Jesus cares about children. So do we.
Who is Compassion?
We are a Christian charity dedicated to releasing children from poverty in Jesus’ name. Through sponsorships and donations, we empower local churches to provide individualized and holistic care to children in poverty so they are free to learn, grow, play and dream.
What does Compassion do?
Compassion works across 29 countries through over 8,700 frontline church partners.
Each church partner tailors our holistic child development model to the contextualized needs of the children in its community to best deliver the whole-life care the children need. Holistic child development requires a long-term approach and goes beyond simple involvement in the life of a child. It involves long-term dedication and perseverance, and it changes as a child’s needs change. Holistic child development is tailored to a child’s age, gender, health, culture, and family situation.
We work primarily through child sponsorship, but also have specific initiatives to help babies and mothers, to develop future leaders, and to meet critical needs through the following holistic approach:
Child Development
Education, medical care, nutrition and life skills training for every child.
Youth Empowerment
Vocational and entrepreneurial training, university education, sports and art opportunities.
Spiritual Guidance
Bible distribution, lessons and encouragement for children.
Survival
Essential prenatal care, birth assistance and training for infant and mother survival.
Transformational Initiatives
Large-scale water, health, infrastructure and disaster response interventions.
Children in our program are…
All percentages represent the highest outcome we have seen.
%
more likely to finish secondary school
%
more likely to graduate from college
%
more likely to have salaried employment
%
more likely to become community leaders
Spotlight on Critical Initiatives
Through generous donors like you, millions of children and their family members were served in 2023.
Survival
Life-saving care for vulnerable mothers and infants
- Investment: $17.5M
- Impact: 56,400 mothers and their babies
Disaster Response
Home repair, skills training, food and hygiene supplies
- Investment: $47.5M
- Impact: 1.47M children and family members
Youth Livelihood
Home repair, skills training, food and hygiene supplies
- Investment: $12.1M
- Impact: 341,900 students
WaSH
Clean water, sanitation and hygiene initiatives
- Investment: $6.6M
- Impact: 207,450 children alongside family and staff
Health, Nutrition and Medical
Preventative and responsive care
- Investment: $14.7M
- Impact: 1.06M children and family members
Church Mobilization
New or improved church buildings and new church partnerships
- Investment: $11.6M
- Impact: 118,550 children
Income Generation
Skill-building trainings and business start-up support
- Investment: $4.5M
- Impact: 34,600 youth and caregivers
Your contributions are stewarded
wisely to help children around the world.
We’re committed to the highest standards of financial integrity and accountability, only using money for the purpose it was raised, regularly performing audits to ensure our programs are well managed and funds are properly disbursed and applied and balancing low administrative and fundraising costs with high-quality programs.
We exceed governance benchmarks.
Earned for trustworthiness in the marketplace.
We are accredited for upholding integrity.