Grey Matters Media

Thirty-five years ago, the Catholic Church sent Padre Marcos Dessy to Nicaragua to care for orphaned children. From this humble beginning, his ventures in and around the town of Chinandega have blossomed into a network of support and growth for the community. Padre Marcos has named his mission Betania after the town of Bethany where Jesus raised his friend Lazarus from the dead. Some of the services available in Betania include:

• Our Lady of Pilar Catholic Church
• Getsemani Seminary
• San Martín de Porres Hospital
• Omar Mohamed Kidney Dialysis Clinic
• Jario Fransico Vega Salazar Conservatory School of Music
• Rodrigo Callejas Montealegre Theater
• Enrique Berio Mantica Deshón Museum of Nicaraguan Culture
• School of Art
• Vocational Schools for woodworking, mechanics, and food preservation
• Santa Lucía house for blind children
• Refugio Belén home for pregnant women and new mothers
• Haldo Dubon Callejas school for children rescued from the dump
• Heidi Rusnak school for rural children
• Amigos por Cristo and Fe y Alegria Health Centers servicing eight Chindandegan neighborhoods
• Rey Juan Carlos I Technical Vocational School
• Three hundred homes with land to grow crops

A nursing school, physical therapy facility, theater, and museum will also be opening soon.

Grey Matters Media is producing a DVD to promote Betania to possible benefactors. This project, taken on pro bono by Grey Matters Media, will benefit both Betania and the people of Chinandega.