Hope Dividends: Compassion FY24 Impact Booklet

Hope Dividends

How Your Investment in Children is Furthering God’s Kingdom on Earth

Togo, Africa

Hi There, Hope-Giver!

Thank you for joining us to release children from poverty in Jesus’ name. Your generosity is what empowers us to chase Christ’s promise of wholeness for young people in poverty who often go forgotten.

We want you to see for yourself the difference you’ve made for God’s kingdom through your kindness. Because when it’s done in his name, a little kindness can change the world.

“His master replied, ‘Well done, good and faithful servant! You have been faithful with a few things; I will put you in charge of many things. Come and share your master’s happiness!’”

— MATTHEW 25:21, NIV

In this photo: A group of children stand at the entrance of their local Compassion center.

Togo, Africa

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Image captured by Compassion photojournalist Ben Adams

Your Giving Is Changing the World!

Supporters like you have touched hundreds of thousands of lives across four continents. Families in poverty have held your kindness in their hands in the form of emergency food kits and prenatal vitamins. You’ve equipped churches to show God’s love through life-changing child development programs. And above all, children and their families are glorifying God’s name because of your Spirit-led giving.

LET’S LOOK AT THE IMPACT YOU’VE MADE!

Global Food Crisis

You helped provide vital nutrition and restore food security for 2,472,889 individuals

Baby & Mom Survival

You helped provide lifesaving care to 56,967 moms and babies by providing support during the critical first year.

Ministry Expansion

You helped us welcome 74,448 new children into the Compassion program, spreading the hope of God.

THE COUNTRIES WE SERVE

CENTRAL AMERICA AND THE CARIBBEAN SOUTH AMERICA ASIA

Dominican Republic

El Salvador

Guatemala

Haiti

Honduras

Mexico

Nicaragua

Bolivia

Brazil

Colombia

Ecuador

Peru

AFRICA

Burkina Faso

Ethiopia

Ghana

Kenya

Malawi

Rwanda

Tanzania

Togo

Uganda

Zambia

Bangladesh

Cambodia

Indonesia

Myanmar

Philippines

Sri Lanka

Thailand

STORIES OF HOPE

Together, with God’s grace, we’re releasing children from poverty.

You’ve done so much to serve Christ and his children. We’re excited to show you the tangible change you’ve set in motion.

It would take thousands of pages to celebrate those you’ve blessed. So in the following pages, we’ve highlighted a few stories that capture the impact of your generosity.

GLOBAL FOOD CRISIS

Helping families have enough nutritious food to sustain them.

Meet a young man who enjoyed the gift of a lush garden. (Page 8)

Images captured by Compassion photojournalists Doreen Umutesi, Ben Adams & Vera Aurima

BABY & MOM SURVIVAL MINISTRY EXPANSION

Helping babies and moms through the critical first year of life.

Discover God’s grace for a disabled mom and her baby.

(Page 10)

Empowering churches to welcome more children in desperate need.

See the gospel impact of Compassion in remote Indonesia. (Page 12)

GLOBAL FOOD CRISIS

YOUR IMPACT IN ACTION

Parched Grounds Into Gardens

Generous givers like you bring relief to people facing grave food crises in countries like Burkina Faso.

Like many countries, hunger is on the rise in Burkina Faso. The causes are complex and vary from community to community. Several factors play a role, including conflict, rising prices and extreme weather events.

But for Fabrice, all his hunger came back to one thing: water scarcity. There was only one water pump for every man, woman, child and animal in his whole village. Without water, crops didn’t grow during the long dry season. And in a community where 90.4% of the population endures poverty, soaring food prices took buying food off the table.

But supporters like you have equipped churches to meet these urgent needs. As the need has grown, the churches we work with have used your gifts to meet the challenge head-on.

For Fabrice, that meant his local Compassion center provided a solar-powered borehole. The borehole draws clean water from deep in the earth. To alleviate the

In this photo: Fabrice (left) and a community member harvest lettuce at the center, which was not possible before the installation of the borehole by Compassion.

Story and images captured by Compassion photojournalist Jehojakim Sangare

Your Impact at a Glance

2,228,199 Individuals

received emergency food relief

244,700 Individuals

benefited from food resiliency initiatives

2,047 Local Churches

provided emergency relief and sustainable solutions to communities facing crisis

Feeding families affected by the global food crisis.

“Like Adam in the garden of Eden, I love to water the onions at the center. My tutors taught me how to plant seeds in recycled receptacles, too.”

— Fabrice, Compassion student

community’s food crisis, the Compassion center uses it to run a garden. Community members are learning how to grow food to feed their families. They have a food source that’s in their control, safe from inflation, drought and even instability.

Because of supporters like you, what once was parched ground is now green and life-giving to a whole community.

