More About Cardinal Rosa Chavez
COAR, the Community of Oscar A. Romero, is the oldest extant organization in the world to carry the name of Oscar Romero with the approval of the Archdiocese of San Salvador. Oscar Romero will be canonized in the fall of 2018. Note from COAR’s Executive Director: On April 28th, COAR honored Romero’s long-time friend and […]
Paradise Down donates another free year of Down Syndrome services to support COAR child
Our cover girl for our 2017 Annual Benefit is Fatima, sporting a beautiful blue butterfly “tattoo” from Christmas 2016. Here is a story about her from 2015: Several years ago, COAR welcomed our first child with Down Syndrome. She is a wonderful girl with a bright and lively spirit who only wants to please. Thanks […]
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
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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 […]
Christmas Piñata Party 2015
Each December, some of the COAR kids are able to connect with distant relatives so that they can spend the holidays with family. The Courts must conduct background investigations of these families to ensure the safety of the children but if approved, we are very happy to see the kids spend the holidays with their […]
Pre-Christmas treat: COAR kids visit a local circus
Each November, the academic year slowly comes to a halt about the same time that we in the USA celebrate Thanksgiving – but, Thanksgiving is a distinctly US tradition. In El Salvador, high schools hold graduation ceremonies and the kids say goodbye to their teachers and friends for a couple of months. Since the Salvadoran […]