Compassion Responders

See Your Incredible Impact in 2024

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Over the past 12 months, your generosity has helped more than 1.3 million crisis-affected children and their families. You’ve provided food and cash transfers to those suffering because of the global food crisis. You’ve given children trauma support and mental health care during conflicts in places like Ethiopia and Haiti. And you’ve provided thousands of families with a lifeline through shelter, medical care and water after natural disasters.

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A Special Update from Danielle, Compassion’s Disaster Response Expert

See the difference you’ve made this year by helping empower thousands of local churches to respond to disasters all over the world. Meet some special people from Karamoja, Uganda who will share how your gifts through Compassion Responders protected their community from hunger during the Global Food Crisis. And learn what the year ahead looks like for the children we serve together.

Featured Recipe

matooke peanut sauce
Learn to make matooke with peanut sauce, a daily staple in Loumo Lucia’s community in Karamoja, Uganda. Matooke is a type of green banana, as well as the name of this savory dish. This recipe substitutes plantains, the closest equivalent available in U.S. stores. The peanut sauce topping gives this national dish its delicious flavor!

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matooke peanut sauce

How You Can Pray for the Year Ahead

Changing Weather Patterns

El Niño and La Niña — Pacific Ocean climate patterns — impact global weather. The shift from El Niño to La Niña raises the risk of tropical storms and hurricanes in the Atlantic. Please pray for protection against extreme weather and for vulnerable families.

Hurricane & Typhoon Season

Experts predict a severe season for countries including the Philippines, Haiti, the Dominican Republic and Mexico. Please pray for a calm season with beneficial rains.

Conflict & Displacement

Pray for countries facing violence: Ethiopia (Tigray and Amhara conflicts), Haiti (political unrest and gangs), Myanmar (civil war) and Burkina Faso (anti-Christian violence). Ask for peace, healing and strengthened local churches.

Food Insecurity

Nine Compassion partner countries face severe food crises: Burkina Faso, El Salvador, Ethiopia, Guatemala, Haiti, Kenya, Malawi, Sri Lanka and Uganda. Pray for sustainable hunger solutions in these communities.

Local Church Partners

Pray for strength, provision and resilience for Compassion’s partner churches as they respond to disasters. May they be safe havens, bringing hope to children and families.

Highly Vulnerable Children

Crises can leave impoverished children without essential support like schooling, nutrition and health care. Pray for their provision and protection by families, friends, neighbors and churches.

For more ways to pray, please read our latest crisis updates.

Your Impact at a Glance

Your impact as a Compassion Responder has been felt around the world. Through your support, local churches have provided disaster relief in 571 crises. Here’s a breakdown of how you made a difference.

Small-scale disasters

512

Small-scale disasters.

122,130

Compassion children and family members served.

60%

Disasters related to small-scale flooding.

Large-scale disasters

59

Large-scale disasters.

1,205,091

Compassion children and family members served.

79%

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