I will find it very difficult to forgive Compassion UK for that: * My child was hungry and you did not feed him. I am very sorry that you did not receive a thank you letter for the gifts that you sent to Marcela. Also, please note that our leaders are faithful sponsors and donors as well, and personally and financially support the ministry. How many sponsors does it take to support one child through the process? Letters are important. Do you recall if you received this one? Also, the tutors helping your child write his letters want to make sure his letters are authentic, and they dont want to take away from what your child is actually saying by embellishing. Hi Lisa! releasing children from poverty in the name of Jesus Christ. I just received a letter stating hes now in the sixth grade. 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. I am from Kenya and am an alumni of the Compassion Sponsorship Program, I graduated from the program at the beginning of last year. It arrived at the country office on January 1, which means he probably wrote it before Christmas. Hi Todd! We also have donation opportunities to further assist the families of the children we serve. For the case of Lisa, the said child is supposed to be leaving the program if she is 22 years of age. Now its his birthday and I dont want to put in the card what Im sending if he is not going to get it. We are so grateful that you responded to God tugging at your heart to sponsor sweet Mugisha. We put in a birth date for the child as closely estimated as we can and if we find more information on the child later, well then update his profile. Compassion International Senior Accountant Remote 30d+ The initial information that was given to me was that he lived with his mother. I completely understand your desire for more personable and unique letters from your sweet boy in Bolivia. What a blessing that you want to partner with Compassion and sponsor a child in a country you are able to visit! Hi Christie, Facilitating Global Growth As Compassion grew over six-plus decades, it quickly realized it was outpacing its processes and global technology. In fact, weve been told that if an incoming ESOL student has a Jan 1, ______ birth date, we can expect that it was a child whose family didnt know the childs birthday at all. Please let me know if you are still sponsoring and if there is any way that we can make this up to you. Several changes with the calculation adjusted our overall rating. I cannot express how sorry I am to hear of the doubts you have about Compassion and whether your one-to-one sponsorship of Mugisha is real. I never received a reply from Compassion UK. See our 2018 Annual Report to see where your money goes. We are still working through all the bugs in this new system (which I am guessing you will understand as a programmer yourself). I cannot afford the $3,000.00+ price to visit for a meal, then fly all the way back home. I currently sponsor 6 children, but unfortunately will no longer do that. My concern is how are my funds helping him if he cannot attend the Centre? If you have additional questions, please email us at [emailprotected]. We actually just received the letter and photo back from the country office in Bolivia regarding the $500 gift you sent to his project :). This is useful if the letter is a scam as HMRC will have a record to refer to and flag up to others if necessary. I also felt hassled by Compassion International for not including prayers in my letters, not a big deal, but annoying. However if you want to send money around christmas to your child and her family, just send it as a family or child gift and it will go to them. Compassion International is a legitimate, wonderful organization. Many children dont make it to their fifth birthday in impoverished countries and so the birthday is not held as valuable because whats important is seeing to it that the child makes it through the first few years of life. I truly believe that Compassion International is the best child sponsorship program out there. I do want to encourage you that your child received 100% of your generous graduation gift, birthday gifts, family gifts, and other child gifts sent over the years, each letter, and sticker that you encouraged her with, and we are grateful for the impact you made in her life. If you are in business, either for profit or non-profit problems are bound to crop up that is inevitable. Thank you so much for blessing him with that! The same is true of Uganda. If you want to cancel your child sponsorship, you should contact the Compassion International customer service at (800) 336-7676. our blog we wrote about communicating with your child through social media. Top Ranked Companies Use these simple writing prompts to write your sponsored child a letter that will bring them hope and help you get to know them a little more. One of my kids always buys goats no matter how much or to whom i send it (family vs child gift). The Birthday gift I usually send around my sponsored childs birthday always arrives very late! One way we have increased the speed of letters is by having the letters scanned and sent electronically between the United States and the countries we work in instead of air mailed. You will also receive an updated photo of your child every two years as we know how much sponsors enjoy watching their children mature and grow. The reason for this is because once a child completes our program, we have no way to require a thank you letter from that child since they no longer attend the project. My wife and I are traveling to the Philippines this