Sept. 10th – Special!
Education-Oriented Non-Profits Operating Abroad: With HELP, COAR, and Bright Start Learning September 10, 2015 @ 5:30 pm – 7:30 pm | $0.00 Location: Market Garden Brewery, 1947 W. 25th St. Cleveland, OH 44113 Show your support for the COAR children and Cleveland’s impact on and solidarity with the developing world — From the CCWA website: […]
Celebrating COAR’s 35th Anniversary
35 years ago, COAR was born out of necessity and a dream. The Cleveland Mission Team was hard at work in El Salvador – serving the poor, the children, the refugees only months after Archbishop Romero was slain in the chapel at Divina Providencia. Looking back, few realized what an impact COAR would have in […]
Romero’s Message Needed to Solve Gang Violence in El Salvador
In May of 2015, there were more than 600 murders in El Salvador – a country with a population of approximately 6 million. The Salvadoran Civil War ended almost 20 years ago, but, the wonderful people of El Salvador have not seen the ‘peace’ promised by the Peace Accords! To be honest, the old left-right […]
COAR Says Goodbye to Long Term Volunteers from Europe
COAR has long had, as part of its mission, to educate the world about the Salvadoran Civil War and the needs of the Poor in El Salvador. To that end, COAR focuses on BUILDING SOLIDARITY between our donors / supporters and the entire COAR community in El Salvador. Several times a year, we take mission […]
Feel The Beat: Music Is Alive at COAR
Whether you like to sit and strum a guitar with your friends, or praise God through music during Mass or march in the marching band; or play the latest pop, salsa or regaetton hit to your screaming teen fans, there is a place for you at COAR. The students at COAR’s school, 900 or more […]
COAR opens its own Art, Music and Play Therapy Center thanks to a generous Salvadoran Donor
When the Salvadoran Civil War was ravaging the country, destroying families and generating countless widows and orphans daily, our Founder, Father Ken, was focused on sheltering, protecting, feeding and clothing the growing mass of war-orphaned Salvadoran children. There was one clear over-arching goal: protect the children so that they could survive the war. 35 years […]
Vamos de excursion! Let’s go on a field trip!
It can be hard to be a kid, you know? Especially, if you live in foster care. You wake up at 5am each school day so that you can shower from a pipe drawing cold water from the well, dress and eat breakfast before school – which starts promptly at 7am! Then, assuming you are […]