Give Now and Your Donation Will be Matched Dollar for Dollar! Thanks to a very generous Chacocente supporter, every dollar donated, up to $5,000 will be matched for the next two weeks. Your $50 donation becomes $100, and a $500 donation becomes $1,000. All funds will be used to provide healthy meals to the students of...
Things aren’t always as they seem. Take education. The Nicaraguan government offers free education to all its citizens. Yet UNICEF estimates that only 55% of students complete primary school and move on to secondary school. The education and data source FHI 360 (www.epdc.org ) reports that 39% of secondary school age females and 47% of males...
What is the 13th month? Common throughout Central America, including Nicaragua, is a labor law requiring employers to pay an annual bonus of an extra month’s salary to each employee. Known as the 13th month, the amount is equal to the salary earned during November. It is due to employees by December 5th. What does this mean...
And we know that in all things God works for the good of those who love him who have been called according to his purpose. Romans 8:28 Celebrate “Back to School in the States” by helping us to meet a Match Challenge! Three very generous Project Chacocente supporters have pledged $8,500 in matching funds. That means...
Download Printable Version Jossimar Barajona Places 2nd at Poetry Nationals Jossimar Barajona Places 2nd at Poetry Nationals Jossimar Barajona, a senior at the Chacocente Christian School, strutted and gestured her way through 17 stanzas – yes, memorized – of a Rubén Darío poem and took second place at the national poetry competition in July. Darío, as you...
Project Chacocente T-shirts are now available for purchase. Thanks to all our talented supporters who submitted designs for our T-shirt fundraiser! Entries were sent to Nicaragua where the high school students at Chacocente Christian School chose the winner. Many thanks to Brennon Thompson for his creative design! All funds raised will support the school library. Our...
Looking for a unique graduation or wedding gift? We are very pleased to announce that you can now purchase the beautifully handcrafted hammocks made by the women of Project Chacocente online! A very generous supporter has donated his time, business wisdom and passion for this ministry to create www.NicaSwings.com Daily life in poverty-stricken Nicaragua remains a...
Download Printable Version Practice Makes Perfect The Senior and Junior CCS boys basketball teams have started training for the annual countrywide competition. Here the Seniors play a “friendly” game with students from the Salesian School of Masaya. Girls Dazzle Opponents, Boys Look Solid in Major Regional Tourney The CCS girls “took their opponents to school” recently as they claimed second place in a...
Dear Friends of Project Chacocente: Thank you so much for your continuing support of Project Chacocente! Your support is truly making a difference in the WHOLE lives of the children, the families of Project Chacocente, and the families in the surrounding communities. People in Nicaragua are beginning to refer to the project and the surrounding area...
Dear Project Chacocente Family, We thank you all for your prayers, presence, gifts and service on behalf of Project Chacocente. Knit together by the love of God, we are the Chacocente “family” of Spirit-filled people, eager to please Him in whom we live and move and have our being. God continues to call each of us,...