Your year-end gift is a beacon of hope in the despair of poverty.

1 in 5

Children live in extreme poverty around the world.

Over 4.5 Billion

People globally — over half the global population — lack access to essential health care.

Over 700 Million

People live without access to safe drinking water. 

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How We Use Your Donation

Your Gift Helps Meet Critical Needs

Millions of children face the overwhelming challenges of poverty every day. Your gift will be used where it’s needed most to offer hope.

Your gift could provide life-saving care for a child suffering from a severe medical condition. It could drill a community well, provide a center with electricity or even help build clean bathrooms.

The best part? Your gift empowers a local church to show children just how loved they are by God.

Disaster Relief

Deliver emergency food, clean water and support after a natural or man-made disaster.

Urgent Health Care

Provide medical visits, emergency surgeries, immunizations and trauma counseling to children in need.

Safe Water

Give access to clean water sources and sanitary bathroom facilities to prevent sickness.

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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.

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From our President and CEO

“Thank you for equipping our frontline church partners for the unplanned but critical needs that so often arise. When a child falls ill, when a natural disaster strikes, when conflict breaks out or when faced with unexpected opportunity to advance Compassion’s cause, we must be ready to extend God’s love and care without hesitation.”
Santiago “Jimmy” Mellado, Compassion International President and CEO