How to cancel your compassion child

How To Cancel Compassion International [Top Hacks]

Compassion International is a Christian charity organization headquartered in Colorado Springs, Colorado. Its mission is to aid the development of children living in poverty by providing social, economic, emotional, and spiritual support. The organization works in 25 countries and sponsors more than 1.9 million babies, children, and young adults. You can become a Compassion International sponsor and support a child in their program. If you want to opt-out of Compassion International’s child sponsorship for any reason, read on to learn how to do it. 

Cancel Compassion International on Your Own

Check out what methods you can use to cancel your Compassion International sponsorship:

Cancel Your Compassion International Membership Over the Phone

If you want to cancel your child sponsorship, you should contact the Compassion International customer service at (800) 336-7676. The customer service is available Monday–Friday from 7 a.m. to 5.30 p.m. Prepare strong reasons for canceling your membership—they’ll do their best to keep you as a sponsor. Another thing you should keep in mind is that you might spend a lot of time trying to reach the customer service representative. You can use DoNotPay to shorten the time you spend waiting on the line.

Cancel Compassion International Through Their Website

If you can’t get in touch with the Compassion International customer service on the phone, you can fill out a contact form on their website. Here is what you need to do:

1. Go to the Compassion International contact page
2. Leave your name and email address
3. Select My sponsorship(s), donations, and/or gifts 
4. Explain that you want to end your membership 

Check your inbox regularly to see whether they replied. Don’t be surprised if it takes them forever to answer. If you want to terminate your Compassion International child sponsorship with no fuss, use DoNotPay!

DoNotPay Can Cancel Compassion International for You

Canceling memberships via DoNotPay is super easy—you don’t have to deal with any customer service. DoNotPay can cancel your Compassion International membership in an instant. Follow these steps to cancel your membership:

1. Access DoNotPay through your web browser
2. Choose Find Hidden Money
3. Write Compassion International in the text box

You will get an email from us as soon as we cancel your membership. 

DoNotPay can also monitor your subscriptions and unsubscribe you from the ones you don’t use!

Can I Put My Compassion International Sponsorship On Hold? 

You can contact the Compassion International customer service and ask to put your child's sponsorship on hold. You will need to explain why you want to pause the sponsorship, and they might let you do so. 

What Are the Potential Problems When Canceling Compassion International?

Giving up on sponsoring a child can be a difficult decision to make. Some Reddit users say Compassion International made it even worse by trying to guilt them into renewing their sponsorship.

Can’t Solve Disputes With Compassion International? DoNotPay Can Help You Sue Them

DoNotPay is the world’s first virtual lawyer that can help you sue people and companies in small claims court. If Compassion International has wronged you and you want to seek your justice, you can use DoNotPay to lead you through the process of taking the organization to small claims court. DoNotPay can help you:

• Collect necessary documentation
• Compose your statement
• Sound more confident when presenting your case

Find Other Humanitarian Organizations

If you want to keep helping children, you may consider donating to one of the following organizations:

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I’m Not Sure I Can Continue My Sponsorship

First of all, thank you so much for sponsoring a child with Compassion. We are, and always have been, very grateful for your partnership with us. Through your faithful support your sponsored child is able to access education, health check-ups and many other opportunities to break free from poverty.

We understand how difficult it is to think about ending a commitment like sponsorship. Whether you’ve supported your sponsored child for a while or a short time, it’s not easy to consider breaking the relationship you’ve formed with them.

Good news! You may not need to end your sponsorship.

We understand your initial decision to start this journey with your sponsored child was an important one and can offer our support should you encounter challenges in life that may affect your sponsorship.

Depending on your circumstances, there are a few options available to you before you consider ending your support.

These options are to:

1. Reduce your monthly sponsorship contribution

Depending on your length of sponsorship, we may be able to temporarily arrange a reduction in your monthly financial contribution based on what you can afford.

2. Request Compassion cover your financial contribution for a short period

Once again, depending on your circumstances, we may be able to offer a brief donation break where your financial contributions can be paused. Compassion will cover the cost of your sponsorship for a reasonable time.

