Celebrate Back to School With Your Sponsored Child

As your kids head back to school, here are some fun ideas about this fall season from our Second Friday Letter Writing Club on Pinterest of what to write in your next letter to the child you sponsor.
Continue Reading ›Literacy: Turning Mirrors into Windows

Rather than just telling their pupils the importance of seeking education, these workers in Thailand are showing them with their own lives that the poverty of education is a battle that can be won, no matter your age.
Continue Reading ›Being a Compassion Family

Sponsoring these children was initially my idea as a mom, but these relationships have become a family affair – and we’re all better off for it.
Continue Reading ›‘Poverty, Inc.’: The Global Poverty Industry

How does Compassion measure up to the ideas about the global poverty industry presented in the documentary ‘Poverty, Inc.’?
Continue Reading ›The Business of Fair Trade

The words fair trade get thrown around a lot. But what does it really mean? Can for-profit businesses really be a part of helping to alleviate poverty and advocate for human rights?
Continue Reading ›How to Make Ethiopian Coffee
Watch how moms make Ethiopian coffee from roasting beans and grinding in a press, to brewing in water and being enjoyed by all.
Share Your Favorite Sport with Your Sponsored Child

Sports are universally loved. Use these fun ideas for your favorite sport to connect with the child you sponsor!
Continue Reading ›The Instagram Prayers of Sponsors

One Instagram photo sparked an outpouring of likes and comments like we’ve never seen – and the passionate prayers of Compassion sponsors.
Continue Reading ›A Real Life

Help us play a real part in releasing more children from poverty by joining Release3.
Continue Reading ›Why Your Sponsored Child is a Hero

The child you sponsor is a remarkable hero with a story changed by hope.
Continue Reading ›Compassion International is a Child Development Organization

The difference between being a child sponsorship organization and a child development organization is subtle … but significant.
Continue Reading ›Compassion Internship: A Summer Well Spent

Five summer interns share the highlights of their experience at Compassion and the impact of working to release children from poverty in Jesus’ name.
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