The COAR Children's Village is a home for resilient children.
The COAR Children’s Village is residential foster care home for children who cannot live with their families or who have no families. Many have been victims of abuse, neglect, trafficking, or other trauma.
At COAR, they receive medical, dental, and psychological support, as well as access to a high-quality education and round-the-clock support in a family environment.
The children live together in groups of 5 to 10 in small houses with a housemother. They eat together, do homework together, pray together, play together, and learn to take care of their home and each other as a family.
They participate in the school band, sports, dance, and other cultural programs. They also go on field trips to important cultural sights such as St. Romero’s tomb, as well as on outdoor excursions such as hikes.
They do chores, cleaning the house, washing their clothes (by hand!), and gardening.
Crucially, they have psychologists, social workers, and other professionals to help with the very real trauma that they carry.
Among these faces are children who have been abused, left to scrounge a living on the streets, trafficked, or abandoned.
Above all, they are resilient. It isn’t always easy, but day by day, they grow, learn, and heal. They are on their way to being healthy and happy children with bright futures. Many of our past residents come back to celebrate their successes: continuing on to college, landing jobs, getting married, starting families, and other joys. They show the recent arrivals that the future is full of hope, even if the recent past can be hard to let go of sometimes. They help them envision the day when they will be ready to move on, equipped with an education and having been nurtured in a loving environment.
Your support makes this all possible.