A Milestone Grand Opening
Dancing, music, tamales, pupusas, words of gratitude and congratulations filled the air as over three hundred of our friends, families, and community leaders joined in celebrating a great milestone for Casa Chirilagua: the grand opening of our new community...GRAND OPENING 4/1!
Come celebrate the sweetness of our community’s new home! ¡Venga y celebre con nosotros la dulcera de nuestro nuevo hogar! After years of prayer, planning and preparing our community finally has a new home! Let’s celebrate together on April 1st. Tour the...Casa’s Amazon Smile
Would you like to help Casa Chirilagua when you shop on Amazon? Use our Amazon Smile link when you shop and we’ll automatically receive a percentage of your purchase amount as a donation from Amazon!When a Child is Brave and Courageous
This is not Andres’* typical Saturday morning. The alarm goes off very early. Waking up his first thought is that it must be a school day—it’s usually what happens when the alarm goes off this early. But his mom reminds him this is no school day. This is the day he...Who Inspires You?
Kids Club student a winner of MLK Day drawing contest! In honor of Martin Luther King, Jr. Day students at Mount Vernon participated in a drawing contest with the prompt “Who inspires you?” When he heard this question, 5th grader Carlos* knew immediately...
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.