Compassion Corps Grantees

All of our Compassion Corps grant recipients

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Past grantees

Mirjam Luthe & Dr. Susan Gitau

2024
Location: Rwanda & Kenya
Community Served: Kenyan and Rwandan mental health participants and social workers working with vulnerable individuals and communities, and in addition a sensitizing approach to teen mothers. two teachers

Chanda Dharap & Christine Ferry

2024
Location: Santa Clara, California, USA
Community Served: Women inmates at Elmwood Facility, Santa Clara County Jail

Neha Bhatia

2024
Location: New Delhi, India
Community Served: Government school educators in rural and tribal India and low-income youth across the country.

Pooja Singh

2024
Location: Patna, India
Community Served: Educators and the trainers who develop them in India’s school system.

Rodrigo Ruschel, Eduardo dos Santos, Valentin Conde

2024
Location: Campinas, Brazil

Alexandre Octaviano Souza

2024
Location: Teresópolis, Brazil
Community Served: Vulnerable urban communities in Rio

Natalia Sarro

2024
Location: Buenos Aires, Argentina.
Community Served: Women in healthcare suffering from stress and Burnout.

Barbara Davis

2024
Location: Decatur Ga
Community Served: Local government employees experiencing frustration

Timothy Pedigo

2024
Location: Matteson, Illinois (near chicago)
Community Served: Low income black and brown. Low income Black and LatinaX (attend university). Over 12 years teaching. I have been teaching this population as an associate professor in psychology for over 12 years

Matias Rodriguez

2022
Location: Argentina
Community Served: Adults with autism

Patricia Kalfaian

2022
Location: Buenos Aires, Argentina
Community Served: Staff at Hospice San Camilo

Yamel Athie Guerra

2022
Location: Tapachula, Chiapas
Community Served: Refugees at the Mexican Border, Mexico

Belen Gonzalez

2022
Location: Palma de Mallorca

Cristiano Ramalho

2022
Location: Para, Brazil
Community Served: Front line health workers in remote village in Brazil

Sara Schairer

2022
Location: San Diego, California, USA
Community Served: Sara led the eight-week course Compassion Cultivation Training® for the inmates at San Diego County’s women’s jail.

Nitesh Batra

2022
Location: Bengaluru, India
Community Served: Dream a Dream Foundation providing CCT for staff who serve the needy and alt-risk youth in India.

Miguel Riutort

2022
Location: Palma de Mallorca
Community Served: Homeless men and women living temporarily in residential centers of this Association.

Flávia C Kolchraiber

2022
Location: Sao Paulo, Brazil
Community Served: Families dealing with extreme poverty in Parelheiros, on the outskirts of São Paulo.

Dent Gitchel

2022
Location: Little Rock, Arizona, USA

Carlos Herradon Virseda

2022
Location: Madrid, Spain
Community Served: Prison communities benefiting from meditation and compassion programs

Claudia Bernales

2022
Location: Portland, Oregon, USA

Adam Burn

2022
Location: Portland, Oregon, USA
Community Served: Offering compassion training to staff and family members serving the mentally ill at NAMI (National Association of Mental Illness)

Silvia Fernandez Campos

2021
Location: Spain
Community Served: Staff at Proyecto Esperanzo, working with women who are victims of human trafficking

Sara Schaier

2021
Location: USA
Community Served: Inmates of women’s prison

María Belen Gonzalez Gragera

2021
Location: Spain
Community Served: Association of caregivers of chronic patients, Mallorca

Lineth Jezek

2021
Location: California
Community Served: For staff and participants of the Bill Wilson Center offering services to address poverty

Lakiba Pittman

2021
Location: USA
Community Served: BIPOC, LifeMoves, working with homeless individuals at ten shelters on the Penninsula

Jude Wolf

2021
Location: USA
Community Served: Teachers in training who are suffering extreme burnout after a year of distance learning.

Dent Gitchel

2021
Location: USA
Community Served: Front line advocacy workers, social policy and clergy

Cristina Castillo

2021
Location: Spain
Community Served: Homeless center in Seville city

Carlos Herradon Vírseda

2021
Location: Spain
Community Served: Imprisoned women in Madrid and Segovia

Burrell Poe

2021
Location: USA
Community Served: Gang-involved men and women

Anne Walter

2021
Location: USA
Community Served: Parents in early recovery from addiction with children under five years old

Angela Ortega

2021
Location: Spain
Community Served: PROYECTO Hombre, which is a foundation for the rehabilitation of people in situations of drug addiction and other dependencies

Merlene Nieuwoudt

2021
Location: South Africa
Community Served: Low Income Informal settlement community from Joe Slovo Park, Cape Town

Gabriela Saldaña

2021
Location: Mexico
Community Served: Migrant women in the United States from Latin America

Amy Ang

2021
Location: Malaysia
Community Served: Teachers at refugee school

Olga Restrepo Botero

2020
Location: Colombia
Community Served: Women Venezuelan immigrants who are displaced from nearby rural areas and victims of violence

Soledad Cano

2020
Location: Chile
Community Served: Professionals working in community mental health clinics

Jose Alberto Fonseca Roa

2020
Location: Mexico
Community Served: People living with disabilities, rare and/or chronic degenerative diseases, and those who have experienced sexual violence

Kristy Banks

2020
Location: USA
Community Served: Parents of students with special needs

Isabel Centeno

2020
Location: Mexico
Community Served: Breast cancer patients (vulnerable diagnosed women)

Flávia C Kolchraiber

2020
Location: Brazil
Community Served: Pregnant women assisted by the Center of Excellence in Early Childhood of Parelheiros - São Paulo

Enrique Luis Nicolas Cimino

2020
Location: Argentina
Community Served: Health and Sanitary personnel of CEMAR (Public Medical Center for Specialty Care)

Catalina Rodriguez y Malva Uribe

2020
Location: Chile and Colombia
Community Served: School teachers in Colombia and Chile

Nuria Bustamente

2020
Location: Spain
Community Served: Alcoholics in detox program

Maria Laura Cuencio Rodriguez

2020
Location: Argentina
Community Served: Inmates of prison 41 in Buenos Aires

Laura Ferrandiz

2020
Location: Spain
Community Served: People working to support the integration of refugees in Madrid

Jose Luis Cuevas

2020
Location: Chile
Community Served: Professionals in education and foundations/NGOs for young people in vulnerable sectors

Jason Mills

2020
Location: Australia
Community Served: Parents of terminally ill children receiving hospice care

Elsa Nassar

2020
Location: Mexico
Community Served: Women in prison

Claudia Jorquera Bernales

2020
Location: Chile
Community Served: Clinical staff supporting vulnerable, judicialized children in Chile

Ana Maria Costa

2020
Location: Brazil
Community Served: Women victims of domestic violence (physical, sexual and psychological)

Luis Simarro

2020
Location: Madrid, Spain
Community Served: Parents of people with autism and intellectual disabilities

Lara Naughton

2017
Location: Louisiana, USA
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