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Income Generation

Pigs are a practical gift that don’t require significant upkeep or a large plot of land. They reproduce rapidly, providing families with a potential source of income through sales. Additionally, pigs produce organic manure that enriches garden soil, boosting agricultural productivity. With your gift, you help provide a pig to every one of the 996 families at six Compassion centres in Rwanda. This gift also includes training on sustainable pig rearing from contracted pig farming trainers, creating new opportunities to generate income for not only families but also their communities.

In Peru, 7 out of 10 people live in or are vulnerable to poverty. As the fifth-greatest consumer of bread in the world, selling bread in Peru is a promising avenue for income and economic empowerment. With this gift, you help 80 caregivers enroll in a 10-month bakery workshop, where they will learn both baking and entrepreneurial skills to help them start their own baking businesses to support their families.

Entrepreneurship is a powerful force for breaking the cycle of poverty, providing children and families with the skills and resources needed to secure a stable income and create opportunities for others. This gift provides essential skills training, financial education and the materials necessary to launch new businesses.

When you give Entrepreneurial Skills Training, your gift goes to the Gifts of Compassion Income Generation Fund.

Technical skills can transform the lives of families with limited resources, meeting immediate household needs and opening doors to sustainable income opportunities. This gift empowers caregivers and youth with comprehensive technical and business training in fields such as technology, fashion, food service, the trades and more, equipping them with the tools to generate resources and build a brighter future.

When you give Technical Skills Training, your gift goes to the Gifts of Compassion Income Generation Fund.

Backyard farms are a sustainable way to fight hunger and generate income. But many families in poverty lack the resources to start one for themselves. Your gift empowers a family in poverty by providing resources such as seeds, fertilizer, livestock, tools and education to help them create and sustain their own backyard farm.

When you give Backyard Farming, your gift goes to the Gifts of Compassion Income Generation Fund.

When you give to the Income Generation Fund, you provide families living in poverty with resources to earn an income—things like livestock, seeds, skills training and more. This gift keeps giving, as it helps families overcome the desperation that lack of skills, resources and opportunities creates and gives them the stability they need to build a future.
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Education and Training

In today’s world, access to technology and digital literacy skills are essential for educational success and future job opportunities. Your gift helps provide children and youth with the tools they need to thrive in a digital age—like computer labs, devices and training—equipping them with the confidence and knowledge to fulfill their God-given potential.

When you give to Digital Tools for a Brighter Future, your gift goes to the Gifts of Compassion Education and Training Fund.

By investing in education, we empower students to break the cycle of poverty. Educated children become changemakers and build a brighter future for themselves, their families and their communities. This gift helps 108 youths in Guatemala with tuition fees and educational resources needed to complete their high school education. With your gift, a student knows someone believes in them and their future.

The sports industry in Kenya has expanded to employ 12.9% of youth entering the workforce. Soccer is one of the most popular sports in the country and can provide work opportunities in schools, sports clubs and other youth-based organizations. This puts soccer coaches in demand and provides proximity to impacting the lives of youth in the country. With your gift, you provide 100 students from across Kenya with education and certification in coaching soccer. This gift also provides these same students with training to disciple and teach life-skills to other children and youth.

Education is a catalyst that breaks the cycle of poverty for a child. Educated children are the changemakers, forging brighter futures not just for themselves, but for their families and communities. This gift supports students from primary to post-secondary school, ensuring they have the financial means to pursue their education and achieve their dreams.

When you give School Fees, your gift goes to the Gifts of Compassion Education and Training Fund.

Vocational training is a powerful catalyst for change, offering youth the opportunity to gain practical skills that lead to stable employment and economic independence. This gift provides essential training in high-demand trades and professions, ensuring participants have the knowledge and expertise needed to secure good jobs and support their families.

When you give Vocational Training, your gift goes to the Gifts of Compassion Education and Training Fund.

When you give to the Education and Training Fund, you provide children and youth in poverty with access to learning resources and educational opportunities to equip them for futures free from poverty. This includes computers, tuition for vocational training, college or university and other essential learning materials.
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Moms & Babies

Empowering moms is crucial in breaking the cycle of poverty. With this gift, you provide moms with the training and tools they need to develop new skills and enhance old ones—all so they can confidently secure jobs to help them provide for their families. When equipped and empowered, moms can make better decisions and choices for themselves and their families.

When you give the gift of Job Skills Training for Moms, your gift goes to the Gifts of Compassion Moms and Babies Fund.

Many new moms and caregivers living in poverty lack the essential items needed to care for a newborn baby. With this gift, you give caregivers the basic supplies they need—items like blankets, soap, lotion and diapers—to ensure their baby is healthy and thriving. This hand-delivered gift from Compassion centre staff helps new caregivers know they are supported, loved and not alone.

When you give a Newborn Care Package, your gift goes to the Gifts of Compassion Moms and Babies Fund.

