What is the difference between child development and child sponsorship? How are they different? [Originally published Jun. 14, 2010]

What does sponsorship mean to the child and to the sponsor? Is it different if the sponsor grew up in poverty? [Originally published Jul. 11, 2008]

What do we lose on our journey from childhood to adulthood? Do we need it? Is it important? Should we care? [Originally published Aug. 22, 2008]

The first thing you notice when you wake up in Port-au-Prince is the smoke. Your eyes sting, and it feels as though you've had a smoky cloth held over your mouth all night from the cooking fires. [Originally published Jan. 12, 2009]

How much of the $38 I send to Compassion International each month to sponsor a child is used for the child? How much is used on fund raising? What does my child get? Where is the money going that isn't going to the children? [Originally published June 21, 2010]

The situation on the batey is as hard as the dirt ground, but there are a few shards of hope gleaming out of it. [Originally published Nov. 20, 2008]

Although age is a determining factor, our completion guidelines include consideration of the individual goals each child has personally set. [Originally published Jun. 24, 2010]

Each year more than 500,000 mothers die in childbirth or from pregnancy complications, most of which are preventable. Our Child Survival Program works to prevent this. [Originally published Jul. 21, 2009]

In the global fight against AIDS, the international community has brought access to lifesaving antiretroviral therapy to many health facilities around the world, but not all. Those lifesaving tablets that travel 10,000 miles sometimes don't make it far enough. [Originally published Nov. 4, 2009]

Holistic child development is how we release children from poverty. The curriculum standards we have in place for all of our programs are key to achieving this. [Originally published Aug. 26, 2010]