year. I love sponsoring through Compassion International and feel that I have a great relationship with my sponsored child. They talk about the letters that were so valuable from their sponsors and how much they treasured those relationships. I fully believe you will be greatly encouraged. As a Christian organization, everything we do needs to be worthy of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ and we want as much as possible to get to the children we serve. Compassions bias to fund child development over maintaining a large asset balance impacted our rating. Her profile states that she is currently in the US equivalent to 9th grade. We appreciate your support of this ministry to release children from poverty in Jesus name! If you do give big financial gifts youll often get a pic of what the kid bought with the money. Ask questions. Compassion International I traveled over 4,000 miles to get to that point, to that date. Exact same letter, writing, and drawing, apparently from our sponsored child. Please do research us and prayerfully consider whether this is the organization you are called to give to. If he is that wealthy why is he even taking a salary. Compassion, yes they are a company with human flaws like any other company, but they are doing a great job with my measly $38/month. Please let me know if you have any further questions or concerns. Emilys reply to you, below, is very good, and I hope you will follow through on her request. Junk King Colorado Springs. Most of us who are contributing $38 a month to sponsor a child do not make anywhere near that much money. Also please provide me with the childs full name, or child number, and the dates of these letters. I am very sorry for the disappointment you are feeling about our finances, and Im sorry that this has made you decide to no longer support Compassion. Not one mark, from writing, to drawing, was even the slightest bit off. I recently recieved a packet from a friend to spnsor a child. They are excessive. That is so sweet of you! Thank you Darren Bailey for your honest sharing! I miss Gadiel. I thought over the last couple of years, this would change, but I just received a letter dated 9/4/16 and it is the same information I have received many times with no true update on Amele. When Compassion is trying to get people to sign up and sponsor a child, they say here is what 38 dollars a month will do. This transition has been difficult for everyone, and I know it is hard to hang in there! I have received two, maybe three pastor letters, over the years, from different pastors and, I think, different countries. and as compassion says its the Lords money so why panic if you know its going directly to a child in need. It was true. You may be aware of the many system updates we have recently undergone, and one of the largest updates has been with the way child letters are processed and delivered. I am so sorry that you have doubts and you are disappointed with the letters from Amele. I always receive a picture of my child with her gift from the extra money I sent for birthdays. The question of trustworthiness goes beyond financial accountability. In my heart after hearing a native worker right from within the center talk about the organization with such passion, I wanted to give my recommendation and my witness story that Compassion International is an awesome program to join in on and be a part of. We simply would like to provide the education for those who have the desire to give more on how they can give more. I see that you emailed us and contacted a representative yesterday after posting this comment. Compassion strives to be an organization of integrity in all areas. I just took care of updating your preferences to receive updates from Compassion and about your child by email :). Please know that it costs us very, very little to print most of our mailings because they are done in house. Good Morning, She is receiving your letters and your hand-made items. Your letters of love and support give Edith the message that she has value, worth and is loved. 2.CHILD FOCUSED: When you sponsor a child through Compassion International a minimum of 80% of your monthly gift goes toward meeting the spiritual and physical needs of your sponsored child through a partnership with a church in his or her neighborhood. I see that you got the chance to speak with one of our representatives in the Philippines. Also, bookmarks will not be translated but sometimes you can find bookmarks in your childs language! Im so sorry that we didnt get the opportunity to answer your questions and clarify your concerns. Did I understand you correctly that you have never received third party letters from us about your childs center or church? I think that it is worthwhile. Thank you so much for your love and care for each of them! We are so appreciative of all that you are sowing into your precious childs life. Compassion does a lot but they arent miracle workers. Majority of these peoples in these places do not see anyone get into their cars and go to work every day, they may see a neighborhood aquaintance in their community get into a little make shift wooden buggy with an old field horse to carry them around a neighborhood to sell vegetables because they were lucky enough to have ground in their possession to grow them, and go around every day hoping to sell a little for their own food and maybe their rent-IF they were that upper class!! We all are trying. Id encourage you to look us up on their website if you havent already. All of the proof I could ever need is in the letters and photographs