Health and Nutrition

Because Compassion’s Child Sponsorship Program involves weekly classes and regular health checkups through the development center, Compassion workers are in a position to quickly identify a child’s nutritional deficiencies or medical issues and determine and administer the best response to correct the situation. Compassion’s Medical Reimbursable Fund ensures that resources are immediately available to deliver…

Diarrhea and pneumonia cause more than 2 million deaths each year, many of which could be avoided through prevention or prompt care. There were 198 million cases of malaria in 2013, leading to 584,000 unnecessary deaths. Undernutrition is the underlying cause of death in an estimated 45 percent of deaths among children under 5 years…

Life improves when medical attention and healthy nutrition are readily available: When children have access to good nutrition and health monitoring/treatment, their health improves, feelings of security and wellbeing are raised, family expenses are lowered, and children experience both the health and energy to learn, grow and achieve their dreams. When this happens … life…

Compassion is a child sponsorship organization. Our focus is long-term, one-to-one engagement with children to develop them to a point where they can release themselves from poverty. ESSENTIAL to this process is health. Without good health and nutrition, a child cannot regularly attend and engage in developmental activities and, thus, grow to a point of…