Urgent prayers needed: Super Typhoon Mangkhut

UPDATE, September 17  Thank you for your prayers for the people of the Philippines. Our church partners are gathering information on the impact of the typhoon and are working with local government agencies to coordinate response efforts for affected beneficiaries and their families. We don’t yet have details about how beneficiaries have been impacted at this […]

What I love most at my Compassion Centre

What would it be like to be a fly on the wall at Compassion-assisted child development centres across the globe? What would be the activities, the lessons and the moments that make a child’s face light up—eyes bright and smile wide? What are the experiences that ignite excitement in the heart of a child? We […]

#SponsorSelfieDay is September 15: Join the Global Movement!

Join the Global Movement of Passionate Sponsors  #SponsorSelfieDay is a way to use social media for good. It’s a way to transform a selfie into something that can ignite compassion in others, so they might also help children in extreme poverty. When you share about the special relationship you have with the child you sponsor, […]

Born missing limbs, this is how Grace lives without limits

When I was born, my family and relatives thought I was a curse. They tried to convince my mother to stop breastfeeding me so that I would die of hunger. They said that nothing like this had ever happened in their clan before and that as soon as I was born even the livestock started […]

This remarkable 15-year-old stopped her own wedding

15-year-old Ratna is a bright and social young woman from rural Bangladesh. But on March 2, 2018, her freedom was almost stolen from her. That day, she almost became part of the 22 per cent of girls in Bangladesh (UNICEF) who are married by age 15—until she bravely decided to speak up for herself. It […]

Being the Church in the aftermath of war

A decades-long conflict between Joseph Kony’s guerrilla group, the Lord’s Resistance Army (LRA), and the Ugandan government left horrifying devastation in its wake: the forced displacement of millions of people, mass looting of property, the abduction of boys to become child soldiers, the abduction of girls to become sex slaves and the deaths of close […]

Struggle no more: Letter writing made easy!

Your letter writing struggles solved—and letter templates for you to copy! One of the most unique and beautiful parts of child sponsorship is the opportunity to build a relationship with the child you sponsor through letter writing. But many sponsors find it difficult to write for a wide variety of reasons. It can be hard […]

For Patnaree, there was no time to waste

The birth of a child should be met with joy, not fear. But when Patnaree entered the world with a stomach deformity, her mother Chernaypaw was terrified. How could she possibly access the medical treatment Patnaree so desperately required? The lead up to the birth of her third child was filled with uncertainty for Chernaypaw. During […]

Help these miracle triplets have the best birthday ever!

Annet is an awe-inspiring single mother of triplets who needs your help. After delivering one baby, she was rushed to a hospital on a motorbike where she unexpectedly delivered two more! Abandoned by her husband, she is raising these precious miracles alone. And her family desperately needs a safe home. The unexpected arrival of triple […]