Improving Environmental Stewardship
Compassion is doing our part to help communities that are vulnerable to severe weather events, protecting our God-given environment and those who call it home.
How We Work
Compassion’s Growing Capacity To Address Environmental Degradation
Compassion is committed to addressing the effects of environmental degradation in every level of our organization. We firmly believe that we are called to be stewards of God’s creation and we work to address and mitigate the impacts of severe weather events and environmental degradation at both the local and global level.
Our emerging environmental stewardship services include:
Organizational sharing of weather information and research with national offices and affected communities.
Monitoring and tracking to anticipate the impacts of severe weather events and environmental degradation.
Using satellite data as an early warning system.
Resilience planning.
Education around watershed management and resilient agricultural practices.
Visualizing food insecurity data for Compassion communities.
This informs local decision-makers and enables Compassion to target responses to the global food crisis.
Child-Focused Preparedness
Officers of vulnerable countries are adopting child-focused severe weather and disaster preparedness. One initiative is the Participatory Approach for Safe Shelter Awareness, from the Philippines, that is modified specifically to address youth.
This tool equips youth with rapid response protocols for disasters and solicits innovations to build resilience for future disasters and severe weather events.
Raising Youth Awareness of Environmental Stewardship
Compassion is actively raising youth awareness of environmental resilience and stewardship through our Creation Care Toolkit. This toolkit offers resources for youth leadership in creation care awareness.
Mobilizing Communities for Creation Care
Compassion supports its local church partners in community mobilization for creation care awareness and mitigation through environmental stewardship approaches, including:
Ecosystem restoration.
Regenerative agriculture.
Climate-smart practices.
Nature-based solutions.
Ecosystem-based watershed management approaches.
Ecosystem services improvement.
Circular economy practices that promote redemptive, regenerative principles.
Addressing Our Carbon Footprint
Compassion is also addressing the carbon footprint of our operations by:
Conducting baseline and periodic measurements of the greenhouse gas emissions resulting from our U.S.-based operations.
Transitioning to renewable energy.
Recycling.
Stories of Impact
The Church Steps Up for Hungry Families
See the progress being made in the fight against hunger by unifying as a global Church — a powerful network that includes local churches, community members, Compassion and you!
Meet Sophy: Sharing the Gospel Through Food in Cambodia
Meeting Jesus changed Sophy’s life. And now, she’s working with him to change the lives of others through warm meals and the gospel.
Hope After the Storm: Disaster Relief After Cyclone Ditwah
After Cyclone Ditwah tore through Sri Lanka, many families were left homeless and hungry. But Compassion’s local church partners stepped in, offering critical disaster relief and giving them hope after the storm. Thevisha’s family was one of them.