FIGHTING HUNGER: Every week, Samaritan’s Purse helps to feed tens of thousands of children all over the world, including these at a school in Bolivia.
To the Ends of the Earth
We are following our Lord’s example when we minister to children. He said, “Let the little children come to Me, and do not hinder them, for the kingdom of heaven belongs to such as these” (Matthew 19:14, NIV). Operation Christmas Child and the Children’s Heart Project are only two of the many ways that Samaritan’s Purse is working around the world every day to bring children to Jesus.
Our medical arm, World Medical Mission, sends surgeons and medical equipment and supplies to missionary hospitals in Afghanistan and Kenya that specialize in helping young people born with clubbed feet, spina bifida, and other disabilities.
Many Africans consider birth defects to be a curse. When a 26-year-old mother named Agnes delivered a baby with a cleft lip, her husband disowned her. Life seemed hopeless, until they found their way to a children’s hospital we support in Kijabe, Kenya. As a surgical team from World Medical Mission mended her baby’s smile, the hospital chaplains led Agnes to give her life to the Lord.
In other parts of Africa, along the southern edge of the Sahara Desert, we operate specialized feeding centers where thousands of malnourished children and babies are fed and treated each month.
Samaritan’s Purse also supports a number of orphanages and children’s homes in India, Haiti, Ethiopia, Thailand, and other impoverished areas of the world, and our teams have built schools in places such as Darfur and Vietnam.
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