Compassion Good Neighbour

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Sign up to be a Compassion Good Neighbour and support children waiting for a sponsor

Compassion’s child development program is a proven way to equip children to rise above poverty. But connecting children with a loving sponsor takes time—four months on average.

Your monthly donation will be pooled with others to secure more children’s participation in the program at their local church. This means they can start receiving holistic support as soon as they are registered.

$18 per month will be pooled with other donations to give a child a chance to participate in the program while they wait for a sponsor.
$36 per month will help provide a child with holistic support, including nutritional food, medical check-ups and school supplies.
$96 per month will enable our local church partners to welcome two more children into the Compassion program before they receive a sponsor.

By becoming a Compassion Good Neighbour, you will:

Enjoy the flexibility to donate an amount that suits and easily change your donation amount or cancel when you need

Ensure a child can have immediate access to critical care like a good education, nutritious food and medical check-ups

Know you are following the call of Jesus to love your neighbour by looking after children in the global neighbourhood

Provide our local church partners with funds they urgently need to welcome more children into their care.

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How your support impacts children like Jean

In Rwanda, 9-year-old Jean dreams of becoming a teacher. When the COVID-19 pandemic hit, it made it harder for children like Jean to go to school. But it was also a tough time for his sponsor. When his sponsor had to stop their support, staff at Jean’s Compassion centre continued to care for his needs as always.

Jean still attended his Compassion centre each week and was provided with the school supplies he needed while waiting for a new sponsor. “I learn a lot during the program and my tutors answer many of the questions I ask,” says Jean.

“I’m grateful to the centre that even without a sponsor my child benefits from food relief, nutritional support and get scholastic materials like other sponsored children,” says Claudette, his mother.

Your support means children like Jean do not have to put their dreams on hold—they can receive the same love and support that sponsored children do.

Become a Compassion Good Neighbour and ensure no child gets left behind.

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For every $1 donated

80% goes to program, 20% to administration

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Program development and delivery

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Administration and fundraising costs

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FAQs

If I give to Critical Needs, where will my money go?
You can choose to donate to one of nine Critical Needs areas: - Water and Sanitation - Health - Infrastructure - Mums and Babies - Disaster Relief - Education and Training - Income Generation - Highly Vulnerable Children - Where Most Needed

Your donation goes towards addressing that area of need for children in our program globally. For example, should you give to Water and Sanitation, your donation could go towards providing water filters, water tanks or toilets in any of the over 25 countries where Compassion works. Funds are pooled so that children's most urgent needs are met first, as determined by local church partners who know each child and family in Compassion's program. You can also choose to support an entire Critical Needs project. Please contact us if you are interested in discussing this option further.

You can:
- Give to Critical Needs
- Sponsor a child
How does Critical Needs work with Child Sponsorship?
Critical Needs and the Child Sponsorship Program work side-by-side to equip Compassion's local church partners with the resources to provide holistic support and long-term, customised solutions for children, their families and communities. While the Child Sponsorship Program connects one child with one sponsor, Critical Needs giving is not directed to one child, but provides essential support to thousands of Compassion registered children when they need it most. Every child will benefit from Critical Needs during their time in Compassion’s program, as sponsorship funds alone are not sufficient to cover the varied and often urgent needs of the children we support.

You can choose to support children globally through Critical Needs or fund an entire project in a specific community. These projects are both reactive and proactive and could include water filters to provide safe water to a community, reconstruction of homes after natural disasters, or income generating activities for adolescents and children's caregivers. The right assistance is identified and provided by the local church in partnership with Compassion.

You can:
- Give to Critical Needs
- Sponsor a child
What is Mums and Babies?
Compassion Mums and Babies gives young children critical support during the vulnerable prenatal months and first year of life. It cares for mums and their little ones in their own homes, the centre of their lives.

Combining Compassion’s expertise and the local church’s loving support, Mums and Babies aims to prevent premature death, secure good health and enable positive development for babies and their mothers in over 25 developing countries.

Your support provides:

Home-based care for mothers and babies, with perinatal specialists visiting families monthly to offer healthcare, education and emotional support.

Advocacy for mums to ensure they are treated fairly by local services and can access the essential support they need to thrive, including medical care and birth attendants.

Community support networks that bring mothers together to combat isolation, learn new ways of earning an income and provide each other with long-term support.

Compassion centres, where mothers can always turn for support, learning opportunities and expert advice on how to monitor their child’s healthy development.

When a child turns one year old, the focus shifts from survival to early childhood development, and the child is eligible to join Compassion's Child Sponsorship Program while continuing to receive personalised home-based care until age three.

You can:
- Give to Mums and Babies
- Learn more about Compassion's Child Sponsorship Program
Where does Compassion Mums and Babies operate?
Compassion Mums and Babies works in over 25 developing countries to prevent premature death, secure good health and enable positive development in the youngest, most vulnerable children.

Mums and Babies always operates through a survival project at the Compassion centre in local communities. It is the first phase of our holistic child development model. From age one, children will transition from Mums and Babies into the Child Sponsorship Program.

You can
- Give to Mums and Babies
- Learn more about the Child Sponsorship Program
What are the current ways of supporting Mums and Babies?
You can support Mums and Babies in a number of ways, either with a once-only donation or ongoing support.

Here are some of the ways you can choose to give:
- A once-off donation of your choice to Mums and Babies will support young families worldwide and provide emergency care for vulnerable children.
- $12 per month, contributed to Compassion's Critical Needs alongside child sponsorship, supports Mums and Babies globally and provides emergency care for vulnerable children.
- A $20 once-off donation for a Care for a New Mum Gift of Compassion™, which will be used where support is most needed.
- A $40 once-off donation for a baby essentials kit through GIFTSOFCOMPASSION™ gives a mum all the necessary supplies to care for her newborn, such as blankets and soaps.
- A $260 once-off donation for a Start of Life Bundle. This GIFTSOFCOMPASSION™ provides an expectant mum living in poverty with crucial ante and postnatal care.
- $15,000 once-off donation through Gifts of Compassion™ will nurture a Mums and Babies survival project in a specific community and provide life-saving support to vulnerable mothers and their babies.