Chalice Canada

Chalice Canada

Founder	Fr. Patrick Cosgrove
Founded at	Springhill
Type	A Catholic charity
Purpose	To help with sponsoring children, community projects, and family support in developing countries
Headquarters	Canada
Location	Bedford, NS
Website	http://www.chalice.ca/

About Chalice

Chalice is a registered Catholic charity that supports child development, family, and community in developing countries. Chalice currently works in 15 different countries at numerous sponsor sites. Chalice’s core program is child sponsorship, which provides children with proper care and access to education. Chalice currently has over 50,000 children and some elderly registered in its sponsorship program. Chalice also funds a number of community development projects to improve community sustainability. Chalice commits 90 percent of its spending in support of programs. In the fiscal year of 2016-2017, $28,685,953 million was spent directly on programs providing support to thousands of people in need around the world.

History

The history of Chalice began with the Christian Foundation for Children and Aging (CFCA,) founded in 1981 Kansas City by Jim, Bud and Bob Hentzen with their sister Nadine Pierce and friend Jerry Tolle. The CFCA expanded to two offices with the main office in Kansas and the other in Florida. As the organization developed, it eventually expanded to Canada.

In January 1993, Fr. Patrick Cosgrove, Parish Priest in Springhill, N.S. joined CFCA because of his interest in child sponsorship after watching an advertisement by World Vision. He learned about CFCA through a friend and travelled to Kansas to meet one of the original founders. Once he got back from his trip, he was asked to join the CFCA Canada board of directors.

In 1996, the CFCA name was changed to Christian Child Care International (CCCI) after the original founders retired.This name change began their mission of trying to find new sponsor sites as CCCI, and found five to begin working with. As the years went by, CCCI opened sponsor sites in different areas of the world such as the Ukraine. Some, however, did not remain open due to lack of staff and poor communication.

Over time, CCCI evolved to become what it is today. In 2007, CCCI was officially renamed to Chalice Canada, also known as Chalice. Chalice departed from its original partnership with CFCA, and sponsors were either offered a new child through Chalice, or could keep sponsoring their original child. Chalice’s head office is based in Nova Scotia,Canada. Chalice opened its first official office in Springhill, and later moved to Lower Sackville. They moved once more to accommodate their rapid growth, and currently work out of Bedford, Nova Scotia.

Smaller changes also made Chalice the organization it is today. During the years, Chalice gained the help of volunteers from the community, parishes, schools, and family members. Chalice has also added a prayer ministry, computer system, gift catalogues, and other marketing and organizational materials. Chalice has considerably grown their sponsorship program by opening new sponsor sites, and supports a number of community development projects. In 2015, Chalice was recognized for being a Best Christian Workplace Institute, and has been recognized as a top rated Canadian charity in MoneySense magazine for the past eight years.

Where Chalice works

In 15 Developing Countries

• The Philippines
• India
• Zambia
• Ghana
• Cameroon
• Tanzania
• Peru
• Paraguay
• Chile
• Bolivia
• Bangladesh
• Ukraine
• Haiti
• Kenya
• Guatemala

Community Projects

School Support & Family Development Program, Peru

This School Support and Family Development Program began in Peru. In urban areas 20% of the population lives in poverty and in rural areas the poverty level is 54%. The Centro Esperanza (The Hope Center) with its partner site helps to support the development in Peru with health, nutrition and education. The program aims to aid parents (mostly women), children aged 8-12 years and adolescents between the ages of 13 and 18.

Kenya and Tanzania School Farming Project

This Kenya and Tanzania school farming project provides agriculture for living such as good soils, and favorable climate conditions. It was designed and developed to promote and encourage the use of the necessities for agriculture in order to produce food and further develop the community by making them more independent as individuals.The Statistics show during the three year program that over 3,500 households were trained in, and adopted, new and proven agricultural technologies for improved food production. In addition, there are now 32 schools that have sustained school feeding programs from proceeds achieved in school farms. The goal of this project was to increase food security and livelihood development for households.

WASH ( Water, Sanitation, and hygiene), India

The WASH program began because of billions of people in India that do not have access to clean toilets which results in poor health. About 55% of the population in India defecate in open areas which is a high risk factor involving microbial contamination such as bacteria, viruses and amoeba getting into the water. In India, diarrhea alone accounts for the death of 535,000 children under the age of five and is one of the major health conditions that impacts school-aged children. In addition, to proper toilets, there is a risk of security for women and girls who do not have access to appropriate toilets that results in young girls, especially, not being able to attend school. The purpose of this program was to provide education to the community about personal and environmental hygiene along with with the construction of proper sanitation facilities in order to fight the spread of disease.

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