Micro-Credit Project 

 30 women are now active in JustHope's micro-credit project in Chacraseca!

And another 30 are ready to begin their second loan cycle in Santa Emilia!

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     LaFlor's new Community Tienda is open and operating in LaFlor. JustHope partners funded and helped build the store, and provided the opening inventory.   This store will save the residents of LaFlor a 2-3 hour round trip to buy their basic grains and other basic living supplies. AND the profits will be reinvested in growing the store and supporting other community projects! 

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In Santa Emilia the High School started by JustHope partners and friends is serving 210 youth from Santa Emilia and the surrounding area!  Education is changing futures!

Making  Music  in  Chacraseca

     JustHope Partners, United Church of the Valley in Murietta, CA, continued their support of music education for children in Chacraseca by offering a Music Camp for the 4^th year in a row!

   Using traditional Nicaraguan folk music, sessions were offered teaching kids to sing and to play the recorder, the chimes, the guitar, the keyboard, the drums, and the marimba! (UCV has also donated instruments for to the schools for the kids to use).  AND sessions were also offered to teach the Nicaraguan classroom teachers how to continue the learning by incorporating music into their teaching.

   Two years ago, UCV began paying a music teacher so the children's exposure to music would be more than once a year. He's doing a great job...  

     And this year, students from past years' music camps were back -- teaching the younger kids!

   Long term... these two global partners (UCV and Chacraseca) hope to develop a Music School in Chacraseca where youth and adults can learn to play instruments and do traditional Nicaraguan dancing.

     YOU can help this growing music project...

            $25 helps repair musical instruments

            $50  buys recorders, guitars, drums, etc

            $100 pays for a week of marimba lessons (a teacher travels from Managua)

            Any amount will help grow the music program!

     AND...click here to email Leslie if you are interested in  more information about next year's MUSIC CAMP in Chacraseca!     Or in helping to organize one for Santa Emilia and LaFlor!