There are three main objectives of the Compassion Fund:

1. To give early and timely financial assistance to students whose families are in crisis so as to prevent the crisis from causing them to spiral into poverty or other chronic family problems.

2. To co-ordinate help efforts and to give immediate relief and support to help students and their families to ride over the crisis.

3. To empower teachers, principals and counselors to identify and help students in family crises by having a ready pool of funds instead of having to resort to ad-hoc fund-raising.