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The home of Compassion blogs, stories and prayers.

25 Christmas Bible Verses

This is What happens When, Together, We Empower Children to Realise Their Dreams

What Do Compassion Graduates Think About Our Work

How to Write a Great Christmas Greeting to Your Sponsored Child

Maureen’s Story Shows the Power in Opportunity

Thankful Bible Verses to Encourage You

How Our Work Supports the UN Sustainable Development Goals

37 Encouraging Bible Verses To Inspire You

Pastor Barthelemy’s Church Shares the Message ‘God is With Us!’

Bible Verses About Faith and Hope

The Power of Love, Faith, and Compassion in Changing Lives

“God With Me”: Emanuel’s Story of Hope

Bible Verses About Helping Others

Bible Verses About Hope

God’s Promises: 50+ Powerful Bible Promises To Build Your Faith

Free Printable Positive Affirmations For Children

25 Bible Verses About Peace To Help During Uncertainty

Healing from Trauma: How Compassion Graduate Doreen Helps At-Risk Girls Rebuild Their Lives

Sponsor A Girl

For We Live by Faith, Not by Sight

34 Bible Verses About Friendship

Friendship Quotes To Share On International Friendship Day

11 Fun Family Activities to Keep You Entertained

How One Father is Taking a Stand Against FGM

Abandoned in a Drain: The Astonishing Survival and Adoption of Baby Miracle

How Does a Compassion Project Work?

“God Prepared A Home For Us”

Father’s Day Bible Verses: 22 Scriptures You Can Share As a Gift

Sparking Hope: 9 Ways Your Sponsorship is Making a Difference

The Global Food Crisis: 9 Photos Capture The Human Face Of Hunger

The Global Food Crisis and its Devastating Impact

How One Phone Call Saved Two Lives

The Next Generation: Meet 3 Remarkable Young Changemakers

5 Easy Ways to Volunteer For 5 Minutes

How Compassion’s Child Survival Project in Togo Provided Life-saving Support for Adjowa and Her Baby

“Why I Sponsor A Child” – Philippa Hanna

Gift Aid: A Simple Choice That Can Do Even More

How 5 Girls From Kenya Invented An App to Fight FGM

Finding Holy Ground: How the Gospel Transforms Lives Today

This Compassion Graduate is Shaping the Future of the Ugandan Church

It Takes a Team to Empower a Child

15 Easter Bible Verses To Celebrate Jesus’ Resurrection

A Mother’s Heart: Caring for my Son with ASD Amidst Poverty and Prejudice

Hot Cross Bun Recipe and an Inspirational Easter Devotional

5 Easter Gifts to Bring you Joy, Reflection and to Bless Others

Egodine’s Diary: The Day Safe Water Came

5 Strong Women of the Bible and their Modern-day Counterparts

Little Prayer Warriors: 3 Children and Their Powerful Faith Journeys

Florence and Her School: 413 Girls Saved from FGM and Early Marriage

Jean’s Story: “My Life is an Extraordinary Thing”

25 Eye-opening Photos of Classrooms Around the World

The Little Library that is Helping Children Dream Big!

40 Inspiring Bible Verses About Love

Is There Life Beyond The Landfill?

31 New Year Bible Verses To Inspire Hope

5 Ethical Gifts to Help You Shop Compassionately This Christmas

Free Prayer Journal Templates

7 Day Wellness Action Plan Inspired by Sponsored Children

Free Baby Knitting Patterns: A Gift To You

Eco Christmas Wrapping Paper: 4 Ways to Make Your Own

For YOU! Enjoy these 7 Christmas gifts, with our thanks and appreciation

Graham Kendrick: Why Christmas Begins with a Child

25 Cute Baby Photos With Smiles To Brighten Your Day!

Clear The Bench: Why These 3 Children Will Not Be Side-lined

African and Caribbean Heritage Churches: A Growing Force For Social Action

5 Powerful Prayers for Climate Change

Pressure Makes A Diamond: How One Girl Overcame Poverty

Young Girls with Dreams Become Women with Vision

12 Powerful Photos Show How Food Prices Have Skyrocketed Around The World

Restoration and Hope: How You’ve Helped Haiti Families Rebuild After Devastation

Why Help People in Other Countries When There’s Poverty in the UK?

