Visits that walk from the past into the future
Our visitors encapsulated COAR’s past and future in the span of three weeks. Our Open House visitors (May 21-28) included friends of COAR’s founders from waaaay back from the 1970s. They walked the ground made sacred by the martyrdoms of their friends (Sr. Dorothy Kazel, OSU and Ms. Jean Donovan) and the work of Fr. […]
June 2025 – Relationships ~ “Do you have pictures of me when I was young?”
Relationships, an article by Rick & Shelley Mack The Mack Family has been visiting COAR and El Salvador since 2004 From the Mack family visit 2004, L-R: Claire, Valeria (14), Phil, Daniela (13), Rick 2015—Rick and Valeria 2025, L-R: Rick, Valeria, Shelley, Luis COAR is built on relationships: between children, families, staff, its surrounding communities, […]
June 2025 – Executive Director’s Reflections & News from El Salvador
Losing Family but not Losing Hope I opened my Annual Benefit presentation by saying, “There is an old joke that never gets old to me: A man goes to the doctor and cries out, ‘Doctor, doctor, am I dying?’ The doctor calmly replies, ‘We are all dying. But you are not dying today.’” When we […]
June 2025 – Memorial & Honorary Gifts
March 2025 – Sometimes all you can see is . . . the cross
from our most recent visit, updates on each one First-aid and grooming workshops Twice a year, usually February and November, we visit COAR and learn each child’s story: the new girls, successes and challenges of those we already know, and any news of those who have moved on. This is a special story we heard […]
March 2025 – Memorial & Honorary Gifts
December 2024 Memorials & Honoraries
September 2024 Newsletter – New Scholarships!
Education, the Foundation of Every Child’s Hope Our School is Thriving, So . . . We are dramatically expanding our scholarship program – thanks to you Our new sponsorship coordinator, Reina. Fun fact: she studied at COAR from 5th-9th grade. COAR did not have a high school until 1996, so after 9th grade, she left […]
September 2024 Memorials & Honoraries
Cleveland Bishop Malesic and companions :) visit COAR
September: Several of the COAR kids (those not in school that afternoon) and our visitors. Bishop Malesic, seated in the center, wearing a large cross on a chain . . . Bishop Malesic shares his cross with Carlos Alberto, who is delighted (and momentarily speechless (that won’t last ) No visit to COAR is complete […]