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COAR – Comunidad Óscar A. Romero
Sheltering, educating, and supporting resilient children in El Salvador since 1980.

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Author: SusanB

COAR’s High School Electronics Wizards

In the same way it’s easier for students to learn when they have the appropriate materials for hands-on experience, it’s easier for you to understand their projects if you can actually see them in action! Following are a few videos of the projects… Robot Arm https://coarpeacemission.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/11/robot-arm.mp4 Crane https://coarpeacemission.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/11/crane.mp4 Elevator https://coarpeacemission.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/11/VID-20251120-WA0035.mp4

Holy Week Rituals

Palm Sunday & Holy Thursday: The Last Supper Learning * Service * Humility * Compassion El Salvador is most famous for its Good Friday re-enactments of Jesus’ crucifixion, “the Living Stations of the Cross”. However, all of Holy Week is also celebrated. Holy Week begins with Palm Sunday, when crowds threw palms down on the […]

March 2024 – Executive Director’s Reflections & News from El Salvador

Watercolor original by: Marie Spaeder Haas

Executive Director’s Reflections Teaching Dignity, Pride, Compassion Can you imagine teaching a kid to do chores who has only everbeen forced to clean with beatings or abuse? Can you imagine how a child learnstenderness and compassion when any vulnerability was exploited, seen as aninvitation to abuse? Well, at COAR the ritual of Holy Thursday, the […]