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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.
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.
Share the gift of hope where it is most needed.
Your gift provides instruments and helps build a music studio at a Compassion centre in Indonesia—creating a space where children and youth can learn music through ongoing lessons and structured classes. As they develop skills and confidence, they’ll be equipped to serve their churches and use their gifts to glorify God.
Give the gift of music—help children grow their talents and serve God.
Your gift helps 23 students in Indonesia pursue university education—something less than half of high school graduates can afford. By opening the door to higher learning, you’re giving students the chance to build meaningful careers, earn stable incomes and step into a future of hope beyond poverty.
Invest in education today—empower students for a lifetime.
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.
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.
Equipping youth with practical skills that open the door to stable employment and economic independence is a powerful catalyst for lasting change. This gift provides essential training in high-demand trades and professions, ensuring participants gain the expertise to build meaningful careers, sustain their future and support their families.
Help 15 families in Indonesia increase their income and stability through red ginger production. Each family receives training in cultivating red ginger and turning it into powder—a high-demand, profitable product that can transform their daily lives and support their families.
A solution built for their community—grow skills and income today.
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.
Providing youth and families with the skills and resources needed to secure a stable income and create opportunities is a powerful force for breaking the cycle of poverty. This gift provides essential skills training, financial education and the materials necessary to launch new businesses.
Learning marketable 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 to build a brighter future.
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 by providing resources such as seeds, fertilizer, livestock, tools and education to help them create and sustain their own backyard farm.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Your gift provides solar-powered boreholes for 373 children at two Compassion centres in Thailand—giving them regular access to clean, life-saving water.
Give the gift of safe water today—and change lives in these communities.
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.
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.
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.
Your gift provides transformative open-heart surgery for 11-year-old Elimelec in Nicaragua. While other children his age can run and play, his heart condition limits his ability to move and socialize. With your support, Elimelec can gain the strong heart he needs to be active, make friends and explore his God-given potential.
Give Elimelec a healthy heart—restore his childhood.
Your gift provides eye screenings for 15,000 youth in Togo, with glasses for those who need them—protecting sight and improving learning. It also equips caregivers and staff to identify eye issues early, extending the impact for years to come.
Give the gift of clear vision today—and unlock a child’s 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.
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.
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.
Your gift builds a safe, dignified home for siblings Noemí (12) and Ángel (8) in Nicaragua, whose current shelter exposes them to illness and danger. In their new home, they can eat, sleep and play safely, free from daily risks.
Give the gift of a safe home today and change this family’s future.
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.
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.
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 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.
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.
Buying a gift isn’t the only way to make an impact. You can start a personalized fundraiser for any of the six categories of needs in the Gifts of Compassion gift guide. It’s never been easier to multiply your impact.
