Possible Food Shortage: Central America Suffers Unusual Drought Due to El Nino
The climate in El Salvador is quite different from what we are used to in the northern MidWest. Our winter, roughly November thru April, is actually the Salvadoran summer. It is the dry and sunny season. There is almost no significant rainfall during this time of year. It is the beach-lovers paradise: tons of sun […]
December 2015 Newsletter Honorary and Memorial
September 2015 Newsletter page 1
Horrible headlines . . . . . COAR’s solutions . . . . . . The Executioners of El Salvador By Daniel Alarcón, August 4, 2015 Earlier this year, the International Business Times ran this bewildering headline: “El Salvador to Become Deadliest Peace-Time Country in the World.” It’s an odd turn of phrase; something […]
September 2015 Newsletter page 2
Horrible headlines . . . . . COAR’s solutions . . . . . . Inside El Salvador’s ‘War Without Sense’ Ioan Grillo @ioangrillo July 24, 2015 http://time.com/3966900/el-salvador-gangs-violence/ El Salvador’s Kill Zone Ioan Grillo @ioangrillo July 23, 2015 http://time.com/3969232/el-salvadors-kill-zone/ Warring gangs have turned El Salvador into one of the world’s deadliest places When new […]
September 2015 Newsletter page 4
Horrible headlines . . . . . COAR’s solutions . . . . . . Gang violence in El Salvador fuelling country’s child migration crisis Warring gangs and crime are prompting more youngsters to leave their families and homes and seek refuge in the US Nina Lakhani in San Salvador, Tuesday 18 November 2014 […]
September 2015 Newsletter page 5
Hopeful headlines . . . . . COAR’s been part of this solution for 35years . . . . . . For-profit education The $1-a-week school Private schools are booming in poor countries. Governments should either help them or get out of their way Aug 1st 2015 | From the print edition http://www.economist.com/news/leaders/21660113-private-schools-are-booming-poor-countries-governments-should-either-help-them-or-get-out […]
September 2015 Newsletter page 6
From the Peace Mission’s Executive Director By Mary K. Stevenson So, “The Expert” Seems To Be Saying Our Budget Needs to Increase by $50,000.00 As I read head-line after head-line about El Salvador these past few months, I was overwhelmed by how well COAR is doing. It is an excellent and safe child care facility […]
September 2015 Newsletter page 7
Honorary Gifts
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 […]
June 2015 Newsletter page 2
It Takes a Village Sponsorship Translators A Picture of Fatima (top left on board) ~ translators Trinity High School, Garfield Hts., OH Fatima & friends See More about Fatima on page 1 St. Edward Thank you High Schools Fall 2014 & Spring 2015 translators: Trinity Barberton Beaumont Brunswick St. Edward St. Ignatius Archbishop Hoban Padua […]