Compassion Australia CEO’s mission to end child marriage
Sydney, Australia For Clare Steele, International Women’s Day is personal. A mother and advocate living in Newcastle, New South Wales, Steele believes International Women’s Day is “not about empowering ourselves; it’s about promoting others”. As a result, she’s working hard this March to speak up for women – and especially girls – whose voices are […]
Wow!: No longer solely a recipient of Compassion support, Philippines sets about raising its own funds
DAVID ADAMS reports on how how the Philippines has become just the second country where Compassion’s child development programs have been run to start its own fundraising efforts in support of them…
Essay: Answering hunger with hope – the impact of the global food crisis on children
CLARE STEELE, CEO of Compassion Australia, says we must act now to tackle the “devastating” impacts of the global food crisis…
International Women’s Day: Australian women Christian leaders look to empower women and girls across the globe
PETA MCCARTNEY speaks to three Christian women leaders in Australia – Clare Steele, CEO of Compassion Australia, Melissa Lipsett, CEO of Bapist World Aid Australia and Sharon Hollis, president of the Uniting Church in Australia – about the challenges females are facing around the world…
Confronting challenging times: How Australian Christian agencies are reinventing their work through the COVID-19 upheaval
CHRISTOPHER GILBERT reports on how Australian Christian agencies are adapting during the coronavirus pandemic…
WOW! WHY THESE REMARKABLE DADS PROUDLY MAKE REUSABLE SANITARY PADS
In a story first published on Compassion Australia’s blog, CAROLINE MWINEMWESIGWA and ROZ WALSH look at how a program training people to make sanitary pads for girls in Uganda not only addressed the issue of “period poverty” but changed mindsets…
CYCLING FOR A CAUSE: RIDERS CROSS AUSTRALIA TO SHINE A SPOTLIGHT ON CHILDREN IN NEED
DAVID ADAMS speaks to Rodney Olsen, one of 24 riders who have cycled across the vast Australian continent to raise money and awareness of the work of Christian child sponsorship and development organisation Compassion Australia in lifting children out of poverty…
PICTURE GALLERY: HAITI IN THE AFTERMATH OF STORM DEVASTATION
See a gallery of the images of the devastation in Haiti here …
HEART OF COMPASSION: WESS STAFFORD’S MISSION TO CHANGE THE WAY WE SEE CHILDREN
DAVID ADAMS speaks with Wess Stafford, president of Compassion International, about his work to bring hope to children across the globe…