Millions of African extended families are heavily burdened, caring for their relatives' AIDS-orphaned children. Read the details of how Kebede cares for his nine AIDS-orphaned nieces and nephews, including 11-year-old Dejene who is sponsored through the Compassion Ethiopia program.
As Compassion prepares to start ministering to children in Bangladesh and Burkina Faso, it's encouraging to look back on all that's been accomplished during our first year in Nicaragua.
Carla and her little sister, Carolina, were born into a home characterized by alcoholism and abuse. But when the girls' parents came to know the love of Christ, their family was transformed.
Life is hard in Haiti. Thanks to the commitment of his Compassion sponsors, Port-au-Prince artist Florestal strives -- with truth and hope in every brush stroke -- to tell the story of this struggling Caribbean nation.
Experts say Ethiopia's current drought has the potential to surpass the devastation of 1984 that claimed more than one million lives. More than 5,000 Compassion-assisted children and their families have averted starvation because of Compassion's Disaster Relief Fund.
