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Haiti Fact Sheet

Compassion in Haiti:

  • More than 64,000 Haitian children currently benefit from one-to-one sponsorship through Compassion International
  • Since 1968 Compassion has been working for the long-term release of children from the cycle of poverty that plagues more than 80% of the population in Haiti
  • Some 230 local church congregations across Haiti partner with Compassion to provide direct service to children and their families
  • Compassion maintains a full-time staff in Haiti of 73 who work with hundreds of local churches
  • Compassion lost a valued staff member who died after sustaining internal injuries during the earthquake
  • More than 15,000 children and 50 Compassion projects were in earthquake-affected areas
  • Compassion will provide sponsored children and their families with food, clothing and other basic necessities to help rebuild their lives

Quotes from Compassion International President and CEO on Haiti:

  • Wess Stafford, president and CEO of Compassion International: "As the aftershocks of this quake continue to be felt across Haiti, our goal is that waves of compassion will continue to be felt in the days, weeks, months and years ahead."
  • Wess Stafford on Compassion's work in Haiti: "Long after the media and others have moved on to the next disaster, Compassion will stay and grow, committed to the children of Haiti as we have been every day for over four decades - long before the rumblings of that massive quake."

How to Assist Compassion's work in Haiti:

  • Several options for partnering with Compassion to help the children of Haiti:
    • Make a donation to the relief effort in Haiti at Compassion.com
    • Sponsor a child - in Haiti or in other parts of the world - by visiting Compassion.com
    • Pray for the children, staff and church partners in Haiti

General Compassion Facts:

  • Compassion International is the world's largest Christian child development organization that works through local churches to permanently release children from poverty
  • Founded in 1952, Compassion successfully tackles global poverty one child at a time, serving more than 1 million children in 25 of the world's poorest countries 
  • Recognizing that poverty is more than a lack of money, Compassion works through local churches to holistically address the individual physical, economic, educational and spiritual needs of children - enabling them to thrive, not just survive. 

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