Yes! Our website allows you to send the same message to all of your sponsored children. When you go to the Christmas writing pages, you’ll be able to select multiple children and then choose the design and write the message that you want to go to all of them.

To use this function, you must be logged in to your myCompassion account. You can of course still send individual messages to each child if you prefer.

When you send a Christmas greeting online or through the Compassion UK App, it gets printed in our field office in your sponsored child’s country, then sent on to their project to be hand-delivered.

Some of our field offices operate in extremely challenging environments and don’t have the technology to print on card. “Greeting” is therefore a more accurate description of what your sponsored child receives. Our new Christmas greetings templates have been specially designed to reflect this – what you see on your screen is exactly what your child will receive.

If you’d like your sponsored child to receive a more traditional Christmas card, you can send one to the Compassion offices. We’ll scan and send it digitally so your child receives it promptly, but we’ll also send on the original card. Please do write both your Compassion reference number and your child’s reference number on the card. Thank you for your heart for encouraging your sponsored child this Christmas time!

Christmas celebrations will vary from country to country, and church to church, depending on local social distancing guidelines. If quarantines and social distancing guidelines are in place, children’s presents will be hand-delivered rather than being distributed at a Christmas party at the project. Our project staff will hand select a gift according to each child’s needs. This year, this is likely to be shoes, clothes and in some cases food packages.