See It: The Community being helped

Nuestro Ahora. . .Learning to Make a Difference

Growing up is tough enough. It's even tougher when you're all alon. We're comitted to changing exactly that, and by working with la Comunidad Oscar Arnulfo Romero ("COAR") orphanage, a rare safe haven for the otherwise abandoned street children of Central America's tiniest but most violent country, we are striving to give back the furture to the children of El Salvador.

Nuestro Ahora quips the young graduates of the COAR orphanage with a shot at university education, providing away for young women and men to transition from the orphanage to the ever-challenging real world. But Nuestro Ahora does much more than that. We work with the students, ensuring they have all the support they need to truly suceed. We provide the students with a safe place to live in addition to a stipend for meals, books, and transportation, so they can focus their energies where they're needed most. . .on their studies and dreams, and, of courese, back at COAR.

In addition to their studies, participants serve as role models to the many younger children at the COAR at the COAR orphanage. Whether helping with homework, teaching arts and cragts, listening to a young child's worries, or simplyin playing some futbol with the kids, the university students quickly become invaluable mentors, providing by example a sense of what really is possible. They reassure the kids that they're NOT all alon. They reassure the kids that DREAMS ARE WORTH BELIEVING IN. . .