The first year of a child’s life is critical. Without proper medical care and growth monitoring, irreversible damage can be done. With this gift, you help ensure that new parents living in poverty have access to essential medical services for their baby in those first critical 12 months.

When you give the gift of Baby Medical Care, your gift goes to the Gifts of Compassion Moms and Babies Fund.

Proper nutrition is critical for moms and babies living in extreme poverty. With this gift, you provide a mother and her baby with six months’ worth of supplemental food and nutrition, which is vital to ensure that moms and babies not only survive but thrive.

When you give the gift of Food for Mom and Baby, your gift goes to the Gifts of Compassion Moms and Babies Fund.

The risks for expectant mothers in poverty are significant. And tragically, maternal mortality rates are unacceptably high in low-resource settings. But with this gift, you provide an expectant mother with the resources she needs to ensure a healthy pregnancy and delivery—such as medical care, regular check-ups, proper nutrition and education.

When you give the gift of Prenatal Healthcare, your gift goes to the Gifts of Compassion Moms and Babies Fund.

Did you know that most of the millions of children who die every year do so in their first year of life from preventable causes? When you give to the Moms and Babies Fund, you can change this tragic reality. Your gift provides tangible care and life-saving support for moms and babies living in poverty. This includes prenatal healthcare, checkups, critical medical care, desperately needed food and newborn essentials.
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Health & Wellness

Kelly has endured years of severe enamel issues and dental pain, making it difficult for her to eat and properly nourish her body. To restore her oral health, Kelly requires a comprehensive care plan, including deep cleaning, restorations and endodontic treatments with dental pins and crowns. Your gift will provide Kelly with the treatments she needs, along with a six-month recovery process, empowering her to nourish her body, protect her health and smile with renewed confidence.

For girls living in poverty, navigating menstrual health with safety and dignity comes with challenges that affect their overall well-being, education, social life and self-esteem. This gift provides essential education and resources, empowering girls to manage their menstrual health effectively. By equipping them with the knowledge and tools they need, we enable them to thrive and reach their full potential.

Mental health is crucial for the overall well-being and future success of children and youth, especially those living in poverty. This gift provides counselling, therapy and mental health education to children and youth facing the complexities of poverty. These initiatives reduce stigma and ensure access to necessary professional care, empowering children and youth to overcome challenges and thrive.

When you give Mental Health Initiatives, your gift goes to the Gifts of Compassion Health and Wellness Fund.

Did you know that diseases carried by mosquitos, such as malaria, dengue and Zika, cause millions of deaths every year? These diseases are preventable. Your gift helps to protect vulnerable children from mosquito-borne diseases through mosquito net distribution and preventative education.

When you give Mosquito-Borne Disease Prevention, your gift goes to the Gifts of Compassion Health and Wellness Fund.

A diet lacking protein, fruits and vegetables is all too common for a child living in poverty. This is exacerbated in communities facing acute food insecurity. Your gift helps fight malnutrition in a child’s life by providing supplemental, protein-rich food, vitamins and medical care to help them grow healthy and strong.

When you give Food for Malnourished Children, your gift goes to the Gifts of Compassion Health and Wellness Fund.

When you give to the Health and Wellness Fund, you provide children and their families with the resources to meet their most critical health needs and prevent disease and health complications in the future. This fund covers things such as mosquito nets, dental kits, food for malnourished children, access to medical care and preventative health education for children, youth and families.
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Water, Sanitation and Hygiene

Access to safe water is essential, but unfortunately, more than half of the population in Burkina Faso does not have this necessity. There is an urgent need for sustainable clean water in four Compassion centres in communities struggling with high rates of waterborne illnesses. With your gift, you provide four solar-powered boreholes with handwashing stations, giving safe water access to 608 Compassion children and 1,900 caregivers, siblings and community members.

Water is essential to life. This means that access to clean water is a right that every child should have. With your gift, you ensure children have easy, consistent and safe access to clean water through boreholes, wells, rainwater harvesting systems or water filters. With solutions that fit with each child’s context for maximum impact, this gift helps children not just survive but thrive.

When you give Access to Clean Water, your gift goes to the Gifts of Compassion Water, Sanitation and Hygiene Fund.

Did you know that more than half of the global population doesn’t have access to safe sanitation facilities? Access to a clean washroom is critical in preventing the spread of deadly infectious diseases like cholera. Your gift helps fund the construction of safe washrooms, giving hundreds of children dignity and protection from disease.

When you give Washrooms, your gift goes to the Gifts of Compassion Water, Sanitation and Hygiene Fund.

Did you know that hand washing could prevent more than a million unnecessary deaths for children under the age of five each year? It is crucial for children to regularly wash their hands in order to stay healthy. This gift will bring life-saving access to hand washing facilities in the communities of vulnerable children and their families.

When you give Hand Washing Stations, your gift will go to the Water, Sanitation and Hygiene Fund.

