COAR Says Goodbye to Long Term Volunteers from Europe
COAR has long had, as part of its mission, to educate the world about the Salvadoran Civil War and the needs of the Poor in El Salvador. To that end, COAR focuses on BUILDING SOLIDARITY between our donors / supporters and the entire COAR community in El Salvador. Several times a year, we take mission […]
Feel The Beat: Music Is Alive at COAR
Whether you like to sit and strum a guitar with your friends, or praise God through music during Mass or march in the marching band; or play the latest pop, salsa or regaetton hit to your screaming teen fans, there is a place for you at COAR. The students at COAR’s school, 900 or more […]
COAR opens its own Art, Music and Play Therapy Center thanks to a generous Salvadoran Donor
When the Salvadoran Civil War was ravaging the country, destroying families and generating countless widows and orphans daily, our Founder, Father Ken, was focused on sheltering, protecting, feeding and clothing the growing mass of war-orphaned Salvadoran children. There was one clear over-arching goal: protect the children so that they could survive the war. 35 years […]
Vamos de excursion! Let’s go on a field trip!
It can be hard to be a kid, you know? Especially, if you live in foster care. You wake up at 5am each school day so that you can shower from a pipe drawing cold water from the well, dress and eat breakfast before school – which starts promptly at 7am! Then, assuming you are […]
COAR Kids Love Visitors: Even If No One Speaks Spanish
COAR kids love to meet with visitors from the US and especially with their sponsors. COAR has been very lucky to have hosted delegations from colleges, high schools and parishes from around the country. Since few US visitors are bilingual, our official COAR delegations usually stay in-country for about 1 week. During the week, US […]
COAR Students Celebrate the Life and Martyrdom of Oscar Romero
On May 22nd, 2015, COAR’s 900+ students celebrated the life and sacrifice of Oscar Romero. The following day, in San Salvador, 250,000 stood in the baking hot sun – happily – awaiting the message from Pope Francis that Oscar Romero was finally Beato Romero! Back at COAR, there was a lovely Holy Mass. Friday was […]
Salvadoran Father in US Counsels Kids to Seek Legal Route to US: Border Too Dangerous
With an election year close at hand, it is helpful to remind ourselves of the people behind the stories. We will briefly describe the case of legal immigrant Carlos Leveron and how his story fits into the national narrative on Immigration. But, to begin, some facts to consider: In the past 5 years, there has […]
Oscar Romero “Smiles Down upon El Salvador” during his Beatification
May 23rd, 2015, over 250,000 Salvadorans flooded the streets surrounding the Divino Salvador del Mundo monument in the capital city to celebrate the beatification of slain Archbishop Oscar Arnulfo Romero. The Archdiocese had constructed a temporary stage in front of the monument. Throngs of people lined the streets emanating outward like roots of hope from […]
Sports and Recreation at COAR
COAR, like most schools today, realizes the importance of promoting healthy physical exercise, as well as, traditional academia. What have great minds said about exercise? President JFK said “Physical fitness is not only one of the most important keys to a healthy body, it is the basis of dynamic and creative intellectual activity”. President Thomas […]
June 2015 Newsletter page 1
Paradise Down donates another free year of Down Syndrome services to Support COAR child 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 to the efforts of our Salvadoran director, a local non-profit organization called “Paradise […]