The next installment in my series on the ABCs of Compassion is the word ‘holistic’.
Why is it important that Compassion uses a holistic child development model?
Merriam-Webster defines ‘holistic’ as: “relating to or concerned with wholes or with complete systems rather than with the analysis of, treatment of, or dissection into parts”.
All of us have critical needs that need to be met every day.
We all need water.
We all need food.
We all need shelter.
We all need clothing.
We all need basic medical needs met.
We all need to know we are loved.
Imagine trying to survive without one of these basic needs and you will have a hard time. Period.
Compassion realizes that children growing up in extreme poverty need more than just clean water and food.
Compassion realizes that children growing up in extreme poverty need to have their physical, social, economic, and spiritual needs met.
Holistic.
The whole child.
When you sponsor a child through Compassion, you become a partner with the local church and that child’s family.
Your monthly sponsorship provides for the holistic needs of the child, their physical needs, their social needs, the economic needs, and the spiritual needs.
You are providing more than just clean water and food.
You are given the opportunity to pour into that child through letters and prayers to help them dream and have a bigger hope for their future.
Will you sponsor a Compassion child today?