Hey Mindy, as a long time sponsor i may be able to help you from a sponsor stand point. I also want to sincerely apologize as it sounds like this sponsorship and our mailings have increased the burden. Again, I am so sorry for the disappointment that reading the 990 Form caused. As the name implies, all Complimentary Interventions are automatically provided to children and families as part of the program. Thank you for verifying that there is no pronoun for he or she in the Philippines. I suppose the ICP where she attends the Program must have given her livelihood skills for survival if she really is in grade 5. The children have always written more letters to us than we to them, which make us grateful. Therefore, we protect, develop, and deploy all of our resources (people, time, money, knowledge, reputation and materials) with great care and wisdom. In order to develop quality staff at Compassion while at the same time managing our financial resources with great care and wisdom, we seek to offer competitive salaries for the various positions necessary to successfully execute Compassions mission statement. We feel that in order to develop quality staff at Compassion while at the same time managing our financial resources with great care and wisdom, we must seek to offer competitive salaries for the various positions necessary to successfully execute Compassions mission statement. Oh hey! Please email me at [emailprotected] with your sponsor number as I relish the chance to be able to research this situation and set it right. Compassion gets 3 stars overall on financials: 4-stars on Asset Utilization Efficiency Please send us an email at [emailprotected] with your sponsor number and we would be happy to see whats going on. It might simply be a hot meal program, paying for school fees and a free health clinic, and the parents bring their children to the center, which you fund. Cheryl, Im so sorry for the confusion about your sponsorship of sweet Lilibeth in Colombia. The more often you write, the more often you should also receive letters from Farel. Compassion UK has not worked for me. You do have responsibilities in that relationship it isnt just you pay some money, and sit back and get letters to entertain yourself once a month, or whatever. Please know that while some people feel our CEO makes more than he should, our ministry is committed to the children we serve and your donations truly do make a difference. If you can, travel to see what we do firsthand and meet your child. 3-stars on Fund Acquisition Efficiency. That being said, I understand how it may be unsettling when looking at the salaries of our upper management and board of directors. This has always been the case before and after the new letter system was implemented. Im sorry if there was any confusion in the information you received. In my junior year of high school, I went to 722 in Atlanta and Lewi Giggleo gave his testimony and recommendation of Compassion and outside the conference hall I became a sponsor. Your sweet boy certainly loves you! Facilitating Global Growth As Compassion grew over six-plus decades, it quickly realized it was outpacing its processes and global technology. I definitely feel duped. I started sponsoring a child with CCF/Childfund first but after a few years I discovered child sponsorship through Compassion. Always. Read the research that was done by a third-party researcher about the effectiveness of our program. Actually Compassion only has a 3 out of 5 star rating from ministry watch. Contribution Reliance Ratio: 0.831 vs. 0.991 Due to a planned power outage on Friday, 1/14, between 8am-1pm PST, some services may be impacted. If you werent getting responses, did you ask the child why? Oh my gosh, what else is there in life? I found this odd because I every time I send a letter, I send pictures along with it. Was this for Christina or Adele? Anyways, the response the second time said that it normally takes 3 to 6 months to receive the first letter.hmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm. I noticed you have started writing to Farel more often lately, which is great! I fully believe you will be greatly encouraged. This means that your letter was written on September 3 and not March 9, which would make sense as a first letter if you started in July. I will find it very difficult to forgive Compassion UK for that: * My child was hungry and you did not feed him. Thank you all I loved reading all your stories, God bless all of you and especially the childrenJesus loves them all. We do take new pictures the children every 2 years and update their information so that you can see how they are growing. My own (not so little anymore) girl used to give me very generic answers when she was four and five too, and it was hard to feel like I was getting to know her! This time it was from my sponsor child, Teya SUBSCRIBEEE IF YOURE NEW! They are closely monitored by governments, religious organizations, and by us pessimistic sponsors. Briefly and surprisingly though I received information that I got a church from South Korea to sponsor my education. Compassion International Marketing Copywriter II Remote 2d $54K-$67K Per Year (Employer est.) Unlock your own 28-day journey to a more meaningful life. Others decide to stay in our program for extra vocation training. Wed love to help you find a child to sponsor and coordinate a visit as well. You should definitely be receiving letters from your childs pastor though. Thank you so much for your patience as Im sure that you are excited to begin your relationship with your sweet girl. We are still working through all the bugs in this new system (which I am guessing you will understand as a programmer yourself). Please know that the tutors are all different people who are local community members, not experts, so letter writing may still be a foreign concept for them as well. Thank you so much for your heartfelt comment! Not exactly speeding up the process as they predicted. Im so sorry that when you spoke with us, we referred to your child as a girl instead of a boy. or is that also at a 90% rate? Even for a long-term