Five Ways to Take Great Photographs of Kids
How can we take photographs of people that treat them with dignity? Here are five ways in which our photographers strive to take great photos of kids.
You Are Not Helpless, You Are Empowered
One of Satan’s favorite tactics is to make you feel impotent. To get you to believe that no matter what you do, it won’t make a difference.
Expressing Need While Maintaining Dignity
How should we express the urgent needs of the children in our programs while maintaining their dignity?
Purple
Purple is associated with royalty. It symbolizes wisdom, nobility and ambition. It communicates wealth and extravagance. But it’s also the color of dignity – something you’re helping give to children in poverty.
Roberto Medrano: My Best Day in Ministry
Roberto Medrano has worked for Compassion for seven years and now serves as a Learning and Support Specialist for communication and tours in the Central America and Caribbean region.
We must ignite passion for children in poverty, to the glory of God. Nobody is garbage.
You can also view the Comfort the Afflicted and Afflict the Comfortable video on YouTube.
A Picture of Poverty
I recently got back from India where I was with a team of people interviewing children and their families so we can share their stories and photos with you – Compassion sponsors.
At almost every home we visited, the families were so excited to receive us that they put together mini-feasts. At most homes we…
Maintaining Dignity
Hello everyone. My name is Rick Carter, and I work for Compassion in Asia as part of the communications team.
My team is responsible for bringing you the stories that talk about our child development centers in Asia, such as A Day in the Life of a Child Development Center Worker or A New Beginning…
Slumdog Millionaire and Poverty Tourism
Last weekend I saw the movie Slumdog Millionaire. Have you heard of it? If you haven’t by now, you surely will soon. Just this week it was nominated for several Oscars, including Best Picture. (By the way, in case you were wondering, I think it should win Best Picture.)
Slumdog Millionaire tells the story of…
All Aboard the Poverty Train
Are we, through our exposure trips, simply promoting another form of poverty tourism?
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