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Q&A With a Sponsor Tours and Visits Team Leader
Susan Rupia works for Compassion Kenya as Sponsor Tours and Visits Team Leader to co-ordinate sponsor visits when a supporter comes to the country to meet their sponsored child. What are the main responsibilities of your position? Planning, managing, co-ordinating and facilitating group trips; Delivering a rich experience of Compassion work. Desc ...
What Would You Ask God?
We asked a number of Compassion-assisted children what they would ask God. Here’s their incredible responses…
It’s No Sacrifice
As an employee of a large insurance company I get to deal with and process many thousands of pounds each day. Naturally, I can never switch off the need to know where every single penny I am responsible for goes. The same goes for my colleagues at work. I was chatting to a mate the other day about Emanuel my sponsored child and about going to Braz ...
From Kibera Slum to Nottingham University
My name is David Collins Owuor from Kenya, a beautiful country in East Africa. I am 25 years old and currently studying in Nottingham. I have been a Compassion sponsored child for almost twenty years having gone through the Child Sponsorship Programme and the Leadership Development Programme (LDP). I am sharing my life story to proclaim the love o ...
Junior’s Story – Resisting The Enemy
Drugs, crime, gang violence, child prostitution and alcohol are just some of the evils that constantly confront the children in our projects in Central and South America. Junior, from Ecuador, is an encouraging example of how child sponsorship can present young people with a better alternative for their lives.
Bible Distribution in Burkina Faso
Compassion exists to meet the needs of children living in extreme poverty and share with them the gospel of Jesus Christ. Every child is presented with their own age-appropriate copy of the Bible and sometimes it will get passed around several families in their village. Augustin Agui Sanou and his family live in the suburbs of Bobo-Dioulasso, the ...
Q&A With a Partnership Facilitator
Nyarko Twum Berima, known as Twum, is a Partnership Facilitator for Compassion Ghana. His role is to co-ordinate Compassion’s responsibilities with our Church Partners to ensure that the projects are achieving holistic child development. What did you do before coming to Compassion? I was pastoring a small church here Accra and also working ...
1,300 Children Sponsored at Spring Harvest!
Compassion UK has been blown away by the overwhelming number of children who have been given the hope of a better future because of our partnership with Spring Harvest this year. Building upon a great year at Spring Harvest in 2011, we were blessed with the opportunity to partner again and we are delighted with the way God has been using it for Hi ...
Compassion’s Response To Malaria
About 3.3 billion people – half of the world’s population – are at risk of malaria. Compassion’s President, Wess Stafford presents our holistic approach to tackling malaria. Insecticide mosquito nets cost just £3 each. You can help Compassion tackle malaria by sponsoring Compassion UK’s, Michelle O’Brien who ran the London ...
Left To Die Among the Thorns
Mahalakshmi stands tall at 11 years, with a charming, open smile that instantly draws people to her. She is in the seventh grade and attends India’s Ramakrishna Girls Higher Secondary School. The young Indian girl dreams of becoming a doctor. She is extremely talented – an excellent singer, artist and a good narrator of stories. However, hers is a ...
Confessions of a Compassion Worker
We all have those moments in our life that we’re rather embarrassed about. Those situations that we wish we could press the delete button on. It can be cathartic to confess these things, get them out in the open and move on. But in a way I hope what I’m about to confess will always be there – bugging me. Many, many years ago, when I thought I knew ...
Life in Peru
Compassion began its ministry in Peru in 1985 with the Child Sponsorship Programme. In 2003, both the Child Survival Programme and Leadership Development Programme began. Compassion Peru is currently serving around 50,000 mothers, children and students across all three programmes. Here’s a photo essay for you to connect what life is like fo ...
Ian Answers Your Questions!
We recently asked you to submit any questions you have for Compassion UK’s CEO, Ian Hamilton. Here are his answers…
Interview With Juan Buñay, Aged 7
Juan comes from an indigenous family living in the Cañar Province, in southern Ecuador. His mum and stepdad work in agriculture, farming peas, potatoes, corn and different sorts of beans. He comes from a Catholic background. What do you enjoy the most from all the things you do at the Compassion project? Here at the project I do my h ...
Photo Friday – Where Is Your Home?
I am in the process of buying a house. For me, it is a hugely stressful process. There always seems to be just one more thing that needs to be filed, one last piece of paper to be signed or one more conversation to be had. Yet at the end of the process, I will have a building that I will be able to make into a home; a place where I can participate ...
A Special Appointment
Not everybody gets the chance to meet their sponsored child, and that’s why a New Zealand television network picked up on this amazing story. Esther, from India, came to visit the family that changed her life. (NB: Compassion partners with Tearfund in finding sponsors for children in New Zealand.)