Interactive Tour Immerses Visitors into Daily Life in Another Country
CAROL STREAM, IL — June 3, 2016 — Tyndale House Publishers is honored to host Compassion International, a leading authority on child sponsorship which releases children from poverty globally, when it brings and its tour, “The Compassion Experience”, to our corporate headquarters in Carol Stream, June 16-20. The event will educate visitors about the realities of life in poverty as well as provide an international experience to those who may never have the opportunity to travel abroad to a developing country.
The Compassion Experience
The five-day event will be set up in the parking lot of Tyndale House Publishers at 351 Executive Drive in Carol Stream from June 16-20. 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 the Dominican Republic and Kenya, respectively. Each child’s story starts in hardship but ends in hope.
The experience includes 1,700 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 or to register to attend “The Compassion Experience”, visit www.CompassionExperience.com , @compassion_exp on Twitter, and www.facebook.com/CompassionExperience on Facebook. All are welcome.
About Compassion International
Compassion International is the world’s leading authority in holistic child development through sponsorship. Compassion revolutionized the fight against global poverty by working exclusively with the Church to develop children out of poverty to become responsible, fulfilled Christian adults. It is the only child sponsorship program to be validated through independent, empirical research. Compassion partners with 7,000 Christian churches in 26 countries to release more than 1.8 million children from poverty in Jesus’ name. Compassion has been awarded the highest rating for financial stewardship and transparency by Charity Navigator, America’s largest charity evaluator. For more information on the ministry, visit compassion.com or follow them on Twitter at @compassion.
About Tyndale House Publishers
Tyndale House Publishers, founded in 1962, is the world’s largest privately held Christian publisher of books, Bibles, and digital media. Tyndale has published many New York Times bestsellers. The largest portion of its profit goes to the nonprofit Tyndale House Foundation, which makes grants to help meet the physical and spiritual needs of people around the world. Tyndale was founded to publish Living Letters, which later comprised part of The Living Bible, a contemporary paraphrase of the Bible that became a global publishing phenomenon. Tyndale now publishes the Holy Bible, New Living Translation (NLT), the translation of choice for millions of people. Each NLT sale benefits the worldwide translation work of Wycliffe Bible Translators.
