Featured Stories

Featured Stories
  • Growing Up As a Girl in Poverty

    May 03, 2011

    In the Maasai community males are to be respected while females are neglected. For Patience, a mother of six girls, the struggle to protect her daughters became too much to bear alone.

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  • How Does the Child Survival Program Help a Baby in Poverty?

    Apr 18, 2011

    Unable to feed her youngest enough food, Sarasvathi watched as her baby lost weight. The Child Survival Program saw her need and brought help.

  • Families Struggle to Find Clean Water

    Mar 21, 2011

    With its trees, mountains and beaches, West Sumba Island in Indonesia looks like a lush paradise. Yet severe poverty is a part of everyday life here, and villagers struggle just to find clean water.

  • Bringing the Gospel to Prisoners

    Mar 14, 2011

    At a young age Mafelin was a leader, but her rebellious spirit worked against her.

  • Sponsorship Beyond the Child Development Center

    Mar 01, 2011

    Compassion-assisted child Riohnel came to the center every day very tired and wearing torn clothes, even after training hygiene from the Child Development Center.   A Compassion worker discovered that Riohnel's mother sold his clothes and school supplies to get money.  Now, Riohnel lives with his grandfather who takes good care of him.

  • The Toll of Poverty on Motherhood

    Feb 01, 2011

    Glenda was a single mother, pregnant, abandoned and abused. She worked selling water hoping to provide for her children. The Child Survival Program came alongside her before it was too late.

  • The Path That God Paved

    Jan 26, 2011

    Poverty had a path ready for Ivoneide. She lived in a shack in a poor community with an abusive father. A sponsor and the Leadership Development Program put her on God's path.