March 2019 – Student Government – COAR Leads the Way Nationally
What do the children write about? These are children, after all, so they write about their daily lives: chores, homework, how much they like chicken and soccer. But as they grow and mature, their letters reflect new horizons. An exciting new development is captured in this letter, written by Luz, (see translation, below.) When 50 […]
March 2019 – Children and Students Are the Same Here and There
We send a three-page translation guide with all the letters to all the schools. The words are different but the ideas are universal.
March 2019 – Executive Director’s Reflections & News from El Salvador
From the Peace Mission’s Executive Director By Mary K. Stevenson Solidarity & Generosity Our translation program with high schools began in 2004, when I, in my first official act as Executive Director stood in front of a closet full of suitcases and boxes of untranslated letters from the previous few years. They had renovated our […]
March 2019 – Memorial & Honorary Gifts
March 2019 – Open House – Visit COAR this summer
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December 2018 – Your Gifts Break the Cycle of Poverty with Jobs
Three of our grads (graduation in El Salvador is in November): Ana Ruth, Claudia, and Heycel have been offered full time jobs after graduation. COAR has been seeking to break the cycle of poverty. Thanks to your gifts, and some very hard work by the Children’s Village staff over the past few years, a […]
December 2018 – An Orphanage That Doesn’t Seem Like An Orphanage
This article was excerpted from NPR’s Goats and Soda ~ it shows that COAR has the ideal structure, and culture, for this kind of foster-care facility [excerpt:] Orphanages are falling out of favor. . . The big question is: Would he fare any better if he were living with his biological parents? Duke University professor […]
December 2018 – Celebrating St. Romero’s Canonization at COAR
Ignacio won the school-wide St. Romero Poem Contest: The Salvadoran Traveler By Ignacio Cruz From one corner to another, then to all parts, an announcement to the world was proclaimed; the clamor of thousands of mouths and bells rang out from my tiny, scandalized country. So small is my land but yet so invincible, […]
December 2018 – Executive Director’s Reflections & News from El Salvador
From the Peace Mission’s Executive Director By Mary K. Stevenson My Trail of Tears Monday, October 29th, on my way to see friends of COAR in SE Tennessee, I, literally, drove on the Trail of Tears. That is the path the Cherokee marched when President Andrew Jackson forced them off their land and out to western […]
December 2018 – Memorial & Honorary Gifts
Wishing peace and comfort to all who have lost a loved one this holiday season & joy to us all Feliz Navidad!