Another Day, Another Program (written by Erin)

So yesterday we visited the very youngest children helped by a Compassion program and today we met with the oldest children/young adults that Compassion reaches out to: university students.

University is not so different across the world. Ladies eat lunch quickly and head back to the common area in the dorm to catch some soap operas before their next class. Freshmen feel completely lost during the first couple weeks of school trying to find the appropriate buildings for their classes. Some students have quite an adjustment from high school to university level expectations. Many find they have to rush, almost running, to make it to their next class because it is all the way across campus.

I’d like to think my own university experience was just yesterday, but the memories retreat further into the past with each passing day!

The very top student leaders in Compassion’s Child Development Sponsorship Program are accepted into the Leadership Development Program where they are again sponsored to attend university, continue developing spiritually, and complete a ten-week field placement while in school.

The young men and women we met today should be all the proof that is needed to see the difference Compassion is making in the lives of disadvantaged children. All of them express that, through the help of Compassion, their sponsors, and God, they have been brought up from the most desperate circumstances to become university students.

Each and every LDP student is working so selflessly, with a goal of changing lives in their community, their country, and even the world.

If you already sponsor a younger child, I have to tell you that I learned today, without a doubt, that your child thinks the world of you. Your letters encourage them and make them want to be the best they can be. Your child feels accountable to do well and obediently follow the Lord because of their relationship with you. They think of you as an adoptive parent.

If you’d like to have such a relationship, whether with a younger child, or a young adult attending university, it’s just a click away. You will not regret it! You can hear for yourself how these LDP students feel in the previous post.