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History

Compassion Australia was started by Laurie and Olive McCowan in 1977, based from their Newcastle home. The following year the company, Compassion Limited of Australia, is officially registered. Compassion was one of the first non-government agencies to respond to the Rwandan genocide in 1994. $1 million was raised for relief support for the widows and orphans left shocked, maimed and grieving by the civil war. In 2001, Laurie McCowan, Compassion Australia’s founding CEO retires having grown Compassion to 23,500 children, with an annual income of over $11 million. Paul O’Rourke, Compassion's former chief operating officer, succeeds Laurie. Newcastle CBD Newcastle is the seventh largest and the second oldest city in Australia [1] and the second largest in the state of New South Wales. ... Rwandan Genocide was the 1994 mass extermination of hundreds of thousands of ethnic Tutsis and moderate Hutu sympathizers in Rwanda and was the largest atrocity during the Rwandan Civil War. ...

Today, 35,000 children are helped by Compassion Australia. Compassion Australia is part of a worldwide network of people helping children. In partnership with Compassion USA, Canada, The Netherlands, France, Switzerland, New Zealand, Italy, South Korea and the United Kingdom, over 500,000 children are helped by Compassion programs. Compassion Australia has grown from a staff of two to a network of 43 paid staff members Australia wide, plus hundreds of dedicated advocates and prayer partners.

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