of my little girl, Ludis. I sincerely apologize that the photos you received were not the same child and that the letters were not personal. Im hoping I can clarify the confusion regarding the letter time frame. Trying to have more patience, and most of all I pray my little Pamela is safe and sound. I have received pictures, letters, and drawings from the girls telling me that they pray for me and the family also theyre both praying that one day I will be able to visit them. Its getting to be frustrating. They may not know how to express themselves to you in a letter, but you never know how impactful your letters are to them. I can see a few different letters in the system that we are working to process for you as fast as we can. I show that we processed this gift on May 17th. May the Lord, as only He can, provide you with the grace, peace, and wisdom to face whatever is in front of you. What does it mean for an organization to live with integrity? I contacted CI for an inquiry by live chat yesterday. My heart goes out to the work Compassion does. Im sorry to hear that so many people feel their letters are generic and not coming from the children. Especially if you look for them on Amazon or make them yourself. I was glad the child couldnt see that page. There are 8 jobs at Compassion International Explore them all Browse jobs by location Remote 8 jobs See all available jobs Salaries Salary estimated from 315 employees, users, and past and present job advertisements on Indeed. I wondered how the childs health, provision, mental well-being, without a mother who was in hospital, was of no concern of Compassion UK? I suggest that you keep them simple, brief, and number and highlight each question. oh yes, I saw the article on web about the man who travels to help other people. Recently we received a letter informing us he has leukemia and is in the hospital getting weekly treatments. Each country that we partner with has a maximum age that the children are able to attend the program and it varies per country. I am so happy to hear you were able to achieve a college degree as a result of compassion. Please let us know if you have any other questions or concerns. I would suggest you would have them make a video at least once a year, on their birthdays, and showing more of their lives to us so that we can be assured there is a positive impact, which we 100% believe there is. I receive photo updates every couple of years, but except for the first two years, I have not received further updated information, unless it came from the child. I am no longer interested in sponsoring this child after reviewing the site. Just wanted to send a hello and God bless message to him and his Garcia family and spirtual family over there. 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 . Some seasons of life are more enjoyable, I think it's really important to teach our children, as Christians, to have compassion on the poor. I hope it was just this centre and that others are more genuine. Once the gift is received, a thank you letter will always be written and sent to their sponsor. Yes, donations made to Compassion are tax deductible. By the way, a comment that I actually posted first, yesterday, was a reply to Kay, but this morning I am seeing it below my comment to you and your reply. $330,000 a year for CEO is too much. Hi Helena! Hi Dennis! Letter Writing GIF by Compassion. Heres my question: Weve been sponsoring a child in India for over a year now. I pray for continued success in communication and connections, especially during an extremely challenging time for so many people. She doesnt seem to have gotten any of our letters and knows nothing about our family. Actually Compassion only has a 3 out of 5 star rating from ministry watch. This meansthey may haveforgotten questions that were asked in a previous letter or details you may have shared with them. Some do not start school until a later age or may even have to skip attending school altogether due to family circumstances. Now I am getting stuff about taking a trip to hug my child. It would be goodbye in April 2014 for me too. I have received letters from Mexico, but often many many months later than letters sent to them. You can toss the packet as we will not need that back. Hi Pam! Hello. Hi, Jill! Compassion began using Splunk technology for traditional IT and security use cases, including log management and as a SIEM. Protecting children and the sponsors resource is enthrined in the high level integrity as a Compassion International pillar. We understand that some may feel uneasy about the salaries of our upper management and board of directors. Other than that, I love Compassion and the children and what God is doing through both? I started sponsoring a child with CCF/Childfund first but after a few years I discovered child sponsorship through Compassion. Again, Im so sorry for the confusion this caused you but we want to keep our sponsors informed at all times and updated on the records we have for your child. Please see our other post about our new letter guidelines and why we are scanning, sending letters digitally, and printing them on the other end. Compassion International Fraud Alert Fraud Alert Fraud Alert Compassion International values the support of its donors, who give generously to help children in need. The sponsorship model was launched in 1953 and the organization officially became Compassion International in 1963. We really have doubts about CI now and the trust we had is breaking, which is not good. By the way, you are welcome to post here, email [emailprotected], or