Donors & Donations

March 2019 – Sponsorship Gems from the archives

Showing How Much Their Sponsors Mean to the Children and How it is Only Possible Because of Our Translators Sarah and Juan Carlos As I walked across the COAR campus Gamaliel came running up to me and asked, “Do you know Ms. Doppes?” and as I started to answer he asked, “And Mr. and Mrs. […]

March 2019 – Student Government – COAR Leads the Way Nationally

What do the children write about? These are children, after all, so they write about their daily lives: chores, homework, how much they like chicken and soccer. But as they grow and mature, their letters reflect new horizons. An exciting new development is captured in this letter, written by Luz, (see translation, below.) When 50 […]

March 2019 – Executive Director’s Reflections & News from El Salvador

Watercolor original by: Marie Spaeder Haas

From the Peace Mission’s Executive Director By Mary K. Stevenson Solidarity & Generosity Our translation program with high schools began in 2004, when I, in my first official act as Executive Director stood in front of a closet full of suitcases and boxes of untranslated letters from the previous few years. They had renovated our […]

Best Evidence That COAR Is Respected: Growing Salvadoran Collaboration

Given the long history of distrust & struggle in El Salvador, the historic lack of transparency, the limited income tax system and frankly the war – El Salvador does not have a very rich tradition of domestic charitable cash giving.  The country simply never developed a habit of major and widespread (cash) philanthropy.  People simply […]

Sponsors Visit COAR & Teach English in the High School

A group of wonderful parishioners from St. Rita Parish, Ohio, traveled to El Salvador to visit their projects in the mountaintop town of Teotepeque and spent one morning teaching English at the COAR high school and visiting with the COAR children.  The day began by teaching four sections of high school English.  But, this was […]