Bring Hope After Colombia's Earthquake
A powerful 7.4 magnitude earthquake devastated western Colombia, causing widespread damage, displacing families and claiming more than 300 lives.
Compassion has 36 church partners in the impacted region who are helping families find safe shelter, providing food through community kitchens and offering counseling.
Your gift can help bring recovery, hope and the love of Jesus to children and families in need.
Millions of people are threatened by disasters each year, especially children living in poverty.
7
Major disasters occur every week on average.
101.8M
People were affected by disasters in 2021 alone.
$252B
U.S. dollars in economic damage due to disasters in 2021.
Your gift helps the local church respond immediately.
When catastrophe strikes, children and families urgently need help. In communities facing poverty, most families have no savings to fall back on, no margin to recover on their own.
Your donation equips local churches to respond right away to meet immediate and critical needs such as food, clean water, safe shelter and medical care.
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
Implementing our program today
Inviting the next child (and their supporter) into the program
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 house is made of brick and concrete, and those can be rebuilt. But hope? If a child loses hope, that is something you cannot simply buy back. God did not leave us in the rubble, so we cannot leave our people in it either.”