St. Edward High School will send approximately one dozen students on the biennial service trip to El Salvador in June 2010. Community Oscar Arnulfo Romero (COAR) is a community in Zaragoza that provides many needs for the extremely impoverished people living there, includ- ing foster care and a school.

The community is named after the martyr Father Oscar Romero. Romero was the archbishop in San Salvador in the late 1970s until his assassination in 1980. He was a major proponent of Liberation Theology, and this led to his assassination by Salvadoran soldiers while he was celebrating Mass.

Among the many sites students and faculty on the trip will have the op- portunity to explore in El Salvador will be Oscar Romero’s tomb and the University of Central America,. On the trip, our students will help local children at the orphanage by playing games like soccer with them and simply by giving them the attention they crave.

Spanish teacher Mrs. Lisa Hardin will lead the trip. “When some people hear ‘service trip’ they think of building houses or doing manual labor,” commented Mrs. Hardin, “but on the El Salvador trip, the service you do is direct, person-to-person accompaniment. St. Ed’s students provide the invaluable extra attention and love that these poorest of the poor children so definitely need.”