Water, sanitation and hygiene are some of our most basic needs, and a lack of access to them can be deadly. With this gift, you ensure that children around the world have clean water to drink, the ability to practice good hygiene and protection from deadly diseases through things such as washrooms, hand washing stations and hygiene education.

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Safety & Stability

Local Compassion centres are cornerstones for whole-life transformation—and infrastructure improvements equip our church partners to continue building hope in their communities. Your gift helps to provide upgraded kitchen facilities, collaborative classroom spaces and safe washrooms, surrounding children and youth with supportive environments where their holistic needs are met and where they can grow into their God-given potential.

When you give to Build Safe Spaces for Children, your gift goes to the Gifts of Compassion Safety and Stability Fund.

For families experiencing poverty, the struggle to put food on the table is a daily reality. Families often face acute hunger, some surviving on one small meal a day. Your gift of a food basket or a meal can help relieve food insecurity for a family and provide children with the nutrition they need to lead healthy, flourishing lives. It’s a practical and hope-filled way to care for families facing hunger.

When you give Nutritious Food for Families, your gift goes to the Gifts of Compassion Safety and Stability Fund.

Three Compassion centres in Togo currently operate without access to electricity, creating challenges for staff and volunteers who run essential programs for children. Solar power will greatly enhance these centres’ ability to serve their communities by supporting education, administration, food storage and preparation and more. With your gift, you will provide solar power to these centres, helping them release children from poverty in Jesus’ name.

Did you know that Guatemala has the fourth-highest rate of chronic malnutrition in the world? Recently, Compassion Guatemala has seen a shocking number of children entering their programs with chronic malnutrition. This gift includes an 18-month training that teaches 400 families how to grow and prepare healthy food sustainably. It also provides access to local seed banks, agricultural plots and grain storage, as well as instructions for building their own fruit gardens so families have comprehensive resources to raise healthy and thriving children.

Poverty increases a child’s risk of abuse, trafficking, child marriage, child labour and other forms of exploitation. During times of crisis, these risks only increase. This gift enables Compassion centres to run child protection workshops for caregivers and community members, equipping them to ensure that children are known, loved and protected at home, at school and in the community.

When you give a Child Protection Workshop, your gift goes to the Gifts of Compassion Safety and Stability Fund.

When you give to the Safety and Stability Fund, you provide vital essentials such as housing support, emergency food packs and infrastructure improvements to families and communities in need, often in the face of crises or environmental disasters. This fund also supports caregivers and communities in accessing training such as child protection workshops, ensuring safer communities where children are known, loved and protected.

Where most needed

Give to our Where Most Needed Fund to enable our local church partners to respond to the most pressing needs of children and families living in poverty. Our church partners are uniquely positioned to know the needs of their communities and how to respond. Your gift provides the resources they need to do so.

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Frequently Asked Questions

How does Gifts of Compassion work?

Each gift in our guide meets a real need of children and families living in poverty, identified by our local church partners around the world. These gifts are designed to allow children and families living in poverty to have the resources, security, health, skills and opportunities they need to overcome poverty and thrive now and into the future.

When you give a gift in honour of a loved one, you can download or send an e-card to show your loved ones how their gift is transforming lives around the world!

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What does it mean when my gift goes towards a “fund”?

When you give a gift that goes towards a fund, you are helping to meet some of the most common needs of the children and families we serve as identified by our local church partners. 

Because these needs are so common, your gift could go to any one of our 8,000 local church partners around the world at any given time, depending on the needs. This ensures that your gift is given to the right family at the right time. 

The word “fund” might make it sound like your gifts are sitting in a bucket somewhere, but rest assured it’s quite the opposite: fund gifts meet some of the most urgent needs identified by our local church partners.

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Why do some gifts have a progress bar and others do not?

Gifts that have a progress bar raise funds for a specific need in a specific community as identified by one or a small group of our local church partners. These gifts have a goal that shows exactly how much it will cost to fund the entire project or program.

Once a specific gift is fully funded and the need is met in full, we won’t be raising funds for it anymore. Instead, we’ll add new gifts as our local church partners express the needs of their communities or we’ll invite you to give towards other related gifts. That means not every gift you see in our gift guide will be available forever. So, if you see something you want to give towards, make sure to do it sooner than later!

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Where can I learn about Compassion’s financial integrity?

Financial integrity matters to us. We take your trust seriously and are committed to faithfully stewarding the funds you give.

No less than 80 per cent of funds raised will be used for program activities. No more than 20 per cent will be used for fundraising and administration.

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Who is Compassion?

As one of the world's leading child development organizations, Compassion’s mission is to release children from poverty in Jesus’ name. Over the last 70 years, Compassion revolutionized the fight against global poverty by partnering with local churches to lift children out of spiritual, economic, social and physical poverty.

Today, Compassion partners with over 8,000 churches in 29 countries to deliver our proven child development program to more than 2 million infants, children and youth. Around the world, children, families and entire communities are being empowered to overcome poverty and thrive both now and into the future. 

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