call 800-336-7676 with any concerns or questions you have. Its also likely that his parents didnt have his birth certificate when they came to the center to register him. For example, the letter that you wrote in February would have been received by Leo sometime around late April to early May. Compassions2016-2017 990 form shows our CEO, Santiago Jimmy Mellados reportable compensation from theministry as $340,940 which is well below other ministrieswithin this same field. Compassion International is the world's leading authority in holistic child development through sponsorship. Stop wasting this money on paper, printing, postage, staff time to send it all. However, any letter you write online should automatically send a confirmation email with the text of your letter included as soon as you submit it. Im wondering if she has possibly actually received the April letter but its just not showing up that way in the account information. Again, because taking pictures is costly with everything involved from taking the picture to getting it to you and would take much staff time when they have many duties throughout the day along with carrying on project activities, we cannot do it for every letter that is sent. However, please know we take financial integrity very seriously to ensure we are caring for our beneficiaries the best we possibly can. I get entirely too much mail and the money used to produce and send it could be better spent on the children. You can expect to receive up to six letters per year from him if you are writing regularly (about every two months). However, regrettably, these system updates have not been without some bumps along the way. As far as the letters, we see personal pronouns often mixed up by our translators. Please be encouraged to know that the children treasure the letters they receive from their sponsors. If you have any further concerns about the letters, please send them to me personally and I would be happy to investigate further. I agree they could be more resourceful by doing paperless statements, but thats almost like saying you wont tithe at church because the church spends money on the bulletins that they hand out, or on the coffee they offer.? Thank you so much for taking on this crucial role as a correspondent for Edith! Also, Im with all the other people that are tired of all the junk mail that comes every week. I woke up the next day with so much love and concern for the children living in poverty I immediately went online and I sign up to sponsor Juana from Honduras in Aug. 2009. That's especially true for an organization that champions the . Hardly. Sure they are. The project staff works with the children to help them better understand how to write letters to their sponsor and will provide suggestions for the children about topics they can write about or questions they can ask their sponsor. People have to decide for themselves. I was quite upset as one can imagine! Youre both right. Hi Vicki! You couldnt possibly know all the circumstances the child lives in day to day, even after ten years, but you should at least know if the child was willing, or capable to communicate more I had to sit down and share something with all of you two years ago I decided to sponsor a beautiful little girl in Honduras, who was then 8 years old. You didnt help. Will Compassion give us an address so we can locate this child and take gifts to him and his family? Please know that our desire is for every sponsor to have this opportunity to develop a relationship with their child. accountability / financial integrity / frequently asked questions / integrity / trust. What people have to realize is many of these children do not have the educational resources to be able to effective communicate, especially with a language barrier. For those that are thinking of dropping the sponsorship please, please reconsider and dont drop it. Enter your e-mail address to have our posts sent directly to your inbox. Also, our leaders are faithful sponsors and donors as well, and personally and financially support the ministry. I found it very rewarding; however, I was very disappointed the way it ended. You actually spoke with one of our previously sponsored children that are on Team Constellation. Thank you Like others who have commented here, it seems my letters to my girls are backing up or sitting in translation for a long time. Some of us get letter writing blues, too . Compassion gives formal updates on your child every two years and because of that, our children keep their sponsors updated through letters being written back and forth. Responsibilities. Hats off to them for wanting to apply their unique talents to the giving process. This is why you received some conflicting information regarding time frames for your letters. I guess the next best thing for non profit is an organization that actually provides proof each and every day, that will be the company that eliminates Compassion. Article content. Im so sorry that when you spoke with us, we referred to your child as a girl instead of a boy. Please email us at [emailprotected], and we would be happy to answer this and any other questions you may have there. Sent money for a Christmas Gift, received a letter from the child but no mention of a gift. I am sending an inquiry today to have Farel write another letter to you and make sure he is doing ok. I also want to sincerely apologize as it sounds like this sponsorship and our mailings have increased the burden. Their sponsor is the only person they write letters to. 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