Walter uploaded some photos of what looks like the ground-breaking for the new classrooms at Nuestra Senora de Guadalupe. Only this ground-breaking is without all the pomp and circumstance that usually accompanies such an event. Nope, no flashing bulbs or gilded shovels…just three laborers (likely parents) breaking ground. I hope all the students at JSerra [...]
I’m not sure why, but this makes me feel like that little kid who spent all December wanting a certain toy, all the while knowing that he wasn’t going to get it. Then come Christmas morning at 5 AM, he’s squinting at it through tired little eyes, still not really sure it’s there. Now that’s [...]
Who knew that high school students wanted to dress down so badly? Oh…that’s right. I knew.
But campus minstry leader Robyn Gibson says the outpouring of support wasn’t just a fortunate consequence of several hundred cases of senioritis. In fact, after a sluggish start to the jeans day effort, the students found that if they were [...]
February 23, 2010 – 2:52 pm
Walter’s powerpoint presentation on Nuestra Señora de Guadalupe. Well done!
Señora de Guadalupe
February 17, 2010 – 9:53 pm
Meet the senior campus ministry students at JSerra Catholic High School in San Juan Capistrano, CA. At the request of their theology teacher Robyn Gibson, TLAU’s very own Leonard Nelson recently delivered them a presentation on our organization and the impact it is having on the poor of El Salvador. Evidently what they gleamed wasn’t [...]
December 24, 2009 – 12:34 pm
Hello,
My name is Wendy Rodriguez and my family is from San Pedro Puxtla. Although I was born here I was raised for a few years back in San Pedro Puxtla and most of my family is still there. I stumbled upon your website today while googling my town and I just want to say THANK [...]
December 21, 2009 – 3:15 pm
There are some excellent new photos up on the photo page showing the early stages of construction for the two classrooms going up in Zacatecoluca. Click here for a little background info on the school and its ongoing fruitful relationship with TLAU.
October 31, 2009 – 11:14 pm
This from Walter (translated):
“Good morning my brothers in Christ-
It has been several days since I have written, but I have not forgotten my responsibilities, it’s just that I have been very busy with work here at the end of the school year.
We have completed the project in San Pedro. Thanks be to God.”
And there you [...]
October 10, 2009 – 3:44 pm
As the final touches are being put on the classrooms in San Pedro, TLAU is already busy preparing for two new projects that will be carried out simultaneously.
The first project at the Centro Escolar Catolico Virgen de Guadalupe has been in the works for a while, but we have been waiting for them to get [...]
October 3, 2009 – 2:29 pm
Walter sent some great photos of the progress at Centro Escolar Fray Sammy Guido V in San Pedro. View them here.
The photo at left doesn’t show much of the classroom, but I couldn’t bring myself to choose another. I love their custom of making a banner or poster and sticking it in front of a [...]
Meet TLAU’s latest project: the construction of two classrooms at Centro Escolar Catolico Fray Sammy Guido Vellardita in San Predro Puxtla, department of Ahuachapan. The school’s six maestros teach 220 students from kindergarten through fifth grade. Click here or on the photo at left to view more.
The school is maintained by a very dedicated Franciscan [...]
Father Keane and Jim Rolquin (one of TLAU’s most active donors who funded the ongoing project at Nuestra Senora de los Pobres) recently returned from a trip to El Salvador. And as you can see in the picture to the left, they received the hero’s welcome that they deserved.
In addition to visiting the completed project [...]
Well, I’m back in the states after a very enjoyable trip to El Salvador to talk with sponsored students, visit completed projects, and talk with those who need the help of TLAU. My plan is to use the next week or so to recount the events of our trip, but for now, take a look [...]
February 17, 2009 – 1:28 pm
If I wasn’t traveling to El Salvador in three weeks, I could say with confidence that I’d seen everything.
I don’t care what your soft spot is, whether it’s the mannerists or the pre-Raphaelites, gothic or baroque, Michaelangelo or Raphael, you must admit: that’s one well-adorned block of concrete. Click here or the photo to the [...]
February 17, 2009 – 1:08 pm
Walter sent a few shots of the first day of construction of the “cancha” or covered play area at Nuestra Senora del Refugio in Ahuachapan. TLAU donated the three classrooms on the second floor in the photo to the left, and the large expanse of scorched earth in front of them (extending beyond the right [...]
