Relocating to Project Chacocente from the Managua dump in 2006, Rodolfo, Jazmina, and their six children have worked hard to survive. Although they came to the Project after the original families in 2003, the story of their arrival and struggle is worth telling. Regardless of when they arrived at the Project, all of the families of...
School will start at Project Chacocente on February 2nd. We have been given a challenge by an anonymous donor and they will match up to $2500. $2500 will buy 5,000 lunches and you can help us get another 5,000 lunches with the match! This is the only balanced meal some children receive all day. Help...
Our goal is for each of the 150 children attending Chacocente Christian School to be sponsored. Mary Beth, Sponsorship Coordinator, is happy to help! She donates countless hours pairing the students with caring sponsors and provides opportunities for contact that helps build a lasting relationship between the two. To do this, she obtains brief biographies...
Dear Chacocente Supporter, Please join us in supporting Project Chacocente on Give Back Tuesday! It has been a year of wonders for the families of the Project and the students of Chacocente Christian School! In January the families were presented the long awaited deeds to their property by Founder Cheryl Avery. Overcoming hunger, malnutrition and homelessness, they...
What is the 13th month? Common throughout Central American, 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 in November. It is due to the employees by December 5th. What does this...
Many of your favorite students from the Chacocente Christian School posed as tiny professionals to help us make this calendar for 2015. Called “Because of You, We Can Dream” the calendar shows the children as the professionals they can become, if only they get a solid education. A fundraiser for the school, the calendar is...
Friends, chocolate and a very good cause – put them all together and you have “Chocolate for Chacocente”! Two Rochester, NY churches have been doing variations of this fundraiser for years. Chacocente supporters from Asbury First UMC gather at one another’s homes to melt dark, milk and white chocolate wafers, mold them into bunnies, chicks...