Sponsor a Child in Africa: Empower Them to Overcome Poverty

Meet 3 Frontline Heroes Fighting Hunger During the Global Food Crisis

The Global Food Crisis and Your Sponsored Child: Your Questions Answered

The First in My Family

Thai Cave Rescue: The Faith Behind The Hollywood Film ‘Thirteen Lives’

Child Marriage: 4 Remarkable Girls Speak Out to Stop the Weddings

3 Stories of Radical Love and Reconciliation From Rwanda

This is How it Felt to go Hungry as a Child

World Hunger: 5 Devastating Truths We All Need to Know

Running Out of Patience with Corruption

Child Marriage: Stop the Weddings

Taking on the World: 11 Children in Poverty Share Their Dreams

Powering the Future in Uganda

How Do I Talk About My Holiday in Letters to My Sponsored Child?

7 Surprising Journeys to School from Around the World

Your Words, Their Treasure: How Kind Letters Make a Difference

Birthday Bible Verses: 27 Inspirational Scriptures that You can Share as a Gift

I’m Not Sure I Can Continue My Sponsorship. What Should I Do?

Rwandan Pancake Recipe

Food From Togo: Cook Authentic Peanut Stew

Our Amazing Frontline Church Partners and How We Find Them

A Matter of Survival: Ama’s Story of Hope and Transformation

7 Beautiful Open Letters from Togolese Mothers in Compassion’s Child Survival Programme

Akouvi’s Story: One Mother’s Experience of Loss, Survival and Hope

My Journey from a Prison Cell to a Graduation Podium

3 Free New Year Gifts to Celebrate the Impact You’ll Have in 2022

The Difference You’ve Made in 2022

A Parent’s Perspective: 10 Insights into Daily Life in Poverty

A Time for Action: Climate Change and its Impact on Global Development

Miracles Truly Exist: How Child Sponsorship Reunited a Family

A Beautiful Survivor: Finding Hope After Tragedy

Parenting, Poverty and Progress: a Free Family Discipleship Resource

Child Slavery On Lake Volta: 15 Photos To Make You Think

Girls and Computers: How Compassion Helps Girls Conquer the Digital Gender Gap

Indigo Valley: Selling Ethical Coffee for God’s Glory

35 Children Quotes to Warm Your Heart

5 Innovators Helping Solve an Education Crisis

Prayers for the world today

5 Things To Do With The Kids To Keep Them Entertained This Holiday

God’s Family: How One Young Woman Found Her Forever Home

How to Make a Football From Plastic Bags

Period Poverty: Tackling the Menstruation Taboo

Talent and Tenacity: How One Young Woman in Togo is Achieving Her Dreams

One Rwandan Teen’s Story: From Poverty to Award Winning Inventor

Taste and See that the Lord is Good!

38 Bible Verses About Strength In Hard Times

How To Write Your Sponsored Child In A Time Of Crisis

Dreaming Big: 9 Talented Young Entrepreneurs Share Their Story

Modern Day Miracles: 5 Stories of Healing and Hope

Room for Hope: 25 Striking Photos of Bedrooms Around the World

Water Interventions: How Can Clean Water Make a Difference?

‘Be Still and Know That I Am God’: The Meaning of Psalm 46:10

If Poverty Could Speak to You, What Would it Say?

The Unshakable Faith of 8 Inspiring Women Around the World

Can Kindness Transform A Child’s Future?

I Will Never See My Children Starve Again

A Colombian Grandmother’s Hopeful Letter to Her Baby Grandson

An Exciting Update from Our Church Partners Around the World

We Stopped Sharing Sponsored Children’s Full Names. Here’s Why.

Why Now is the Time to Sponsor a Child

The Good Samaritan: How to Love Your Neighbour in a Hurting World

25 Different Types of Houses From Around the World

Strength in Unity: How One Rwandan Community is Overcoming Poverty

Peruvian Hot Chocolate Gift Idea

In Photos: Why Children are the Hidden Victims of this Pandemic

25 Bible Verses About Children

25 Bible Verses On Forgiveness To Bring You Peace

Protected From Child Marriage: Maindi’s Story Told in 10 Photos

What is Poverty? The Definitions of Poverty

Step Into Her Shoes: 6 Girls Share Their Lives In Lockdown

Why Your Efforts to Tackle Child Poverty Matter Now More than Ever

Where Are They Now? Meet 15 Remarkable Compassion Graduates

12 Heartfelt Thank You Messages from Around the World

Prayers of Encouragement Written by You, Our Supporters

Different Path One Year On: How Your Generosity is Bringing Hope

Coronavirus Video Updates From Compassion’s Three Regions

A Future Free From Child Labour

5 Surprising Acts of Coronavirus Kindness to Inspire You

“We Will Stop at Nothing”

