Compassion International Fact Sheet

Who:  Compassion International is the world's largest Christian child development organization that works through local churches to permanently release children from poverty.  By addressing the full scope of issues that impact a child's well-being, entire communities are being transformed. 

Purpose:  Recognizing that poverty is more than a lack of money, Compassion provides a one-of-kind, holistic combination of physical, economic, educational and spiritual development programs to help children to thrive, not just survive.

Compassion by the Numbers:

• More than 1 million children currently benefit from one-to-one sponsorship
• More than 1,600,000 children have been served since 1952
• Some 5,000 local church congregations from 60 denominations partner with Compassion to provide direct service to children and their families
• Children in 26 of the world's poorest countries on four continents are served by Compassion
• Some 700 students given the opportunity to attend college, graduate and work in their home countries transforming their communities as doctors, lawyers, teachers, pastors and more through Compassion's Leadership Development Program
  

 

Programs:  Pre-natal to higher education: customized care for children

• Age 0-3:  Child Survival [16,000 participants] not only saves lives, but also helps ensure healthy pregnancies, and gives vulnerable children a better, healthier start in life.  Mothers receive:
  
  
• Healthcare, hygiene and nutrition instruction
• Job-skills training
• Supplemental milk, food and medicine
  

 

• Age 3-18:  Child Sponsorship [1 million sponsored children / 173,000 awaiting sponsors] provides children with physical, economic, educational and spiritual development.  Sponsored children receive:
  
  
• Education and job-skills training
• Healthcare, nourishment and clean water
• Spiritual guidance
  

 

• Age 18-21:  Leadership Development [1,800 student participants] affords outstanding Compassion-sponsored, high school graduates the opportunity to pursue post-secondary education
  
  
• Some 1,000 Leadership Development Program graduates work in their home countries as doctors, lawyers, teachers, pastors and more
  

 

• Compassion tackles unforeseen barriers to a child's healthy development:
  
  
• After disaster strikes, Compassion provides relief to sponsored children and their families including food, clothing and other basic supplies to help rebuild their lives
• Compassion's AIDS Initiative provides prevention education, rehabilitative care and life-saving treatment in communities crippled by HIV/AIDS
• 70 percent of the 360,000 Compassion-sponsored children in Africa have been tested for HIV/AIDS
• More than 3,600 HIV-positive children are currently receiving care through Compassion
• Compassion's Malaria Intervention-the Bite Back Program-provides mosquito nets, malaria prevention education and access to medical treatment for children in malaria-affected areas

 

President & CEO:  Wess Stafford

 

Founded:  1952 by Rev. Everett Swanson, Compassion's original goal was to provide Korean War orphans with food, shelter, education, healthcare and Bible teaching.

Ranked:  Compassion has been awarded ten consecutive, four-star ratings by Charity Navigator, America's largest charity evaluator.

International headquarters:  Colorado Springs, Colo.

 

Revenue:  $506 million (Fiscal year-ended June 30, 2010)

Countries of operation: 

Africa	Central and South America	Central America and  The Caribbean	Asia
Burkina Faso Ethiopia Ghana Kenya Rwanda Tanzania Togo  Uganda	Bolivia Brazil Colombia Ecuador Peru	Dominican Republic El Salvador Guatemala Haiti Honduras Mexico Nicaragua	Bangladesh India Indonesia Philippines Sri Lanka Thailand
Web site:  www.Compassion.com
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