The lack of food and income threatens children with illness and lost potential.

Sources: UNICEF, World Bank

1 in 4

children under 5 worldwide live in severe food poverty, putting them at risk of life-threatening malnutrition.

60%

of rural households in low-and middle-income countries depend on animals like chickens to make a living.

Nearly 10%

of people worldwide live in extreme poverty, surviving on less than $3 per day.

Two girls wearing flannel shirts are crouched on the ground posing for a picture at their family's chicken farm. They are surrounded by black and brown chickens.
Learn About the Impact of Chickens

How Chickens Change Lives

When you give chickens, you help a family get a reliable source of nutrition and a sustainable way to generate income. Six-year-old Valentina and her family in Mexico were given 20 hens and started selling eggs. Within a year, they had a thriving business. Now, the family has 700 hens that produce around 300 eggs a day.

Nutritious Food

  • Fresh eggs.

  • Healthy meat.

  • Fertilizer to grow food.

Income Generation

  • Chickens and baby chicks can be sold for money.

  • Eggs can also be sold at the market.

Training & Support

  • Families learnhow to care for chickens.

  • Parents learn small-business skills.

children at compassion center

Your Contributions Are Stewarded Wisely

Every gift you give through Compassion is handled with integrity and care. We follow strict financial guardrails to ensure accountability, transparency and the flexibility to invest wisely for long-term impact.

We invest every dollar in one of three ways

  1. Implementing our program today

  2. Inviting the next child (and their supporter) into the program

  3. Sustaining and enhancing our ability to deliver excellent programs

These investments are typically referred to as “Program,” “Fundraising” and “Administrative” expenses, respectively. Compassion’s rigorous annual strategic planning and budgeting process determines the resources allocated to Program, Fundraising and Administration. Our policy is to ensure that 75 to 82 cents on the dollar will always be allocated to Program expenses.

A girl wearing an orange shirt smiles and holds one of the chicks she and her family raise to sell.

Buy a Chicken for Kids Like Juna

Juna’s father worked long hours as a motorcycle taxi driver but didn’t make enough money to buy the food his family needed.

When Juna’s family received a gift of 30 chickens, along with training from Juna’s Compassion center, they were able to feed themselves and generate income. Now they have more than 200 chickens on their thriving farm.

“Thanks to the center and donors’ support, we can provide for our families and grow our businesses,” says Juna’s mom, Katerine. “I feel like an entrepreneur woman!”