KabarA Challenge 2024
June 1 - August 31

Why do we celebrate anniversaries?

An anniversary marks the passing of a special event. We take time to reflect on its importance and the memories associated with it. This year marks the 10th anniversary of the KabarA Challenge. Traditionally, the 10th anniversary is associated with the materials tin and aluminum. Tin represents strength and resilience, while aluminum symbolizes flexibility and adaptability. These attributes are needed to keep an appeal such as the KabarA Challenge strong. We have, and continue to, rely on your strength and resilience in handling difficult times while keeping the Brothers in your hearts. Meeting the difficult times over the span of a decade requires flexibility and adaptability. Just as the Brothers displayed these characteristics in fulfilling their mission, you have displayed them in your unwavering support throughout their lives.

Anniversary celebrations allow us to reaffirm and strengthen our bonds. They are a way to express gratitude, appreciation, and love. Over the last decade, the Brothers have trusted us to care for them in their retirement years, just as we trusted them to teach us or our children. There is no bond greater or more sacred than that of trust. Our ten-year anniversary affirms that bond between ourselves and the senior Brothers who have dedicated their lives to the education of young people - to teaching their minds and touching their hearts.

Anniversaries build a sense of continuity, stability, and connection. Over the past decade, our senior Brothers have known and felt the safety and security of your kindness, generosity, and compassion. For ten years now, we have continued this connection, made it strong and stable. Just as they have spent their lived in dedication to the Lasallian mission, with each passing year your dedication has remained a rock on which they could stand in strength.

In anniversary celebrations we gather with family, friends, or colleagues. These gatherings foster a feeling of community and create opportunities to share memories. We may not be able to gather physically, but as a Lasallian community, we gather in solidarity and compassion in our care for our senior Brothers, and for each other.

A ten-year anniversary reminds us of our own personal growth, perseverance, and achievements. We reflect on the start of our journey together, and we see the good we have done and continue to do. Your generosity has motivated us to set new goals each and every year. And through your care, that sacred trust, together we have met every one. Your support has inspired us to set a new and ambitious goal of raising $500,000 in celebration of this 10th anniversary, and because the needs of these fine men necessitate it. We have faith that we will meet this goal together, just as we have every goal in the past decade.

The KabarA Challenge was created as one way to ensure that the Brothers who taught, cared for, and served us can retire with the safety, health, and dignity that they deserve. They gave their careers, their lives, to caring for others. For ten years now, you have given of yourselves to ensure their smooth transition into this new phase of life and service. Your dedication has been admirable, your strength considerable, and your perseverance undeniable. Together, we can meet any goal.

Please join us in maintaining the quality of care, the quality of life, the safety, and the dignity of our senior Brothers by participating in the KabarA Challenge. The impact of your gift, up to $5,000, will be doubled, allowing us to provide even more for our retiring Brothers.

Thank you for your generosity and thank you for remembering our senior Brothers through the 2024 KabarA Challenge.

Live Jesus in our hearts. Forever.