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Download Printable Version School Year Begins With New Directory and Sub Director The 2016 school year began in early February at Chacocente Christian School with 156 students eager to learn, play and grow. Fourteen of them are from Project Chacocente and 142 are from the surrounding

Thank you so much for your continuing support of Project Chacocente! Your support is truly making a difference in the 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 a

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 to

Download Printed Version $10K Matching Grant Kicks Off Funding of On-Campus Church Asbury First United Methodist Church of Rochester, NY has donated $10,000 in matching funds to encourage the construction of a church building at Project Chacocente. The Chacocente families have for yea

Download Printed Version Here Chacocente Supporter Donates $25,000 for Matching Funds An anonymous donor has offered a gift of $25,000 to use as matching funds for donations made throughout the summer. “This is an incredible gift” says Board President Robyn Gage, “so hope

Download Printed Version Here Families Receive the Deeds to Their Property I wish each of you could have been present January 7th as the families received the deeds to their property. In an emotional ceremony, Founder Cheryl Avery presented eight families with the rights to their hom

Chacocente Christian School Creates Student Marching Band One of CCS administration’s priorities for 2012 was to provide more extracurricular opportunities for the student body. Because students responded so well to participating in state sporting competitions this year, the administr

Self-Funding Is Becoming A Reality More than a year ago, in April 2004, the families planted 5,000 plantain seeds with the help of a crew from Castleton State College in Vermont. It was laborious and sweaty work. But where once we dug holes in the sweltering sun, we’re now harvesting

Extra! Extra! – Chacocente Celebrates its 2nd Birthday Project Chacocente celebrated its second birthday (Jan. 23) with several pieces of good news! Perhaps the most welcomed is that we are now a 501“(c)3” organization, meaning that all donations are now tax-deductible. The most