Samaritan’s Purse is on the ground in Butte and Tehama counties in the north Central Valley of California—a region with a long history of catastrophic fires—where wildfires consumed nearly 450,000 acres of land and destroyed over 250 homes since igniting July 24. Now fully contained, the Park Fire was the fourth largest in the state’s…
Proyecto de Ayuda para Crisis & Desastres
Samaritan’s Purse Starts Five-Site Response to Hurricane Helene
For the latest information, please go to our Hurricane Helene overview page. — Samaritan’s Purse is responding in five locations across four states after Hurricane Helene devastated parts of the Southeast. Helene tore through western North Carolina, dumping extreme rainfall—more than 2 feet in some areas—and causing terrible flash flooding. Some parts of the region…
Proyectos de construcción
Nuevas viviendas para los sobrevivientes de la tormenta en Kentucky
While Hurricane Helene was bearing down on the Southeast, dozens of families in Kentucky were moving on from the disasters that they survived over the past three years. On Thursday, Samaritan’s Purse completed construction in New Hope Acres, a 60-acre subdivision in the town of Mayfield, Kentucky, which was devastated by a tornado just before…
Operation Christmas Child
El registro para voluntarios en los centros de procesamiento ¡ya comenzó!
Thank you for your interest in serving at an Operation Christmas Child Processing Center. New registration dates for all processing centers have been released. All registration begins at 8 a.m. local time according to the respective processing center site. Public Registration Begins: Oct. 22: Baltimore area, Maryland; Dallas/Ft. Worth area, Texas Oct. 23: Atlanta area,…
Media
Hurricane Helene Response Press Kit
Press Releases Fact Sheets & Bios Photos B-roll Hurricane Helene Response Samaritan’s Purse continues to help families recover from Hurricane Helene across western North Carolina and eastern Tennessee in Jesus’ Name. Volunteer teams and staff are actively working to repair and replace hundreds of homes that were damaged or destroyed—providing safe, permanent housing solutions as…
Proyecto de Ayuda para Crisis & Desastres
Información útil para voluntarios (Base de Asheville)
Is God calling you to help storm victims in and around Asheville, North Carolina? Samaritan’s Purse is working there, and we need an army of volunteers. Because of damage from Helene, many of the routes into the mountains of western North Carolina are closed. Our base in Asheville (Buncombe County) is at the Billy Graham…
Proyecto de Ayuda para Crisis & Desastres
Voluntarios ayudan a aliviar la pesada carga de una pareja afectada por el huracán
Justin and Amy Parlier had been awake nearly the entire night because of the rain and storms from Hurricane Helene that hit the Blue Ridge Mountains of North Carolina. They tried to get some sleep early Friday morning but received a call from Amy’s son that a tree had fallen and destroyed one of their…
Proyecto de Ayuda para Crisis & Desastres
Sistemas de filtración de agua en el área de Asheville
Samaritan’s Purse is once again expanding relief efforts in western North Carolina with the deployment of community water filtration systems to the town of Swannanoa and other hard-hit areas. Designed by a Samaritan’s Purse team of engineers, each water system can provide up to 50,000 liters of clean water daily—enough for 10,000 people. These units…
Proyecto de Ayuda para Crisis & Desastres
Una ola naranja de ayuda llega a Swannanoa
Steve struggled to keep his pickup truck driving straight on a road he couldn’t see. When the evacuation alert had sounded just minutes earlier, he had woken his 15-year-old son Aiden, and the pair had dashed out of their house. Now they were fighting to find safety as the flooding caused by Hurricane Helene swallowed…
Proyecto de Ayuda para Crisis & Desastres
Conocer el gozo en Jesús después de la tormenta
Winds roared through Scott’s quiet neighborhood in the heart of Valdosta, Georgia, as Hurricane Helene pushed north past Florida and into the Peach State. In the dark night sky, the towering pines overhead crashed down onto his house, bursting through the ceiling as he and his wife, Terri, huddled in the bathroom. “If you look…
