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10 Moments Every Child Sponsor Can Relate To
Your child sponsorship experience, explained in GIFs. 1. Remember the moment you were deciding which child to sponsor? Sometimes it can feel a little overwhelming! 2. When your sponsored child writes these words: ‘I love you’ or ‘I’m praying for you’. Building a relationship with a child and knowing your support is helping to release […]
How kids celebrate Christmas at a Compassion centre
Christmas at a Compassion centre is a special time. In many Compassion children’s homes, there will be no special decorations, no Christmas feast and no presents. But our church partners go the extra mile to help children know and experience the love of God at Christmas time. Children begin receiving your Christmas letters before the […]
Where are they now? 10 child sponsorship success stories
Do you ever wonder what sponsored children will become when they grow up? Or reflect on your own childhood dreams? At Compassion, we believe in dreaming big. We refuse to let poverty steal hope: our hope for the children in our programs, our hope for tomorrow and our hope to end extreme poverty in the […]
Rape doesn’t have to be the end of the story
When Sara* was raped at age 12, she dropped out of school and fell into a life of drugs and prostitution. But the people who loved her wouldn’t give up on her. When Sara was a little girl, she loved to wear pretty dresses. She loved to sing, and she loved to dance. She […]
How 5 girls are restoring hope with an app to fight female genital mutilation
Synthia, a Compassion beneficiary from Kenya, joined with four classmates to develop an app to end female genital mutilation—and won second place at Google’s 2017 Technovation Challenge. It’s done in secret at night. You are home for the holidays from boarding school, as there is no school in your rural community in Kenya. You are […]
What makes children in poverty most thankful?
Each year at Thanksgiving, my family goes around the table and we each share what we’re thankful for. Usually, we share about how grateful we are to have each other and for how God has provided for us. I love reading what these 10 Compassion kids around the world had to say when we asked […]
What can a boy in poverty teach you about waiting?
How a Canadian sponsor learned about faith in times of waiting from an impoverished family in Ecuador By Amy Smart It was 4 a.m. on a January morning. I stood in a parking lot, shivering as the cold Saskatchewan wind cut through my hoodie and sweatpants. Suitcase in tow, I approached the van that […]
15 Extraordinary Journeys to School
Growing up, do you remember hearing your great grandpa say, “When I was a kid, I had to walk to school barefoot in the snow and uphill both ways!” Around the world, children today still face great obstacles to get to school. As children in Canada are getting ready for another school year, here’s a […]
How is Compassion different from other organizations?
In the contact centre, we often receive calls and emails asking how Compassion is different from other child sponsorship organizations. With the many options available, people want to know why they should choose us. It’s a good question, but the answer is difficult. Sure, I could recite statistics about our effectiveness but that may not […]
It’s 3 a.m. Richard Amenu, 17, quietly gets up from the cramped room where his family of six is sleeping and makes his way outside to start a fire. He’s run out of matches again so, squatting on the ground, he strikes one small rock against another, trying over and over to create a spark. […]