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Cedarville Magazine
Blessing and Being Blessed
In Greek, makarios (mah-kar-ee-ose)
means “blessed”, and the Makarios School
in the Dominican Republic definitely
blessed 10 Cedarville University students
and staff who visited in October 2014. The
Cedarville crew interacted with children
who attend the school and also renovated
the community basketball court in the
village of Pancho Mateo.
Makarios, founded in 2004 by
Cedarville graduate Sharla Megilligan ’97,
educates kindergarten through third grade
Haitian andDominican students from three
impoverished communities — Chichigua,
Pancho Mateo, and Tamarindo. Besides a
Christ-centered education, Makarios also
offers its students clean drinking water,
vitamins, two hot meals a day, and access
to medical care.
Makarios is the focus of the Student
Government Assoc i at ion (SGA)
Philanthropy Project this year. SGA and
the student body are working together to
raise $50,000 to build six new classrooms
for Makarios.
Megilligan, owner of Dominican
Joe Coffee Shop in Austin, Texas,
supports the school through store sales.
Dominican Joe coffee is also available
at Rinnova coffee shop in the Stevens
Student Center at Cedarville. For more
photos and the backstory to the trip, visit
Cedarville photographer Scott Huck’s blog:
Campus News
