Welcome to Compassion Beyond Borders        

Compassion Beyond Borders funds the education of impoverished girls and women in Latin America, South Asia and East Africa. Educating girls is the single most cost-effective means for achieving human development and overcoming world poverty according to the United Nations, the World Bank and UNICEF.

CBB educates the most disadvantaged and vulnerable people in the world: AIDS and other orphans, indigenous peoples and ethnic minorities, battered women and girls, victims of gender discrimination, the physically handicapped, refugees, religious minorities, landless squatters, Dalits ("untouchables") and other victims of oppression.

CBB partners with local grass-roots organizations that know the needs of their community and how to meet them. CBB's Executive Director visits its projects to ensure their accountability, discover new needs, and coordinate their development.

CBB is cost-effective--its average cost for educating a girl or woman in the developing world is less than $50 a year. CBB's average cost for a girl in university studies is $750 annually.

100% of contributions to Compassion Beyond Borders go to educating girls and women, since staff are volunteers and overhead costs are funded by the Board of Directors.

CBB is a federal 501(c)(3) organization; donations are tax-deductible to the full extent of the law.