CEPAD - Council of Protestant Churches in Nicaragua Newsletter
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With Work, Prayer And Play, Families Form Brighter Futures
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Youth Get Head Start Through Social, Leadership Program
With your support, CEPAD works with more than 600 youth
every year through its psychosocial program. Your donations and
partnership make a huge difference in the lives of kids in Nicaragua who
otherwise don’t have access to sports or other after school
programming. Read more.
CEPAD
became the U.N.’s Nicaraguan partner to assist with refugee placement
in 1979. We work with the U.N. and the Nicaraguan government to help
refugees with their transition.
“At
the moment of arrival there was confusion, fear and uncertainty to know
we would start our new life here in Nicaragua without knowing anyone
and with few economic resources,” said the father of one of the families
CEPAD helped in 2013. “But we stayed strong as a family." Read more and learn how you can help!
“Before CEPAD came, I didn’t even have this chair to sit on,
“ said Carmen Acuña, patting the arm of her wooden rocker.
Now, Acuña runs a small convenience store and leads a cooperative bank
for the women in her community, Cañas Blancas, and the surrounding
areas. CEPAD provides credit for women so they can make investments to
improve their economic circumstances. Carmen, a grandmother who is
diabetic, earned enough from the store last year to get treatment for a
serious illness while still helping with her family’s finances.
“No
banks will lend to people in this community, CEPAD is the only one,”
she said. “I am so thankful CEPAD took a chance on us, it helped keep me
alive and so I could keep my family alive.”
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