Harbaugh coaches in unlikely locale

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Each of the 49ers' draft picks has signed. And the team has no more official offseason work before the start of training camp in late-July.
This is about the only time of the year where there is not much -- if any -- news regarding the players and coaches. Today's Jim Harbaugh update comes from from an unlikely source: Catholic News Agency.Harbaugh was not on the 49ers' practice field during a three-day rookie minicamp last week. Instead, he spent a week in Piura, Peru, on a mission through his Catholic church.
But Harbaugh managed to do some coaching, too. Harbaugh told CNA that impromptu football lessons with the kids brought him joy.Harbaugh was part of a team of U.S. volunteers who traveled to the small town nearly 600 miles north of Lima to help the Most Blessed Sacrament Parish with its daily ministries to the poor. The group of U.S. volunteers helped build 20 houses, and packaged and delivered locally produced rice and beans for 1,400 families, CNA reports.
Harbaugh learned of the mission trips through St. Raymond's, his parish in Menlo Park. He has taken three trips to Peru in the past four years."It's incredible the amount of work they do and they joy that they do it with," Harbaugh told CNA.The parish's outreach includes a women's shelter, an orphanage, a drug rehabilitation center, a hospice facility and, most recently, tuition-free Catholic school for kindergarten through 11th graders."Every desk was full," Harbaugh said. "Three years ago when we came down here, the school was just an idea."

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