Compass Consulting’s first project is a joint venture with the Fabretto Children’s Foundation, a non-profit organization dedicated to relief efforts in Nicaragua. The Fabretto Project, as it is called, will sponsor Nicaraguan children.
Fr. Otto Hentz, S.J., an associate professor of theology and the Jesuit sponsor of Compass Consulting, said that the new campus group aims to get students closely involved in the Fabretto Children’s Foundation’s work. According to Hentz, the foundation was established by Kevin Marinacci (CAS ’89), who traveled to Nicaragua for a year after his graduation with other volunteers from Georgetown to work with the poor as a part of a program directed by Hentz. During that year, Hentz said, Marinacci worked with Fr. [Rafael Maria] Fabretto, who managed a few small orphanages for kids from the streets of Managua, Nicaragua.Marinacci remained in the country after Fabretto’s death in 1990 to develop the foundation which helps over 5,000 children. “When I first got to Nicaragua 20 years ago, it was hard to know what these kids would eat each day,” Marinacci said. “If it weren’t for the Georgetown network, I doubt we would be around today.”
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