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Compassion strives to help children develop in four areas: spiritual; economic; social and physical. There is a focus on helping them learn useful and remunerative skills. At one of the centers we were introduced to a group of girls around 12 years old learning to sew. They were just starting out in the class and the emphasis was on learning to measure. I was singled out as the guinea pig and one of the girls, Jamie (just to my right in the photo), measured me for a pair of pants. She measured around around my hips, waist, knee and lower leg. When she measured my leg top to bottom she commented, “Largo (long)!”