Christ-centred
Church-based
Child-focused
As a global neighbourhood of over 40 countries, we partner with more than 8,500 local church partners to support over 2 million children.
Compassion addresses poverty through holistic child development to meet the unique physical, socio-emotional, cognitive and spiritual needs of children. Our local church partners ensure every child will receive a good education, nutrition, clean water and healthcare, alongside opportunities to grow spiritually and develop positive relationships.
Compassion International is a charity accredited by the Better Business Bureau’s Wise Giving Alliance, a founding member of the Evangelical Council for Financial Accountability and a top-rated charity by Charity Watch.
Jaruwan is 13 years old and lives in a church dormitory connected to her local Compassion centre in Thailand. To collect water, Jaruwan and her friends often need to walk down the hill from their centre multiple times a day. But the water there is not clean. Children in Jaruwan's community suffer from waterborne and skin diseases caused by poor sanitation.
But thanks to generous supporters, our local church partners were able to install a clean water system. There are 512 children at Jaruwan's Compassion centre and within the first year of this intervention, the number of children with waterborne diseases reduced from 31 per cent to 10 per cent.
Jaruwan is delighted that she now lives in a place where she can keep healthy. "I can have a clean shower and wash my clothes," she says. "And me and my friends and other kids don't have a skin rash anymore!"
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