March 2016 Newsletter Your Gifts Build Strength and Gentleness- the school, pg. 1
March 2016 Newsletter Your Gifts Build Strength and Gentleness Strength – the school, pg. 1 Gentleness – the children, pgs. 4-5 Rosita Graduates from Kindergarten “There is no strength like gentleness, and no gentleness like real strength.” -St. Francis de Sales The 2015 (November) graduation class of COAR High School The students and teachers cannot […]
March 2016 Newsletter COAR Co-founder, RIP: Sister Audrey Walsh, CCVI, 1921-2015
COAR Co-founder, RIP: Sister Audrey Walsh, CCVI, 1921-2015 Those of you new to COAR might not know that our history goes back to 1980. That is the year when Bl. Romero, Archbishop of San Salvador, was murdered. That summer, as the refugee camps filled, a priest, Fr. Ken Myers, a member of the Cleveland Latin American Mission (CLAM) Team, brought a few children […]
March 2016 Newsletter Your Gifts Build Strength and Gentleness- the children, pgs. 4-5
March 2016 Newsletter Your Gifts Build Strength and Gentleness Strength – the school, pg. 1Gentleness – the children, pgs. 4-5 Juan Carlos came to COAR in 2002. He graduated in November 2015 (the Salvadoran school year begins and ends with the calendar year.) He was one of the students selected for the Intercontinental Hotel internship […]
March 2016 Newsletter Executive Director
From the Peace Mission’s Executive Director by Mary K. Stevenson Many of COAR’s supporters are not Catholic. But they appreciate the spirit and integrity with which we approach our Catholic mission. Being Catholic also gives us centuries of experience and wisdom to draw upon. St. Francis de Sales was bishop of Geneva from 1602-1622, while […]
March 2016 Newsletter Honorary and Memorial
Honorary Gifts Special Memorial Gifts Memorial Gifts
Leading the Way in El Salvador: Foster Care Must Adapt to Realities on the Ground
COAR and our generous donors have always responded to the needs of the poor, neglected and at-risk children of El Salvador. In the 1980s, COAR grew organically out of the reality. With the Salvadoran civil war raging in the countryside, war orphans were appearing daily at the Church in Zaragoza on the outskirts of San […]