Project Chacocente

Nicaragua – In Pictures

Christ Church in Bethel Park, PA took over 50 of its youth members to Nicaragua in July, 2009. While there they visited the Managua City Dump…a horrific place that nearly 150 families call home. Project Chacocente helps to move people out of the dump to a community many miles away. The youth members helped build homes, tend to crops, pour concrete floors for the residents of Chacocente.

Nicaragua – Out Of The Dump

Christ Church in Bethel Park, PA took over 50 of its youth members to Nicaragua in July, 2009. While there they visited the Managua City Dump…a horrific place that nearly 150 families call home. Project Chacocente helps to move people out of the dump to a community many miles away.

Nicaragua – Loreleigh Lewis Profile

Christ United Methodist Church member Loreleigh Lewis visited Nicaragua in 2003 on a Mission of Peace trip. Her team left behind $5000 of seed money to start Project Chacocente – an organization that was set up to help Nicaraguans move from the Managua City Dump to a beautiful new piece of land in Masaya…to begin a new life. In the summer of 2009, she returned with 51 teens to help build houses, clear fields and pour concrete floors.

Nicaragua – In Their Own Words

Residents of Project Chacocente in Nicaragua explain what it has been like to move from the Chureca dump to their new home on fertile farmland in Masaya. The talk about improvements in the basic necessities of food, shelter, safety and education.