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About Child Sponsorship with Compassion
More than 86,000 people sponsor a child through Compassion UK.
Every child born into poverty faces a unique combination of challenges. That’s why our programme doesn’t just care for one area of a child’s life, giving them food or education in isolation. We believe caring for a child’s mind, body, heart and spirit is the most effective way to release them from poverty, for good!
Holistic child development means we begin supporting a child in poverty, in some cases, when the child is still in the womb, and it means we go all the way through young adulthood. Compassion-sponsored children stay in school longer and are more likely to grow up to be employed and become leaders in their churches and communities.
As a child, poverty began to speak to me, I felt I was nothing, that I didn't matter ... nobody cared to know my name"I got the news that a young lady, Heather, she was just 15 years old, a teenager, she had decided to sponsor me. I cannot find the words to describe the joy that filled our home. 'Richmond you've got a sponsor, you can now go to school.'
Richmond Wandera
