Kids Club Graduation
Casa Chirilagua is happy to announce the graduation of its 5th class of 5th graders on June 5th. The parents are enthusiastically preparing a special celebration including a traditional meal with music, suits and dresses, letters to their graduating children and a...meet gladys, one of our three local leaders!
The Casa Chiri community is excited to welcome Gladys Monroy as our newest local leader joining the Casa team. Our Local Leaders invest in children from the Chirilagua community while gaining job experience through their part-time position as a Kids Club Assistant....A New First for Casa: Family Dinner Night!
While Kids Club students took to the Pumpkin Patch, their parents met for their monthly meeting, and a GCCC small group prepared the first of this year’s monthly family dinners! Initially, the community conceived the Family Dinners as a chance for families to enjoy...Adventures in Leadership-Kid’s Club Visits the Pumpkin Patch
The phrase “pushed out of the nest” usually does not conjure up the image of a pumpkin patch with thirty five kids and fifteen volunteers in tow. To be fair though, the three local leaders required little to no pushing two Fridays ago as they embarked upon their...Park Peeking
This school year has featured a lot of indoor play. “How long have we been waiting for the park to be finished?” a fourth-grader asked me one day while waiting for other buses to arrive. I counted quickly on my fingers. “Six months,” I said. “We’ve had...
We are a community of people “learning together to love our neighbors as ourselves” in a Latino neighborhood in Alexandria, Virginia.
As a faith-based Christian non-profit with a small staff and over 100 volunteers, we serve alongside more than 100 families and their children (1st-12th grades) each week through our community programs.