sponsor like me, who is 110% committed to Compassion, what you said really made an impact. If someone has been burned before, they look for faults in everything the letters from the child they sponsor, the pictures we send them, the way we use the funds we receive. Letters are important. Compassion makes sure the money is properly spent by the parents by not just giving the parents pure cash. When I receive letters from her they are so generic that one can tell the translator is just writing something generic that they probably write to most. I played dumb, asked the same question to other Compassion staff, I quizzed the teen children and none had ever seen their sponsor or the sponsor of any other Compassion child. Dates are reversed in other countries Day Month Year is common. In other words, your sponsorship helps provide your child with: -educational opportunities to defeat illiteracy 3 US, sports : a movement (such as a pretended kick, pass, or step) that is meant to trick an opponent The runner made a fake to the left and then cut to the right. I assumed everyone would know such a important date but if it doesnt play such a important role as it does here and in other countries, then I guess, I can understand how something like this can happen. On letter writing days, the staff put suggestions for topics and questions on the board for the kids to write to their sponsors. Hope that helps yours and anyone else who is having trust issues regarding misuse of a pronoun in relation to their childs gender. This practice is part of the Pathway to Happiness Program Self-Compassionate Letter Stop beating yourself up for flaws and mistakes. Your support is helping to provide all of these needs and more for him and his family. After receiving that email I logged into my account and OHHHHH look, a letter from my child is in translation dated two days prior..Ummmmmmm I log in everyday waiting for a letter, that certainly wasnt there two days ago or yesterday. I was involved in 2 childrens lives who grew up and left the Compassion program. The Compassion development centers often help enhance what the child is learning in school and they focuses on the most important areas of growth while promoting life skills. You should already have his current one, but I would be happy to send you his previous photo as well! This means that with your donation (should you choose to give), we will purchase a gift for your child, gifts for children whose sponsors cant give, and children who arent yet sponsored. Thank you so much for your kind words and support. Keep asking her questions. He showed me all the things I had mailed to him over the years, keeping it all in a small picture album. The initial information that was given to me was that he lived with his mother. Also the executive director of the Islamic Center at NYU, Latif said his ongoing communication with Turkish and Syrian students, alumni . Hi Chrystie! Especially if you look for them on Amazon or make them yourself. Thanks so much! There is clearly something wrong somewhere. . I like that every kid gets a gift and the only way this is possible is for all of the money to be pooled together. We counsel the child and family on using the money wisely and make sure that the use of the gift is developmentally appropriate for the child (i.e. It seems this post is still being read by a lot of people who also post concerns about their sponsor ships and getting answers and help here, so I shall try and post my question and maybe Ill get some help and answers here. Regrettably, we cant make things better if we dont know there is a problem. During all my (perfect) letter writing correspondence to both of my British sponsors (and that one South Korean church), we were always told by the student center staff here at my church to write down the amount in Philippine pesos what we have received (the usual Xmas gift, Bday gift, the usual money gift twice a year. Samuel told me that Compassion has been able to reach and get children from here just recently and the number keep pouring in since then. and I felt God pulling my heart to give my testimony. Compassion only has about 7-10% more children than there are sponsors. I know the Colorado Springs area well. Also, please note that our leaders are faithful sponsors and donors as well, and personally and financially support the ministry. Unfortunately, criminals sometimes prey on that generosity. Therefore, its difficult for the tutors to help him answer questions without your letter there for reference, even though they do encourage the kiddos to bring their letters or remember what their sponsor wrote. Didnt gt one at all, really. I have been the sponsor of a Iddi Seleman since 2006. When the kids first get into the program they often write a first letter that is then held to send out to their sponsor once they get one. I sponsor a little girl from the Phillipines.When I send extra money as a gift,does she or her family receive the full amount that I send? If youre gonna coach someone on anything let it be gratitude! That is all. Being able to watch our Compassion children grow and change over the years has been such a gift - and my family and I MOST look forward . https://blog.compassion.com/tag/emilda-soriano/. I dont like the idea of speaking with someone on the phone n them telling me that if I send more than the recommended amount that it will still go to my child at Christmas, but I read on a paper that it will be devided among others. Once the letters are received, they are printed out as a high quality print. They are so excited to get letters from their sponsors the letters are precious to them. Im becoming concerned, and it would be nice to know if shes okay or if its just the letter writing change thats the problem. In regards to your childs profile on the website, the information under Community, Child Development Center, and Child information are only changed if there is new information to add to it. Our goal is that the children in our program follow Jesus Christ in faith and deed, support themselves and share with others in need, are responsible members of their