COAR TEENS LOVE TO READ: Interview with Damaris
Damaris is an amazing young lady who loves to read. Her most common catch phrase is “you don’t have a book that I could read, do you?” Although she didn’t read as a young girl, she has developed this amazing passion which has made her into the fascinating, intelligent and reserved young lady that she […]
COAR TEENS LOVE TO READ: Interview with Gamaliel
The staff of COAR Peace Mission are absolutely thrilled to learn that many of our great COAR kids love to read. In today’s world of high resolution technology, it is so rare to find kids whose greatest wish is to sit under a tree on a lovely day – reading a novel. But, COAR has […]
The Sant’Egidio community in El Salvador joins in solidarity with COAR & peace
In the late fall of 2014, the Community Sant’Egidio in El Salvador reached out to COAR for the first time. They came to COAR to be in solidarity with our children and to share their message of Peace in a society that is being ripped apart by youth violence. There is probably no place on […]
New Era: Salvadoran Charities Begin to Donate to COAR
In the early 1980s, out of the violence and pain of the civil war, Father Ken opened his parish church to a few lonely, hungry and desperate chidren – war orphans. From that humble start, thanks to the immense charity from across the United States, COAR was born. Today, COAR quite literally is giving neglected, […]
Maybe Some Justice for the 4 Church Women?
At 1230pm on Wednesday, April 8th, 2015, former Salvadoran General Carlos Vides Casanova, walked onto the tarmac at the Comalapa International airport in El Salvador, a deported man – a man with an uncertain future. After 25 years in Florida, his deportation back to El Salvador was now a reality. Vides Casanova had been head […]
Surrounded by Gang Violence: Can Hope & Peace Be Nurtured?
March 26th, 2015, 1am: violence and bloodshed shatter the Salavadoran night in our neighboring town of San Jose Villanueva. This quiet, unimposing, hillside community just a few minutes from the Pacific coast to the south and COAR to the west, erupted in bloody violence as the Salvadoran National Civil Police entered the town that it […]
COAR High School Medical Track Students To the Rescue!
In March 2015, a wonderful group of students from the College of Wooster visited COAR and taught English in the high school. It was a great visit. The College of Wooster students taught English in pairs with 4-6 COAR students at a time. That is a student-teacher language ratio of potentially 1:2. Wow! All of […]
March 2015 Newsletter page 1
Four Internos Moving On . . . Then and Now # 1 – Veronica – Transition to Adulthood with Real Job Skills and Experience Veronica was one of several COAR internos selected by the Hotel Intercontinental Real, San Salvador, for a prestigious hotel internship program in 2014. While attending the regular high school, participants in […]
March 2015 Newsletter page 2 and 3
Four Internos Moving On . . . Then and Now # 2 & 3 Cristina and Marta Alicia, Sisters – Ready for a New Home Marta Alicia turned 18 last month and the Child Protection Agency, ISNA, decided she should live with a relative. Cristina, 16, was allowed to leave with her. They have grown […]
March Newsletter 2015 pages 4 and 5
Archbishop Romero ~ Beatified May 23rd COAR is the oldest extant organization to carry Msgr. Romero’s name with the blessing of the Archdiocese of San Salvador Above, Sr. Dorothy Kazel, OSU, (murdered Dec. 2, 1980) took these pictures of Msgr. Romero when he visited the town next to where COAR stands today. Below are The […]