Protecting the Vulnerable Before, During & After Disaster
Through disaster preparedness training, response, and resilience building, Compassion protects vulnerable children and families going through crises.
How We Work
Compassion and its local church partners assist communities through child-focused disaster preparedness, response, and resilience building, including through the provision of sustained access to food, energy and water.
Compassion’s disaster response relies on a program that uses data systems from environmental services enabled by Compassion and managed by local partners.
These systems are driving resource decisions to meet the lifesaving needs of children and households experiencing crises around the globe.
Recent large scale responses include:
Ethiopia
Since 2021, Compassion has responded to widespread ethnic conflict in Ethiopia that has threatened the lives of tens of thousands of families.
Compassion’s church partners have delivered water, sanitation and hygiene interventions, protection, food relief, trauma care services and training to long-term program participants as well as other communities in need.
Burkina Faso
In response to conflict-induced food insecurity in Burkina Faso, we expanded our local church-based partnerships to better serve affected communities through services such as educational access, food and income generation.
Malawi
Malawi has experienced severe droughts, storms and floods that have pushed thousands of households into extreme vulnerability.
Compassion provides resilience building through disaster risk reduction throughout the country. Compassion’s local church partners also provide lifesaving humanitarian support for households displaced by cyclones.
Uganda
Based on its growing presence and local knowledge in Uganda since 1980, Compassion co-designed with local leaders the Karamoja Integrated Community Action Resilience Project to build community resilience among vulnerable families.
Approximately 16,000 people in targeted communities participate in work to:
Improve water infrastructure for agriculture and domestic consumption.
Strengthen early warning and disaster risk management mechanisms.
Develop functional literacy and entrepreneurship skills for improved agriculture, food security and accessibility.
Stories of Impact
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