Community & Chiguines
Carita Feliz has close ties to the local community and meets regularly with neighbours, parents and other community leaders. The center publishes its own monthly newsletter, Chiguines, which means Teens. The newsletter has a circulation of around 2,500 copies and is distributed in local schools, businesses, Farmacia Carita Feliz and directly to the children in the center.

It was started in February 2004 when the computer education first began in the center. Once the children had learnt the basics of word processing, email and internet searching, they needed a task – Chiguines was established. A team of young journalists research and write the articles and the newsletter also has interviews, birthdays for the coming month, games, coloring pages, jokes, health advice and news from the center. The content and editing is done entirely by the students, most of whom had never seen a computer prior to the class.

Each edition consists of 12 pages of text, drawings and photos. To date, 10 editions have been published since the first edition in March 2004 and each edition has the following sections:

• Health: Eddy Carrillo
• Cooking: Yelva Garay
• Special report: Silvio Sequeira
• Birthdays: birthday kids
• Interview: Silvio Sequeira
• Get to know Nicaragua: Various
• News: Management team
• Games: Angelo Jimenez
• Classifieds: Silvio Sequeira and Eddy Carrillo (8 businesses subscribe)
• Teacher viewpoint: Yosseni Sanchez
• Did you know: Daysi Sanchez
• Poems: William Garcia
• Beauty tips: Beauty teacher