Welcome to the website for the Compassion Fund, a joint initiative by Mainly I Love Kids (MILK) Fund and Students Care Service (SCS).

The Compassion Fund is a crisis response fund set up for needy students from low-income families in crisis as a result of the death of a breadwinner, a sudden illness or accident in the family. It aims to give early and timely assistance to PREVENT the students’ families from spiralling into poverty or developing other chronic family problems. It provides immediate assistance at the point of need to allow the family, time during the interim, to develop longer term solutions. It is the intent of the Compassion Fund to complement and not replace existing assistance schemes.

The Compassion Fund is also about "Students helping Students". The funds are raised through MILK's annual nationwide campaign Share-A-Meal. The funds raised by a participating school through the Share-A-Meal, will be available for use to help their own students in crisis. MILK undertakes to match this amount for the current year. If in that year, a school does not require the funds, the money raised will be carried forward to the following year for should a need arise in the future (for more details refer to page Implementation).