Another wonderful success story! David Arellano has completed all 13 levels of English at Universidad Centro Americana in Managua. To take this course, David had to devote many hours to study and many more to travel to and from Managua. David is in his final year of high school and hopes to attend college soon after. Thanks to Gabriel for always encouraging the children of Chacocente!

These photos just in from School Director Don Ervin!

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A small but enthusiastic group began the year by visiting Project Chacocente. Among them were two previous long-term volunteers, one current Board of Directors member and one previous member, one supporter visiting for his fifth time and one first time visitor. Two visitors from John Wesley UMC in Houston joined the group for two days. The youth of this generous church are planning a June mission trip to the project.

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Chacocente Christian School is just beginning the 2013 school year…but only after graduating several students at the end of 2012! There were ten preschool boys and girls that matriculated into the elementary grades. Eulises is from Project Chacocente, and the other preschoolers were from the local area surrounding the Project.

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My name is Carolyn Vespa and I am currently a junior at Wake Forest University studying Mathematical Business and German. During my junior year of high school, I traveled to Managua, Nicaragua with a group of about 60 students from my church. As we worked at Project Chacocente throughout the week, my eyes continued to be open to the difference that I could help make in these people’s lives. The one thing that stuck with me was that although I made a difference during that week, the real difference I could make was bringing what I had learned home.

During my freshman year at Wake Forest, I quickly realized that I had the chance to introduce Project Chacocente to a large number of people that had never heard of it before. I started by recruiting a small group of my friends to become involved and then before I knew it, we had a group of 30-40 students involved. I worked with three other students to contact various professors on campus to find out more about Wake’s current efforts in Nicaragua. We quickly found that Wake had a large involvement in Nicaragua; however none of these groups were easily accessible or linked together. After finding this weakness in the current programs, we created a group called Nicaragua Nexus, which links together all the Wake Forest Nicaragua efforts and chooses various projects in Nicaragua to focus on. Currently, we will be focusing on Project Chacocente. We hope to continue to raise awareness of Project Chacocente through various events on campus. Our largest event will be NicaColor, which will be held in the fall of 2013. This event will be a 5K race where participants will have paint of various colors thrown at them during each half-mile marker. Additionally, we will be holding other smaller events including a clothing drive, selling chocolate during finals week, and holding various culture events to inform students of the current state of Nicaragua and Project Chacocente. For questions please contact me, Carolyn Vespa at vespcm0@wfu.edu.

There were ten very happy little girls when they each received a new dress! Hand sewn by a circle of talented seamstresses, the dresses were “sponsored” by members of Asbury First UMC in Rochester, NY and delivered to the project by board member Robyn Gage and her daughter, Mary.
Row 1, left to right – Eveling, Experanzita (“Tita”), Alinson, Chelsea
Row 2 - Mary Gage, Eva, Katherine, Andrea, Alinson, Tatiana, Nohelia, Robyn Gage

We believe one of the most powerful tools we have is prayer. In the hope of uniting supporters sharing that belief, we are forming a list of prayer partners willing to set aside time each day to pray for specific needs of the project. Cheryl Thompson, Asbury First UMC member and PC supporter, will coordinate this effort. If you believe in God’s promise of “Ask and it shall be given to you”, we invite you to join our team to pray for the ministry of Project Chacocente! Email projectchacocente@gmail.com to sign up and to receive periodic prayer requests and updates.

Project Chacocente Needs Your Help! We have posted a list of items needed the Project Chacocente School. Please take a look at the list and let us know if you have any of these items to send.

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