Welcome to the World: Meet 8 Remarkable Babies Born in Lockdown

COVID-19 And Your Sponsored Child: Your Questions Answered

15 Testimonies From Those Facing COVID-19 in a Poverty Context

5 Reasons Why COVID-19 will Impact Those in Poverty the Hardest

8 Holy Week Devotionals That Point Us To Hope

15 Striking Photos from Remote Compassion Projects Around the World

The Scars Remain, but the Pain is Gone

A Life of Hope in a World Destroyed by Drugs

17 Celebratory Photos of Birthdays Around the World

The Scientist Mum Making waves in Marine Biology

How This Teenager Found Hope Amidst Drugs, Gangs and Prostitution

From Poverty to Compassion National Director

15 of Your Most Loved Stories This Year

Meet the Unstoppable Girls and the 7 Challenges They’re Overcoming

How to Live When You Don’t Exist

Why this Archers’ Actress Loves Being ‘Granny June’ to her Sponsored Child

How Running For Compassion Changed Me

The 12-year-old Blind Boy Fighting Disability Injustice

Loved Features of the Compassion UK App (That You May Not Have Discovered Yet)

The Tear-jerking Meeting 11 Years in The Making

From a Cardboard Box to a Seeker of Justice

“I Am Beautiful As I Am”

Which of the World’s Most Extreme Jobs Could You Do?

3 Women Who Inspire Naomi Scott

As Christians, What Can We Do When Faced With The Reality Of Poverty?

In The Face of Unthinkable Trauma, Chemine Has Overcome

Naomi Scott: Meet the Woman Behind the Big Screen

Psalm 23: The Lord is My Shepherd

15 Fascinating Family Portraits From Around The World

What Happens When Your Family Tries To Poison You

Visit The Town That Saw Malaria Deaths Drop To Zero

Delicious Easter Biscuit Recipe From Honeywell Biscuits

Update: Praise God, Kauany Is Now Cancer Free!

A Different Path: 8 Stunning Portraits of Mums Defeating Poverty

Meet The Courageous Grandma Raising 3 Kids In Her 70s

30 Photos That Will Help You Appreciate Your Tap and Toilet

How Bravery Healed My Bruised Heart

When Charitable Giving Makes a Demonstrable, Proven Difference

What My Sponsor Means To Me: 6 Inspirational Stories

What Advice Would You Pass Onto The Next Generation Of Women?

This 10-Year-Old Was Accused of Witchcraft But Rescued by Love

22 Powerful Photographs That Will Challenge Your Perception of Poverty

How to Climb Kilimanjaro for Charity: Your Ultimate Guide

Your Top 15 Letter-Writing Questions, Answered

From Gang Member to Pastor

10K Training Plan: How to Train for a 10K That Changes Lives

Could Impacting the Life of One Child in Poverty, Change an Entire Community?

Voices from Children Facing Poverty and Disability

From Abandoned Baby to Miracle

Securing Citizenship for a Refugee

Children Should Never Know Poverty Like This

My Alopecia Story: How Poverty Led to Hair Loss

What to Expect When You’re Expecting in Togo

25 Photos of Young Lives Transformed: the Difference the Local Church Makes

What’s in Your School Bag? 15 Photos from Around the World

Inspirational Quotes by Mother Teresa

How to Take Great Photos that Change the World

16 Questions Most Sponsors Ask, Answered

Guvna B: Guvna talks music, ‘Unpopular Culture’ and justice

My Journey From My Couch To Running Half Marathons In Africa

They Tried to Kill My Daughter Because She Was Different

9 Photos of Children in Poverty With Their Most Prized Possession

How God Provided When I Was Left Alone to Battle Depression

31 Beautiful Pictures of the World

World Malaria Day: How a Mosquito Net Can Save a Child’s Life

The Boy Who Was Bullied Because of a Lack of Water

Celebrating Easter: 12 Amazing Easter Traditions Around The World

How Relentless Love Stopped a Family From Falling Apart

What is Compassion? And How Can I Be More Compassionate?

The Anti-child Trafficking Warrior

How to write a wonderful letter to your sponsored child

7 moving cancer stories from around the world

Protecting Girls from FGM

How to teach children about poverty

Leprosy forced this single mum to give birth alone and abandoned

How does child sponsorship help a child’s family?

Introducing singer-songwriter Chloe Reynolds

29 good news stories on the 29th World Aids Day

Is child sponsorship ethical?

3 remarkable answered prayers to encourage you today

Why I turned the tide on men’s magazine culture

The blue eyed baby no longer abandoned

Meet the Ghanaian kids who deserve star baker

5 uplifting stories of broken families restored

I’m no longer an orphan

Why doesn’t Compassion work in conflict zones?

