Health Interventions

Compassion’s Health Interventions provide children with quality medical care including life-saving surgery, cancer treatment and more.

Donations enable us to provide proactive and reactive care to some of the world’s most vulnerable children. Our Health Interventions empower our church partners to run life-saving malnutrition, HIV and malaria awareness programmes to stop children getting sick in the first place.

The reality is...

2.1 billion people have no access to safe drinking water.

946 million people still use unimproved sanitation facilities, practising open defecation.

On average, women and children around the world spend 200 million hours every day collecting water.

With your help we can...

Build life saving wells and water tanks for Compassion-assisted children, their families and their communities.

Construct toilet blocks and give children, especially girls, the facilities and privacy they need.

Keep children in the classroom by removing the need for them to collect water.

You can protect children like Lavy against Hepatitis B

“I want to become a medical doctor when I grow up,” says eight-year-old Lavy from Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso. Lavy was inspired when he received a free vaccination from Dr. William, a visitor to his local Compassion project.

The vaccination programme, run by Compassion, protects children against Hepatitis B. This chronic viral disease causes long-term liver damage and continues to cost the lives of thousands of children in Burkina Faso every year. But it is preventable.

Lavy is from a family of four brothers, making the usual cost of vaccinations and blood screening tests too high. Despite Lavy’s mother, Agnes, earning a living from her sewing business and his father working part-time jobs, the family is struggling to recover from the recent economy. Agnes is thankful for the support she’s received from the local church.

“I am a proud mother today because the twins received their vaccine at the project to be safe from hepatitis B that costs the lives of many children. The support of the project is amazing, and I am more than thankful for all the support.” says Agnes.