: Asembo
Project Code: HDPKAA0124
The sponsor site staff in our Asembo site see an alarming deterioration of mental health in their rural Kenyan region. They can see that children and teens are incredibly stressed at school and at home and might not have the right outlets. They get the ‘weekend blues’ and don’t know who they can talk to.
Bangalore Houses with Toilets (15), India
- Category: Community Projects
Project Location: Bangalore
Project Code: CPIBG1023
The communities of Bangalore, Bellary, Manvi, Chamarajanagar, and Wayanad struggle with a widespread issue: inadequate housing and sanitation facilities.
Baseco Feeding Program, Tondo, Philippines
- Category: Community Projects
Project Location: Tondo, Philippines
Project Code: HDPPTT1023
Baseco is district within Chalice’s Tondo sponsor site. Our site is managed by Bless the Children Foundation based in Manila. The organization is deeply involved with impoverished and stigmatized mothers and children of Tondo and Baseco.