3. Consider supporting an appeal or Compassion Interventions

You can also choose to give “one-off” donations any time you wish or a monthly contribution of your choice. While you will no longer sponsor an individual child, your support will still make a positive difference.

Lives are changed and communities transformed through programmes that provide safe water, education and training, disaster relief and much more.
For instance, when the caregivers of children supported through a Compassion project in Rwanda formed a savings and credit cooperative, Compassion project staff trained the group in soapmaking to generate income.

When COVID-19 hit, the cooperative became busier than ever. Besides helping the group earn an income, the liquid soap has helped boost hygiene and sanitation levels in their community, playing a large role in preventing the illness.

What’s the next step?

We’d love to talk to you about the option of reducing your monthly sponsorship contribution or going on a donation break.

Please do email us at [email protected] or call us on 01932 836490. We’re here for you too and would be delighted to help you. Our phone lines are open from 9:30am – 6pm, Monday – Thursday and 9:30am – 5pm on Fridays. 

Did my sponsorship make a difference?

If you do need to cancel, we want to say a massive thank you! Your sponsorship has made a huge difference in your sponsored child’s life. Many children were able to grow up to break free from the consequences of extreme poverty through sponsors like you.

From police officers to entrepreneurs and doctors, we’re delighted to share stories of many inspiring Compassion graduates. Do take a moment to read some of their stories and know that you too, have contributed to providing opportunities for your sponsored child.

If I must end my sponsorship, how will it affect my sponsored child?

Please rest assured your sponsored child will not lose their place in the sponsorship programme because your financial support has ended. When a sponsor says goodbye to their sponsored child, we will find another person who can take on the support of that child.

During this time, the child will continue to receive the benefits of the programme. Except receiving your sponsor letters, birthday and family gifts, they won’t go without.

The Compassion project they attend may be able to receive extra support through Compassion’s Unsponsored Children Fund to care for them.

Saying goodbye

We would love it if you would write to your sponsored child one last time should you need to end your sponsorship. We understand it may be hard to find the right words. So, we’ve put together some helpful tips below.

Do:

•  Let your sponsored child know you’re no longer able to be their sponsor.
•  Reassure them it’s not their fault.
• Highlight what sponsorship has meant for you – how much you’ve enjoyed being their sponsor and what you’ve gained from the relationship.
• Give them a word of encouragement.
• Write your hopes for them and let them know you will keep them in your prayers.

We understand it may be difficult to say goodbye, but please remember the difference you’ve already made in a child’s life through your sponsorship.
We are so thankful for your partnership with us. The local church will make sure that your sponsored child is cared for, regardless of your sponsorship cancellation.

Other ways I can support Compassion

We would still greatly value your prayers! Please keep praying for our ministry and for the child you once sponsored. Prayers are powerful, and we are certain our God answers them in His time and in His way.

You’re more than welcome to sign up to our monthly prayer and stories email to keep you updated about Compassion’s work.

We also have many generous donors who may not have the time to write to their sponsored children. If you would like to offer words of encouragement and hope to a child, you may want to consider becoming a correspondent. Please contact us and ask about opportunities if that’s the case.

We’re grateful for your care and for the positive impact it’s making on a young life. Your support is making a difference!

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Education of compassion and responsiveness

Have you ever seen scenes like this?

The kid is merrily stomping along the path. It looks like he just learned to walk. Suddenly, something caught his attention. He squats down and looks at the little bugs. "It's ants!" Mom explains. The kid grabs the first ant and squeezes it between his fingers.

Ant "breaks". The kid throws it away and catches the second, then the third, the fourth ... Mom with tenderness watches the dexterity of her child . ..

Or, let's say the grandfather is tired and lies down to rest. Then the grandchildren come running and, with a squeal, begin to jump on the bed, disturb the grandfather and demand that he read a book to them. And what is the reaction of the grandfather himself and other adults present? Most often, again tenderness! And now an elderly man, groaning and overpowering fatigue, begins to entertain his pets.

