Samaritan’s Purse airlifted a 30-bed Emergency Field Hospital and critical medical supplies to King Salmon, Alaska, on June 1 in advance of a possible COVID-19 outbreak. The threat is expected to significantly rise this summer as more than 10,000 fishermen and cannery workers from around the world descend upon the Bristol Bay region. Many of…
Ministerio de Salud y Medicina
World Medical Mission
Follow in the Footsteps of the Great Physician Serve with World Medical Mission Apply to Serve Request More Information World Medical Mission exists to address these needs by sending Christian medical and dental professionals on short-term trips to partnering mission hospitals and clinics around the world. “It's the most rewarding medicine you will have practiced…
Proyecto de Ayuda para Crisis & Desastres
Serving Venezuelan Migrants as They Face the Coronavirus Crisis
Samaritan’s Purse is providing medical care, hot meals, and trafficking prevention education at a migration transition center in Cúcuta, Colombia, for hundreds of Venezuelans deciding to return to their home country. They are returning because they find themselves homeless and jobless in the wake of the COVID-19 health crisis, which has led to the shutdown…
Discipulado, educación & entrenamiento
Military Couples Begin New Chapter in Alaska
Terror, violence, and death weren’t supposed to follow him home. Army Staff Sergeant Josh Abbatoye thought he’d left war on the battlefields of Iraq and Afghanistan. Throughout multiple deployments in a 17-year military career he’d survived eight traumatic brain injuries, five improvised explosive devices (IEDs), and a rocket-propelled grenade that left shrapnel stuck in his…
Media
Press Release COVID-19 Bahamas Response 10-15-2020
Samaritan's Purse Airlifts Emergency Field Hospital to the Bahamas; Adding Critical Covid-19 Capacity as Positive Cases Continue to Rise BOONE, N.C., Oct. 15, 2020—At the request of the Bahamian Prime Minister, Samaritan’s Purse is deploying an Emergency Field Hospital to Nassau after an increase in COVID-19 cases has overwhelmed the local healthcare system. With more…
Animales, agricultura y sustento
Growing Faith and Local Gardens in Northwest Liberia
For the first time in her life, Teter Washington learned the importance of churning up the soil before applying fertilizer, and she’s learned the technique of growing plants in bags filled with water and nutrients. These simple improvements to her farming practices have produced higher quality and higher quantity harvests. And this increase in her…
Proyecto de Ayuda para Crisis & Desastres
‘God Is Helping Me Fight for My Life’
When Adriana regained consciousness, she woke to a frantic husband and son. She recalled her throat swelling in the bathroom and then the terrifying moments just before she passed out. “My body would not relax for me. I went to the bathroom, and my throat started swelling,” Adriana said. “I couldn’t hear, and my son…
Nuestro Ministerio
Children’s Ministry
You Can Help A Child in Need Join with Samaritan’s Purse in helping to meet the critical needs of children around the world in Jesus’ Name. In poverty and in crisis, children often suffer the most. Since Samaritan’s Purse was founded in 1970, we have helped countless suffering children caught in the midst of difficult circumstances,…
Proyecto de Ayuda para Crisis & Desastres
Battling Hunger in Tigray
As hundreds of thousands of people fled to more populated areas of Tigray last fall, there were many stories of suffering and hunger. Thousands of children and nursing and pregnant mothers were increasingly at risk of malnutrition. Some families were reduced to begging for food, and many simply went days or longer without eating. For…
Se abre Hospital Móvil de Emergencias en Haití
On Saturday, Aug. 21, Samaritan’s Purse opened an Emergency Field Hospital in Les Cayes, Haiti. The 36-bed unit is helping fill the gap in the local healthcare system after a 7.2 magnitude earthquake rocked the country Aug. 14. The Samaritan’s Purse field hospital is complete with an operating theatre, pharmacy, laboratory, and three patient wards.…