families, churches, communities and nations; and maintain their own physical well-being by the time they complete our Child Sponsorship Program. The rest of the gift goes to Faith, and a worker from the center will help her and the family decide how they are going to use it. It is quite a joyous day when the letters arrive at the project and children wait expectantly to receive a letter. These leaders dont produce anything they simply administer the money that we the sponsors have given and thats worth up to half a million salary plus perks. Kay, it sounds like youre really concerned and we appreciate your care for your child and completely understand your desire for transparency and clarification regarding your childs situation! You can opt into getting the original as i have but who knows when you might receive it as everything involving the mail system with compassion seems to be messed up right now. We want our program to be effective, so we monitor the child development centers to make sure they are making a difference in the lives of the children we serve. Emilys reply to you, below, is very good, and I hope you will follow through on her request. Do the greetings sometimes seemed coached? . -And much more! The website of Compassion is much improved these days, which allows us to easier communicate with the children from time to time, by writing them letters. Other Income $7M. Also, in the past, many of our translators were volunteers. In the last letter sent, he asked if I had children or pets. The children do attend the Compassion child development center for a variety of activities, but they go to school the same number of hours and days as every other child at their school does :). We appreciate your grace and patience as we move over to a new system together. Please know we are praying this is all over soon and that letters start flowing again! Weve sponsored a child named Danna in Colombia for many years, but the communication with her has been poor. Compassion's core strategy for combating child poverty is one-to-one sponsorship. With months in between being able to view letters, it is sometimes difficult to remember what you have and havent shared with your children. We definitely want you to be confident that your children are receiving your loving letters and gifts. Social Shares. Or is this a bogus email like I think it is? I too, am in a similar position. Please know that we care deeply for the children in our program and are grateful for the time and resources youve chosen to pour into helping release Lenilson from poverty and encourage him in his potential in Christ. Now with our new system, they are translated through very advanced, intelligent software that learns words as it goes so that letters get translated even quicker! The goal is to ensure Compassions ability to attract and maintain the expertise required of a President & CEO equal to the scope and complexity of the global ministry. Typically, all of their communication is verbal with their family and the people in their community. I also see a new letter from Danna is on its way as of very recently, and I hope you receive it soon. They are real and at least they are working hard todo as much as possible for that $38/month. Let me explain something about the monthly. The week after Christmas my husband almost died. Children do not always know how to express their thanks or communicate their feelings, plans and dreams butwe encourage you to keep feeding love into your childs life. Id encourage you to ask just a few questions per letter and highlight one or two so the translator can help her remember those are important to answer. An organization similar to this is Feed My Starving Children there the child receives 24 cents out of every quarter and will tell you that is enough for one meal. Responsibilities. Be assured that Compassion remains committed to stewarding your gifts with sound fiscal management, accountability and transparency with you and always with the children as our first priority! It will take them some time to iron out the kinks in the system although i keep hoping and praying they revert back to the old way. Our core mission remains to release children from poverty in Jesus name. I was so excited to be sponsoring children through compassion but over a few years began to wonder if the letters were coming from the children I sponsored. Please explain. Compassion is a top-notch organization and I wish I could sponsor more kids! There is much going back and forth about the integrity of the organization and looking for proof that one should sponsor a child through Compassion or not. Our primary focus is on holistic child development through sponsorship. Therefore, it is common to see older children in younger grade levels. Please let me know if you are still sponsoring and if there is any way that we can make this up to you. I sponsored a child from El Salvador for 7 years, beginning when she was 11 and ending when she became 18. Im sorry to hear that so many people feel their letters are generic and not coming from the children. So we do still send some communications via mail. Both my children have indicated that they visit the center once a week (4 times a month). I am a beneficiary of Compassion International and I categorically believe its not a sham as my sponsor paid for my education right from secondary school through college.I am now working and am preparing to sponsor a child myself to give back to the society. Their attendance at the center is in addition to their schooling, it does not replace it. Trying to have more patience, and most of all I pray my little Pamela is safe and sound. I get a letter that says a gift was purchased for Susi and the rest of the money was put into a fund to buy gifts for other children. May God bless Compassion International. Compassion International Hang in there. Working in the contact center, sponsors and donors call me and want to know if we if Compassion is trustworthy or if its a scam. Sometimes I get letters that arent noted as translated and sometimes they are translated. 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