Please see a new story on relief sent to the Abacos and another new article on our Emergency Field Hospital in Freeport, Grand Bahama. Please continue regularly visiting samaritanspurse.org for future articles on our Hurricane Dorian response. Our Dorian landing page is also a great resource featuring videos and a slide show. The article below…
Proyecto de Ayuda para Crisis & Desastres
Hurricane Dorian Roundup: Field Hospital Opens, Relief Distributions Ongoing in the Bahamas
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…
Proyecto de Ayuda para Crisis & Desastres
‘Water Is Gold in the Bahamas’
When Hurricane Dorian tore through Freeport, Grand Bahama, in September 2019, a massive storm surge swept seawater inland about two miles and into many of the wells on the island. “The entire water table has been compromised. It’s still quite salty,” said Pastor Keith Russell of First Baptist Church six months after Dorian devastated the…
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DC-8 lleva más ayuda a Puerto Rico
The Samaritan’s Purse DC-8 flew to Puerto Rico from Greensboro, North Carolina, on Monday delivering more than 26 tons of emergency supplies to the island devastated by Hurricane Fiona. Hundreds of thousands of people are still without normal access to power and water more than a week after the storm made landfall. The cargo plane…
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Dios obra en Saipán y en Tinian
Water, shelter, and medicine are among the vital supplies Samaritan’s Purse has provided thousands of families on the distant Pacific islands of Saipan and Tinian over the last two weeks following the year’s most powerful cyclone. As we work in Jesus’ Name, weary islanders are hearing and responding to the Gospel. Watch the video above…
Proyecto de Ayuda para Crisis & Desastres
Los isleños recurren a Dios tras la devastación del tifón
As the storm’s torrent ravaged the tiny island of Saipan, Aega pleaded with God to save her. “I held on to God for 72 hours,” she said. “I was praying that I wouldn’t die here in my living room, and He answered that prayer.” Super Typhoon Sinlaku roared from the north against her hillside neighborhood,…
Proyecto de Ayuda para Crisis & Desastres
Ayuda urgente para el Pacífico Occidental tras el supertifón Sinlaku
UPDATE (April 21): A second flight has departed North Carolina for Saipan with solar lights, generators, jerry cans, blankets, and shelter plastic. Relief supplies from our first airlift have already been distributed to hundreds of families. Our outpatient clinic and mobile medical teams are preparing to support local hospitals and provide care in remote locations.…
Proyecto de Ayuda para Crisis & Desastres
Three Hurricane Relief Bases Set Up; Hundreds of Volunteers Working
THE LATEST (September 24, 11:01 a.m.) Samaritan’s Purse remains at work in areas around New Bern, Jacksonville, and Wilmington where residents are still reeling from the devastation brought by Florence. We praise God our volunteers have already been able to serve many homeowners in Jesus’ Name. We’ve received nearly 2,000 work orders from the three…
