A lack of access to up-to-date textbooks and learning resources can negatively affect children’s motivation and academic performance. This gift provides children living in poverty with access to textbooks at their Compassion centre, in a library space designed to help them study and learn with excellence!

Technology is a powerful tool in the fight against poverty. Computers are increasingly becoming a necessity for student success. This gift provides students with access to computers at their Compassion centre in a computer lab designed to help them achieve their educational goals!

This gift provides the learning materials and tuition fees for youth to complete a vocational training program. Your gift enables students to gain employable skills such as hairdressing, sewing, electrical work, welding, carpentry, plumbing, mechanics, baking, culinary arts or IT support.

For students living in poverty, tuition fees can be the difference between being trapped or breaking free from the cycle of poverty. This gift covers tuition fees for students attending college or university, enabling them to achieve their dreams for the future.

When you give to the Education and Training Fund, your gift provides kids and youth in poverty with access to learning resources and educational opportunities to equip them for futures free from poverty. This includes textbooks and computers, as well as materials and tuition for vocational training, college or university. Worldwide, one in five kids are not in school and approximately 1 billion kids fell behind due to the COVID-19 pandemic. Your gift will make a transformative difference in the face of this staggering need.