How and when did Compassion start?
Compassion began in the heart of one man moved by Korean War orphans in 1952. Reverend Everett Swanson was on a successful preaching tour in South Korea when he encountered the bitter poverty of Korea’s unwanted children. He knew he had to do something. Upon his return to the United States, Everett established a program that allowed caring people to provide food, shelter, education, medical care and Christian training for Korean orphans. That program was, and remains, the foundation and core of Compassion International.
