How does child sponsorship work?

Our church partners reach the children in the greatest need.
Staff who know their communities inside out identify the children most in need of your sponsorship support. Children are given help regardless of their backgrounds or beliefs.

We start searching for a sponsor, like you.
Once registered in the Compassion Programme, we look for one sponsor to support each child.

One Compassion sponsor starts to empower one child.
When you start sponsoring, you sponsor a child directly! Your donations will immediately begin to support the child you sponsor.

Children meet at their local Compassion project

We have thousands of local church partners tailoring our holistic child development model to the contextualised needs of the children they serve — the children in their communities.

When you sponsor a child with us, the beneficiary of your support is the specific child you sponsor. The family may receive additional or indirect benefits, but we focus on one child.

The child you sponsor will attend a Compassion Project at their local church. There, they’ll;

• Receive a curriculum based on their individual needs and development stage
• Access to a church-driven local project, and the love and support of staff and volunteers
• Nutritional support
• Health check-ups
• Educational opportunities
• Personal attention and guidance from loving staff members
• An age-appropriate Bible and Biblical teaching and opportunities to hear about the love of Jesus
• Vocational training opportunities

Sponsors exchange letters with the child they sponsor.

Letters will be an encouragement to you both. Please be patient as letter delivery can be disrupted by local circumstances such as restrictions on meeting, floods or unrest, but we do all we can to deliver them swiftly and safely.

The cycle of poverty is broken!

Compassion-sponsored children are empowered to live free from poverty and bring change to their families and communities.

You can read about what Compassion graduates think of the programme here.

If you have further questions, please get in touch with our friendly team at 01932 836490 or by email at info@compassionuk.org.