The Compassion Eeperience Visits Muskego, WI AUGUST 26-29

MUSKEGO, WI — August 16, 2016 — Compassion International, a leading
authority on child sponsorship which releases children from poverty globally, will
be bringing its tour, “The Compassion Experience”, to the Muskego area August
26-29. The event will educate visitors about the realities of life in poverty as well
as provide an international experience to visitors who may not ever have the
opportunity to travel abroad to a developing country.
The Compassion Experience
The four-day event will be set-up in the parking lot of St. Paul's Lutheran Church
at S66 W14325 Janesville Road in Muskego from August 26-29. There, visitors
will be invited on a self-guided journey where they will be immersed in the lives
and stories of two children living in Uganda or Bolivia. Each child’s story starts in
hardship but ends in hope.
The experience includes over 2,000 square feet of exhibit space, featuring
replicas of the homes and environments of these two Compassion beneficiaries.
The event is free and family-friendly.
“We built ‘The Compassion Experience’ in order to really bring the developing
world to America,” said Mark Hanlon, Compassion International’s senior vice
president of global marketing and engagement. “When people think of poverty,
they often think of the lack of things, the lack of stuff, the lack of money. Those
are all symptoms of poverty. The real issue of poverty is the lack of hope.
Through our holistic child development program, Compassion stirs hope in
children. And you’ll see that hope come to life at this event."
The Poverty Problem
The tour is highly interactive, using individual iPods and headsets to offer visitors
a sense of what life is like in extremely poverty-stricken areas around the world
where the World Bank estimates that 700 million (9.6 percent of the global
population) live on less than $1.90 a day (USD). In the areas Compassion
serves, nearly one in five children die before the age of five, mostly from
preventable causes, and 124 million children worldwide do not attend school,
according to the UNESCO Institute for Statistics (UIS). Tour-goers will have the
opportunity to “change the story” of children living in poverty by learning more
about the issue, as well as Compassion’s child sponsorship program, which
tackles global poverty one child at a time. Compassion currently serves more
than 1.8 million children in 26 of the world's most impoverished countries.

For more information about “The Compassion Experience,” and to reserve your spot, please visit www.stpaulmuskego.org or call 414-422-0320.