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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
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