But everything comes from childhood. Very often it seems to parents that while their child is still small, it is too early to talk about anything serious with him. “He will still have time, let him rejoice, why injure in vain,” they think. (And later, one of these parents is bitterly perplexed: “Why is our child thinking only about himself, indifferent and rude? Why do we put our whole soul into him, and he grows up so insensitive!”). nine0004

What are these moms and dads missing out on? By their inaction, they undermine the first rudiments of emotional sensitivity, responsiveness, and a sense of compassion.

Meanwhile, these qualities are necessary not only for others, but also for the child himself. Since a person who has grown up emotionally deaf is less happy than a person with a developed “emotional hearing”. After all, such a person has fewer joys in life, because he knows how to rejoice only for himself, and, due to his “emotional deafness”, often finds himself in situations of mutual resentment and misunderstanding. nine0004

Whereas a sympathetic person, who knows how to sympathize, empathize and sympathize with others, receives joy from deep, sincere communication with people and from their successes and victories. He, as a rule, is open and friendly, it is pleasant to communicate with him, he has real friends, he finds a way out of conflict situations more easily, and gets into them less often. And all these qualities must be brought up from early childhood.

Psychologists have such a term - "empathy", which means the ability to empathize and the ability to put oneself in the place of another person or animal. nine0004

Therefore, empathy is very important for cultivating those qualities in a person that we have been talking about. The level of development of empathy determines the interaction of a person with the outside world, an adequate assessment of himself and his actions, which means his success and the ability to be happy.

Empathy is an innate ability that primarily depends on the temperament and other individual characteristics of the child: some children are emotional, open, sociable, they are interested in people, others are focused on their inner world, uncommunicative or superficial in their feelings and emotions. Secondly, the ability to empathize depends on communication, upbringing and the environment in which the child grows up. And here it is already in our power to help the child develop “emotional intelligence”. nine0004

The development of empathy, compassion and responsiveness takes place in several stages. This is important to consider when raising a child. We will try to describe each stage in the development of empathy and the above qualities, not only from the point of view of psychology, but also from the point of view of parental pedagogy.

The first stage is “emotional contagion”. This quality of a person is laid in the first year of life. It is important here what emotions prevail in the mother’s communication with her baby: joy and love or irritation and rejection. The child absorbs, remembers, and then returns back his first attitudes. nine0004

The second stage is the “feeling of compassion” , which is formed in the second year of life. During this period, the baby begins to show an active interest in other children and adults. He already distinguishes clearly expressed emotions of others and experiences them as his own, for example, he may cry when another child cries, or start laughing when his parents laugh. At the show and request of an adult, a child may regret (stroke) his mother, another child, a cat. This is how the first sprouts of empathy and compassion appear. nine0004

The third stage - "the ability to understand others" develops at 3-4 years of age. During this period, the child distinguishes himself from the world around him, he has his own I. At the same time, he begins to understand that other people have their own feelings and desires. It turns out that not only “I want to eat, but my mother too”; not only "I'm angry, but my mother is too." So, the baby begins to “hear” others, he can sometimes show sympathy and a desire to help, especially to loved ones (mother is tired - she gives her a book, “covers” with a blanket). But while, due to his age, the child is very egocentric, his own feelings are all-consuming, and he is completely captured by them. Therefore, most often a child of this age tends to ignore the feelings and desires of other people. nine0004

The fourth stage - "sympathy and responsiveness" is formed in children 4-6 years old. Now the child already knows how to focus on the problems of other people, correlate his own and other people's feelings, can foresee the consequences of his own and other people's actions. Shows a desire to assist, however, for the time being the child does not always know what to do and how to help the suffering.

Fifth stage - "rejoicing " (testing joy from the success of other people) and altruism (selfless concern for others and willingness to sacrifice one's own interests)" is formed between six and nine years. During this period, if the development of the child went correctly and his “I” was fully formed, he already reacts quite quickly to the problems of his peers, and provides them with adequate and effective assistance.

Altruism is the highest moral form of responsiveness. Remember how the roof of the water park collapsed in February 2004? And the girl Sasha Ershova, with a broken arm and a concussion, held a 3-year-old baby in her arms for more than an hour, although she swam perfectly and could easily dive under the rubble of the slabs and get out. nine0067