Fabretto Children's Foundation

Fabretto is a 501c3 nonprofit organization whose mission is to educate and empower underserved children, youth, and their families to enable them to improve their livelihoods and their communities. Fabretto carries on the work of Fr. Raphael Maria Fabretto, an Italian missionary who founded a network of children’s homes in the poorest communities of Nicaragua starting in 1953. After his death in 1990, his work continued with the formation of our foundation. Over the past several decades, Fabretto grew from serving 300 children via basic education and nutrition services, to reaching over 60,000 beneficiaries with education and development programs in 2021 in Nicaragua.

As of mid-2022, Fabretto has begun a new chapter in which we are partnering with on-the-ground nonprofit organizations across Central America to strengthen education programs, provide technical assistance, and build local capacity to serve children and youth. Currently, we work in Honduras and Guatemala.

Together with community-embedded partners on the ground, we are focused on three core programs: Education, Nutrition, and Youth Empowerment. We also run a Child Sponsorship program. Leveraging decades of experience implementing innovative grassroots education and development programs in Nicaragua, we are strengthening the capacities of the organizations through innovative methodologies, technical expertise, and accompaniment.