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As you exchange letters, send photos and offer encouragement in Jesus' name, your love will bring hope to a child that will last a lifetime. Sponsor a child today for only $38 per month!

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Your tax-deductible contribution of just $38 a month connects a child living in poverty with a loving, church-based Child Sponsorship Program.

Your support provides:

Medical checkups, which often save lives
Nutritious food
Health and hygiene training
Educational assistance
Access to special services like surgeries and disaster relief
Mentoring to help children discover their incredible value as God’s children
Most important of all, your sponsored child will hear about Jesus Christ and be encouraged to develop a lifelong relationship with God. Just imagine how exciting it will be when one day you get to heaven and your sponsored child is there with you because you chose to sponsor him or her.

When you sponsor a child, you'll receive your child's photo, personal story and a child sponsorship packet by mail in approximately 10 days.

When children find out they've been sponsored, the joy they feel is indescribable. Just knowing that someone across the globe cares means more than you can imagine. Sponsoring a child in need will profoundly change the future for your child, and will change your own life as well.

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My family and I are passionate about the work of Compassion and helping the poor. We have visited our sponsored children and it showed us the heartbreak of poverty and the hope brought through Compassion.

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Religion that God our Father accepts as pure and faultless is this: to look after orphans and widows in their distress and to keep oneself from being polluted by the world.

- James 1:27

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What you receive when you sponsor a child

Child sponsorship information packet
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Photos of your child
Option to send letters/photos electronically

Top Child Sponsorship FAQs

How long should my child sponsorship last?

Our Child Sponsorship Program offers you the opportunity to stay with a child for a number of years, usually through the school year in which the child reaches the age of 18 to 22 (varies by country).

While we hope that you will be able to continue your support of your sponsored child until he or she completes the program, we recognize that circumstances sometimes change. You may discontinue your child sponsorship at any time.

Please understand that a sponsored child's circumstances may change, too. For example, sometimes families move beyond the reach of our program and children no longer have the opportunity to participate.

We will inform you as quickly as possible if any such circumstance affects the child you sponsor, and we'll offer you the opportunity to sponsor another child in need of your help.

Does each child have only one sponsor?

Yes. Each child has only one sponsor, which is why the sponsor's prayers, letters and support mean so much to a child. We believe that the relationship that develops between sponsors and children is instrumental in a child's growth and development. In addition, this one-to-one relationship provides children with the message that they matter, that they are valuable and that someone outside of their family cares about them and their future.

If I must discontinue my child sponsorship, what happens to the child I’m helping?

How much does it cost to sponsor a child?

Where can I sponsor a child?

Currently we work in 25 countries, divided into four areas:

Africa: Burkina Faso, Ethiopia, Ghana, Kenya, Rwanda, Tanzania, Togo and Uganda.
Central America and the Caribbean: the Dominican Republic, El Salvador, Guatemala, Haiti, Honduras, Mexico and Nicaragua.
South America: Bolivia, Brazil, Colombia, Ecuador and Peru.
Asia: Bangladesh, Indonesia, the Philippines, Sri Lanka and Thailand.

Does sponsoring a child really work?

The short answer…yes! Sponsoring a child really does help release children from poverty in Jesus’ name. Dr. Bruce Wydick, Professor of Economics and International Studies at the University of San Francisco, set out to determine the impact of international child sponsorship.

Dr. Wydick found that children in Compassion’s Child Sponsorship Program are:

Up to 40% more likely to finish secondary education
Up to 80% more likely to graduate college
Up to 75% more likely to become leaders in their communities

His study focused on 1,860 formerly sponsored children from 16 Compassion child development centers. These once sponsored children were compared against 3,704 of their unsponsored siblings. By the end of the study, data was collected on more than 10,000 individuals in six developing countries.

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Can I sponsor a child in the United States?

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How does Compassion ensure that my support actually benefits the child I sponsor?

We work exclusively through local churches to assist children. Because child development centers tend to average about 180 children, the local staff can become personally acquainted with each sponsored child and his or her unique needs.

We conduct audits regularly to make sure funds are properly received, tracked and managed. Every financial process — from local child development centers to the Global Ministry Center in Colorado Springs — is regularly audited both internally and externally.

But it's not enough to ensure that funds are reaching your child's development center and being spent on planned activities. Like you, we want to be sure that real development is taking place in the life of every sponsored child. We work hard to monitor and evaluate each local center in terms of program effectiveness and long-term impact — right down to the individual child.

Why should I sponsor a child through Compassion International?

A focus on child development: Our program targets the needs of individual children first.

Working exclusively through local churches: We want sponsored children to view the benefits of child sponsorship as an expression of God's love for them. We also want to equip the Body of Christ in the countries where we work with effective child development ministries so that church leaders and members around the world can become effective child advocates in their communities.

A goal of child discipleship: We believe the most loving thing we can do for children is to introduce them to Jesus Christ. Here's why:

When children discover their worth to God, their self-esteem blossoms.
Children who recognize their roles as disciples are a strategic part of today's Church.
Children discipled in the Word and ways of God become our most potent weapon against tomorrow's poverty because they are tomorrow's Church.

Our goal, then, is to take a child from the brink of survival to abundant life as a disciple of Jesus Christ.

Sponsor a child today and transform despair into hope.

When you sponsor a child, you can exchange letters, photos and prayers. You can even choose to visit the child you sponsor.

You can change a child's life from one of hardship and loneliness to one of hope and meaning. You have the opportunity to literally bring the love of Christ to a child in need.

Compassion's ministry to children in poverty is unique. Our Child Sponsorship Program is:

Church Based. Compassion is the only child sponsorship organization that works exclusively with local evangelical churches in the developing world.
Christ Centered. Our ministry gives every child in our program the opportunity to hear about Jesus Christ.
Child Focused. Each child has one sponsor, someone like you, who exchanges letters, photos and prayers and provides necessities like food, health care and educational opportunities.

Sponsoring a child through Compassion allows you to witness a miracle firsthand, following your child's growth as as he or she is nurtured to health, educated and exposed to the gospel of Jesus Christ.

At Compassion, we say that nurturing a child, connecting that child to a local church and having someone like you in a child's life is the most strategic way to make a difference in the life of a child in need.

Change the life of a child in poverty. With your generous donation of only $38 a month, you can sponsor a child in poverty who will receive:

medical care
clean water and nutritional supplements
job skills training
mentoring and opportunities for personal development
the love and hope that only Christ can give

You may discontinue your child sponsorship at any time.

Each child deserves the hope of Jesus Christ. Will you give one child that blessing? Will you sponsor a child?

Give a child hope for the future and for all eternity. Sponsor a child today!