SIGN UP TO VOLUNTEER FOR ONE OF OUR HURRICANE RESPONSES As Hurricane Michael ripped through southern Georgia, Albany State University was forced to postpone their annual homecoming festivities. Classes were cancelled, and students were evacuated. When students did return, the destruction they found in their community was profound. Determined to bring hope and joy back…
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Students and Young Adults Help Georgia Community Recover After Hurricane
Ministerio de Salud y Medicina
Atención médica móvil para los más pobres en Monrovia
Dorithy stood in the heat holding her grandson, Charles, who hadn’t stopped coughing since the fire. She was welcomed inside by our nurses. The grandmother, seeking care for the 1-year-old boy, had lost her house two weeks before. She watched it go up in flames, triggered by faulty electrical wiring. Dorithy and Charles were among…
Animales, agricultura y sustento
Breaking Bread and Bringing Hope
In Niger, the statistical odds are stacked against girls. Consistently ranked at the bottom of the human development index, Niger also has one of the highest birth rates in the world. Facing cultural and economic pressures, parents often allow their daughters to marry at a young age. Nearly three in every four girls will be…
Animales, agricultura y sustento
Meet the People of Guidan Gado
Auta’s skin is dark and taut with valleys of worry and determination etched into her forehead. She is 58, and her husband died three decades ago. She sits on a small rock outside her home in a village in Niger, West Africa, and holds a wiggly granddaughter as she speaks. Around her, she sees a…
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Volunteers Serve Coastal Community Devastated by Flooding
SIGN UP TO VOLUNTEER FOR OUR HURRICANE FLORENCE RESPONSE “That’s our whole neighborhood,” Steve Hubbard said as he scrolled through photos on his phone. The images show his street completely underwater in Leland, North Carolina. While Steve and his wife Deborah and their grown daughter Amanda were in Florida with family—they had evacuated ahead of…
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Colaboramos con las iglesias para ayudar a Jamaica
Pastor Erroll Bennett joyfully filled his van with supplies from Samaritan’s Purse as he described the vast need among suffering people in his community. “Even if people at the moment have money, they could not buy anything, so we are totally dependent on the assistance given by others on the outside,” he said. “All around…
Operation Christmas Child
Empacadores de cajas de regalos pasan de la devastación a la celebración
She peered through a busted window into the church basement and saw that floodwaters from Hurricane Helene had left a muddy mess. The Operation Christmas Child shoebox gift items that First Baptist Church of Damascus, Virginia, had collected during the year were now wet and filthy. Jaz, age 11, saw something that gave her hope—a…
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Franklin Graham Sees Ongoing Recovery Work in the Bahamas
Samaritan’s Purse President Franklin Graham met Jan. 17 with local officials in the Bahamas as well as several families helped by relief efforts in the wake of Hurricane Dorian. In our initial response to Hurricane Dorian, Samaritan’s Purse distributed over 360 metric tons of emergency relief supplies and provided more than 1 million liters of…
Mending Homes and Hearts in Storm-Weary Louisiana
The streets of Lake Charles, Louisiana, were filled with destruction and silence in the 24 hours after Hurricane Laura made landfall. Families who fled the storm were terrified to return home and those who stayed were in a state of shock, their homes ripped apart or ambushed by falling trees. “Following a disaster, you usually…
Proyecto de Ayuda para Crisis & Desastres
Los esfuerzos por ver a Acapulco restaurada
Pastor Eusebio Angelito and his wife, Catalin, nervously waited for the monster storm that was predicted to hit on Oct. 25—another hurricane, but a big one named Otis that was quickly building in strength. The last truly shocking Pacific cyclone to hit the state of Guerrero was Hurricane Pauline in 1997, a Category 4 event.…
