Sponsor a Child

Compassion: An International Charitable Organization since 1952

More than 50 years ago, American evangelist Rev. Everett Swanson went to a foreign land and found his Christian purpose. He found it among the dozens of abandoned Korean orphans lying in the streets, steeped in poverty with no one to help them. Swanson turned compassion into action. With a $50 check from a generous donor, Swanson created a child sponsorship ministry with just 35 orphans. Today, that legacy continues with the international charitable organization Compassion International. Our Christian child ministry now serves more than 728,000 children in more than 20 developing countries.

Learn how you too can help a child in need by following the links below.

• Learn more about sponsoring a child
• Child sponsorship photo tours
• Financial information
• Christian child sponsorship testimonials
• Ways to sponsor a child
• Charitable giving opportunities

Sponsoring a Child with Compassion

By sponsoring a child through Compassion’s international charitable organization, you can help change the world one child at a time. Compassion meets the spiritual, physical, economic, and social needs of children in poverty worldwide.

Compassion is Christ-centered, child-focused, church-based and committed to integrity. Our projects are long-term development efforts that focus on the whole child. Compassion partners with churches around the world to administer our child sponsorship program. Our student centers are staffed by indigenous workers who are committed to administering healthy child development to the poor children in their communities. Sponsorship helps your child, but it also benefits your child’s family and community.

Sponsoring Children in Africa

Sponsoring children in Africa is a wonderful opportunity to give hope to a child who lives in an area that is plagued by problems, including widespread malnutrition, high child mortality rates, low life expectancy and a high population of people affected by the HIV/AIDS pandemic. Many children in Africa struggle with hardships created by drought, famine, extreme poverty and violent local conflicts. By sponsoring a child in this region, you have the opportunity to forever change the life of a child in need. Sponsoring a child gives one little boy or girl the chance to develop into a responsible, caring Christian adult, and later have a positive impact in his or her own communities, churches and nations. In Africa, where the need is significant, people who are sponsoring children through Compassion are making a profound difference — one child at a time.

Sponsoring a Child Makes a Profound Difference in Africa

The profound difference sponsoring a child in Africa makes can been seen in the story of Ephantus Ngugi, a child of Kenya.

Ephantus grew up in poverty in the Dandora slum, which is essentially Nairobi’s garbage dump. The crime, disease, and substance abuse surrounding Ephatus threatened his survival. Going to school was a distant dream. Yet because of Compassion’s commitment to sponsoring children in Africa, Ephantus has excelled and grown into a healthy, conscientious Christian man. He was even a keynote speaker at his graduation from the Compassion-assisted Dandora Baptist Child Development Center in 2001. Using vocational skills he learned at the Center, Ephantus plans to attend a university and form a computer consulting agency. But he’s not leaving his hometown and will continue to minister to the lost in Dandora.

By sponsoring children in Africa, people are making lasting differences in children’s lives. You can help create your own success story. Sponsor a child today!

Compassion — A Responsible International Charitable Organization

We at Compassion know that sponsoring a child is a blessing. But we also know sponsors want to be sure their sponsorship is administered by a reputable international charitable organization.

Compassion has earned recognition from numerous publications and accountability groups, such as:

• Forbes “Giving Smartly” Charities 2001 Listing

• The NonProfit Times’ “Top 100 Revenues”

• The Chronicle of Philanthropy’s “Philanthropy 400”

• The American Institute of Philanthropy’s “Top Rated Charities”

Compassion is also a member of several accrediting agencies, including:

• Evangelical Council For Financial Accountability (founding member)

• Better Business Bureau Wise Giving Alliance

As an international charitable organization committed to integrity, we have made our financial information easily accessible. Sponsors can view Compassion’s annual audits to see where money is spent. Eighty percent of the charity donations we receive are spent directly on children in need. We even have program audits to measure the effectiveness of our programs on the lives of children.

Sponsoring a Child through Compassion

Sponsoring a child allows you to share your love, prayers and support with one boy or girl in need. Through sponsorship you can provide hope to a desperate child in need, letting them know there is someone who cares about him or her. On Compassion’s web site, you can read testimonials from people sponsoring a child through Compassion and from children being sponsored. View photos of children who need your love and support. Have Compassion select a child for you, or search for a child using a number of different criteria.

Sponsoring a child allows one special little girl or boy to grow healthy, become educated, and hear about Jesus Christ. Sponsoring a child through Compassion’s Child Sponsorship Program helps children become responsible, caring Christian adults.