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Nicaragua’s Gran Pacifica Beach and Golf Resort – profiled last year in Forbes and developer of Central America's first New Urbanist, master planned beachfront and golf resort community – is continuing to invest heavily in its vision to be a corporate social responsibility and humanitarian leader in Central America.

Gran Pacifica will host a charity music festival on March 14, 2009, to raise funds benefitting two Nicaraguan charities – CHESS/Nicaragua and Love, Light, and Melody. All proceeds will help more than 3,000 children and families in Villa El Carmen and La Chureca, two exceptionally underprivileged regions of the country which lack basic health and education resources. (CHESS is short for “Children, Health, Education and Supporting Services”)

Nicaragua itself is one of the poorest countries in the Western hemisphere. Last year alone, CHESS/Nicaragua helped rural Nicaraguan schools rebuild and equip mini-libraries; provided computer training for teachers; collected survey data on school and health conditions; sponsored health and dental care workshops for pre-school and primary teachers; led a certified instructional course for teachers in reading and writing; sponsored history and archaeological studies; ran a fence-building project at a particularly vulnerable school; and organized a national conference for English teachers.

CHESS/Nicaragua’s compelling work has attracted the active interest of Pittsburgh Steelers Hall of Famer Franco Harris, former U.S. Ambassador to Nicaragua John Maisto and Carolina Motor Sports owner Eddie Littlefield, among others. In addition to Gran Pacifica, the CHESS/Nicaragua funding partners are the Rotary Clubs of Pittsburgh and Beaver, PA, and the United States Agency for International Development’s Programa Alianzas.

More About CHESS and Love, Light & Melody – CHESS/Nicaragua is working closely with the Hope & Development Foundation to enhance Nicaraguan primary school peer-mentoring programs, primary youth leadership programs, mother’s nutrition programs, parent teacher associations and health education programs. Love Light & Melody battles the physical, emotional and spiritual side-effects of extreme poverty in the trash dump community of La Chureca. Its goal is to identify and meet immediate physical needs, raise awareness and fight social injustice, using music and the arts to rebuild, restore, and bring healing to this distressed community.