Gang crime, gunshots and redemption

The great-grandpa living in a carpark to provide for his grandson

“I thought I was rubbish, but I am not”

At London Fashion Week with Charlotte Maslin Knight

A 3 minute guide to the East Africa drought

13 uplifting quotes from teachers around the world

7 tips for overcoming the fear of public speaking

In photos: 6 teen entrepreneurs lifting their parents out of poverty

How Zika changed Bryan’s life forever

Tale of Two : An Interview with Nathan Tasker

How do you choose a child to sponsor?

Meet the mum on a mission to protect children

Married too young in Mexico

The parents’ perspective: what it means when your child is sponsored

Albinism in Tanzania: living in fear

Why poverty isn’t just a girl thing

100 things I want my kids to know

A Tanzanian adventure through a child’s eyes

Rescued from a voodoo temple

A letter from an unlikely runner

Running in Rwanda: my half marathon diary

A Letter to my Sponsor

Tell me about your world: British kids interview children in Tanzania

In the midst of tragedy: visiting Ethiopia 3 days after the rubbish landslide

Noemi and the flood

One month on: a reflection on India

Behind the scenes heroes

7 tiny stories of sponsorship bringing big change

How one pair of shoes sent a girl to school

Happy Mother’s Day from Tanzania

3 of the bravest women you’ll meet this week

Turning 10 might be the most important birthday in a girl’s life

Welding her way out of poverty

How You Started a Movement in India

Lily-Jo’s journey of music and motherhood

You can do it!

25 Gorgeous Pictures of Churches Around The World

Letters of love

Mending a broken heart

The mum of 13 who has room for more

Mums on a mission: saving lives through literacy

When cancer strikes twice

Your free prayer bookmark

7 kids you’ve taught to read

5 ways to help a child follow their dreams

The baby in the bushes

“We survive”: Haiti after the hurricane

Shattering the grip of poverty

The cancer survivor on his way to becoming a football star

A cause worth running for

Brave and determined: one mum’s journey out of forced marriage

The mum battling HIV with a sewing machine

A Story Changed

Don’t let her stand alone

The siblings who overcame tragedy

The best we have to give: 11 rights of the child

Justin’s blog: the greatest role model

A letter to you from a father in poverty

19 Ways You Can Show Kindness Today

The land of a thousand smiles

Bake off with Benjamina

The children who lived through Hurricane Matthew

In Photos: Haiti After Hurricane Matthew

My story of survival

Any girl

Why educating girls matters

Who made your coffee this morning?

Warrior

The sponsored child who tried Alpha

15 fashion-forward kids

A mum at 14

Winning the race after polio

What’s The Child I sponsor learning?

Excelling against the odds

Food from the field

Mobilising against the mosquito

Planting a better future

Fight like a girl

Our top 3 summer crafts

My first day as CEO

School’s out for summer

The women who made us

A safe place to play

“The next Roger Federer”

In her own words

Sneak peek: Alexie’s story

Give a child a place to call home

The girl who slept in an avocado tree

Revelations in Rwanda

Raising Pidsinee

Understanding Africa

Why Africa isn’t the country you think it is

Walking to school with wild beasts

Working no more

In the classroom and on the football pitch

The unexpected visitor

We prayed and the rain stopped

39 miles, 8 hours, 34 degrees

“In our own small way”

Your words matter

A déjà vu famine?

“He is not alone”

Send a photo to your sponsored child!

Educating Songwut

One child given hope in a slum of despair

My sponsor kept me in school

The Eurovision star who sponsors a child

Guvna B talks Secret World and sponsorship

It works

“Mummy I am full”

Rewrite the story

“My name is Alima”

Ending the wait to see the doctor

Have you got a minute?

The fight to free Enoc

The streets of Port-Au-Prince

New eyes

From poverty to prosecutor and industrial engineer

Forgiving his parents’ killers

Rose’s Pancit Noodle recipe

“You cannot put a price on hope”

Overcoming Tuberculosis

Vanessa’s diary

Matt Redman: Giving to the poor as an act of worship

From a lost little boy to a firefighter!

Meet Written In Kings

Women’s voices matter

A mother’s strength

Unbreakable faith

“I’m seven months pregnant in the midst of Zika”

Why do they have a mobile phone?

“It takes a village to raise a child”

Are you sitting comfortably?

Stop for the one

5 thoughts from a Volunteer

“I want to be an electrical engineer”

Fashion and Compassion

Why I speak up for children in poverty

Sneak preview: Sameson’s story

8 Reasons we Sponsor 8 Children

Hugs without limbs in Colombia

5 reflections on God’s outrageous love

What Christmas means to me – Richmond

Tale of Two : An Interview with Chris and Nikki Uglow (L.E.D. Band)

An Interview with Ben Cantelon

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