Contest Winners at COAR: Casa San Patricio Wins a Field Trip to a Water Park
COAR held a contest among all of the houses to see who could create the best mural to be painted on the exterior wall of the new Therapy Center. The idea was to create something colorful and exciting that also conveyed the purpose and mission of the Therapy Center. Our director held a contest to […]
Sept. 10th – Special!
Education-Oriented Non-Profits Operating Abroad: With HELP, COAR, and Bright Start Learning September 10, 2015 @ 5:30 pm – 7:30 pm | $0.00 Location: Market Garden Brewery, 1947 W. 25th St. Cleveland, OH 44113 Show your support for the COAR children and Cleveland’s impact on and solidarity with the developing world — From the CCWA website: […]
Celebrating COAR’s 35th Anniversary
35 years ago, COAR was born out of necessity and a dream. The Cleveland Mission Team was hard at work in El Salvador – serving the poor, the children, the refugees only months after Archbishop Romero was slain in the chapel at Divina Providencia. Looking back, few realized what an impact COAR would have in […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
Where can you zipline next to a waterfall? El Salvador.
Let’s play a game. I will name a location and you name what it is known for, ok? China, the Great Wall Paris, the Eiffel Tower Greece, the Parthenon El Salvador, beautiful water falls and zipline routes. Huh? Yes, when you hear of El Salvador, you usually think of Oscar Romero, the Martyrs of the […]
COAR Kids Watch 2014 World Cup
On Saturday, June 28th, the COAR kids had a wonderful treat. All of our kids boarded a bus and headed off to a shopping mall about 20 minutes from Zaragoza in order to watch Brazil take on Chile in the 2014 World Cup. For those who have not been to Zaragoza, the main street offers […]
Letting Kids Be Kids: OFF TO THE MOVIES!
In May, COAR’s director rewarded 20 of our kids for their excellent grades at the end of the 1st grading period and their overall good behavior. She sought out Salvadoran sponsors who paid for a rare field trip to a Cinemark movie theater to watch the newly released Spiderman 2. The kids were well behaved and […]
Visit to Esquipulas
In the spring of 2014, two COAR students, Diana and Mercedes, were honored with a trip to the town of Esquipulas in southeastern Guatemala due to their outstanding grades. Members of the local Parish, Our Lady of the Pillar of Zaragoza, were making a pilgrimage to Esquipulas and invited these top scholars to join them […]