CompassionReviews of compassion.com

DO NOT SUBSCRIBE I asked them to cancel my subscription 4 months ago. They said they would, not only have they not cancelled, but they have the nerve to double charge me. The money doesnt even go towards the child.

DON'T HAVE ANYTHING TO DO WITH COMPASSION. I've been with them almost 30 years but they are crooked now. It used to be if you made a pymt over the phone with an agent, they took the pymt immediately. Last month I made a pymt with an agent for $141. I sponsor 3 kids. THEY TOOK TWO PYMTS TOTALLING $282 OFF MY CREDIT CARD the next day, and it took ONE WEEK TO BE RECREDITED. I thought it was a bug and shrugged it off. This month I paid again using an agent, off a debit card, and AGAIN they took $282 THE NEXT DAY, leaving me $6 in my account. I called a supervisor to complain, but they just gaslight you that it's just a preauth--they say the money's there. HA! I made the pymt on a Tuesday, and on Saturday had to hock jewelry just to have gas money. Now I will have to pay$40 in interest just to get my jewelry back, thanks to THEM robbing me. Chase tells me the extra $141 they took from me won't be recredited till at least Tuesday. So they shorted me out for one week. I made 2 complaints on their website and a BBB complaint, and they haven't bothered to respond.

No proper communication from that young person, just request more and more money, asking to pray for Catholic Church which we do not follow, no confirmations about money received.

We just noticed fraudulent activity that has been going on with our money being sent to this company. The last sum of money for the last six months we believe did not go to help our child at all. We translated the letter we received from her and compared it to what the translator said. And it was completely different! She said nothing about receiving the money from us. And she was moving to the city with her aunt. The letter from compassion stated that the money was going for her to start breeding sheep, and that she was very happy with this. It was not what she said at all in the letter she wrote to us The letter was completely different from what compassion.com translated into.! I stopped money immediately from being taken out of our account!

We have been sponsoring a child for 8 yrs. The last 2 yrs we decided to sponsor Christian Orphanages instead of Muslim. This is when the whole organisations problems were revealed. It took us 2 yrs to manage to cancel. We were met within every obstacle. Upon further investing we realised how little of our contributions actually reaches the need of the child. Massive marketing budgets (millions), inflated salaries at the top. We were so shocked. Stick without your local Christian orphanage. Fraud is rampant.

Some very dishonourable staff