GLOBAL FOOD CRISIS

In this photo: Fabrice poses with his watering can at the Compassion center.

YOUR IMPACT IN ACTION

Remembering His Children

God is bringing love to babies and moms forgotten by their communities.

Denise was born with just four fingers: her pinkie and thumb on each hand. Her father immediately rejected her and abandoned the family. As she grew up, everyone mocked her disability. The shame was so great that she could barely talk to others. She thought of herself as less than human.

Not even her marriage to Claude, a shoemaker, could heal her heart. And when they had a baby, the shame of her situation felt even worse as they struggled to provide for their little one.

Poverty complicates all pregnancies and childhoods. But women and babies with disabilities are at special risk. And sometimes social stigma can be as deadly as disease. Women and babies with disabilities are often cast to the edge of society with no incomes or access to medical care and forgotten.

But God remembered Denise. Desperate, she reached out to her local church for support. And to her surprise, they welcomed her with open arms. Compassion Togo

In this photo: Denise holds her daughter, Abiguël, at their home in Togo, Africa.

Story and images captured by Compassion photojournalist Gabriella Akpene Samaty

Your Impact at a Glance

50,937 Babies

protected from devastating malnutrition within their first year of life

6,030 Pregnant Mothers

received lifesaving prenatal care and support

325 New Survival Centers

opened in communities of tremendous need

Feeding families affected by the global food crisis.

“I am grateful that the Compassion Center has enrolled me. They are family to me, and I don’t feel lonely anymore. Compassion and the center are the reason for my joy.”

— Denise

has been expanding the Survival program for babies and moms to better reach those with disabilities. With the help of Christian Blind Mission, a Christian ministry serving the disabled worldwide, they now serve 121 disabled moms and babies.

What surprised Denise most was that they loved her. The Survival center staff saw something that no one else did — that she was a precious child of God just as much as her baby. She went from having no friends to joining a network of moms who laugh with her and share her burdens.

God has turned her sorrow into joy. She and her baby are thriving as she becomes the mother God created her to be. And it’s because you and others like you choose to be the hands and feet of Christ to babies and moms in poverty.

In this photo: Denise (in pink) plays games at the Compassion center with her friends.

YOUR IMPACT IN ACTION

Raising Children of Light

Good news is reaching distant and spiritually dark places.

“The church has to reach beyond the altar.” That’s Frans’ mission. He’s the pastor of a church in Taebone, a rural Indonesian village. Resources are scarce. So is hope.

“Changing the mindset and way of living is the hardest task if you want to transform this community,” says Frans.

Like Frans, we’re convinced that the local church is the greatest hope for children in poverty. It’s the body of Christ in out-of-the-way places like Taebone. And where Christ is present, so is hope.

As we’ve opened centers in those rural regions where poverty runs rampant, we’ve seen what the light of the gospel can do. “The blind receive sight, the lame walk, those who have leprosy are cleansed, the deaf hear, the dead are raised, and the good news is proclaimed to the poor” (Matthew 11:5,

Frans knew for years that Compassion could make a tremendous difference in Taebone. So he saw it as a miracle when Compassion opened a center in his church. After just a few short months, 100 students are registered in the program, and Frans is working with Immanuel,

NIV).

In this photo: A center staff member takes a picture of newly registered child at the Compassion center in Taebone Village.

Story and images captured by Compassion photojournalist Hutama Limarta

Your Impact at a Glance

367 New Centers

opened in partnership with local churches

74,448 New Children

welcomed to the Compassion program

253,043

Unsponsored Children

currently receiving full support while they wait for a sponsor

“The light has arrived, and it will only shine brighter.”

Frans, pastor

the Compassion partnership facilitator, to identify the community’s most urgent needs.

In addition to meeting specific community needs, Compassion always provides a child development program involving medical care, education, child safety protocols, disaster relief and more.

But above all, every child in the program hears the good news of what Christ did for them on the cross.

Ending poverty always begins with hope. And because of supporters like you, the light of Christ’s hope is shining in places like Taebone. You’re laying the groundwork for years of gospel work in the places that need it most.

In this photo: Pastor Frans poses in front of his church.

In this photo: Filia (8) walks along the salt ponds that her community in Indonesia uses for income generation.

Image captured by Compassion photojournalist Hutama Limarta

“May the God of hope fill you with all joy and peace as you trust in him, so that you may overflow with hope by the power of the Holy Spirit.”

— ROMANS 15:13, NIV

Through generous supporters like you, this promise of God is being realized for children in poverty. The good news of Jesus changes everything. It sanctifies hearts. It drives out darkness. It turns death into life. And it makes the deserts of poverty into gardens of blessing.

Thank you for partnering with us in this work for his kingdom.

In this photo: A group of children gather around a photographer at their Compassion center in Togo, Africa.

Image captured by Compassion photojournalist Ben Adams