2025 How to Pack a Shoebox Brochure
Includes step-by-step instructions, a shoebox label, and a postage-paid envelope. Please note that each brochure only contains one label. 1=1 Includes step-by-step instructions, a shoebox label, and a postage-paid donation envelope. Order enough for every student at your school
2021 Build a Shoebox Online Promotional Piece
Spread the word about our contactless packing option that sends shoebox gifts to nations that are hard to reach with the Gospel of Jesus Christ. One side of this promotional piece describes the easy steps of packing shoeboxes online, while the other covers how goal pages can be created for a church or group to…
A Week in the Ward
April Perry, an Advanced Practice Nurse at Duke University Medical Center, just finished a one-week stint working at a Samaritan’s Purse cholera treatment center in Haiti. April has worked in Haiti for over 10 years, promoting public health initiatives in urban slums and rural villages with Luke’s Mission. April also has traveled to Uganda and…
Karanda Mission Hospital, Mt. Darwin, Zimbabwe
Determination and Resilience in Niger
by Brittany Breedlove, the program development officer in Niger, who showed our staff around Guidan Gado for Raise a Village The people of Niger have a unique depth of their character despite a lack of physical means. Their determination and resilience to continue against all odds and circumstances is surprising. For example, Auta, who we…
Changing Lives Through Livestock
by Aaron Thacher, the livestock/agriculture and food security program manager for Samaritan’s Purse Niger Akibbou Abubakar is a father of four who lives in a small rural village along the Niger River. Through Samaritan’s Purse Niger’s Livestock Program, Akibbou’s life has been transformed by the distribution of fishing equipment. “I cannot express all that Samaritan’s…
Typhoon Haiyan: Two Years Later
The Vicious Storm On November 8, 2013, at 4:40 am, Typhoon Haiyan made its first of six landfalls over Samar island in the Eastern Visayas region of the Philippines, with a relentless force of destruction as one of the largest, most powerful Pacific hurricanes on record. The vicious storm battered Samar and Leyte islands. Residents…
Fleeing from Boko Haram
Editor’s Note: Names have been changed throughout this article to protect identities. In the Diffa region of southeastern Niger, there is little sound. Apart from the side-to-side rocking of the moving Land Cruiser and subtle shifting of sand in the wind, the sun beats down on a sparse landscape largely devoid of movement. Motorcycles are…
Slum Community Benefits from Food Security Program
Ruth Santos is the information officer for Samaritan’s Purse in the Philippines. “Even budgeting for salt is a challenge,” said 38-year old Magdalena Gagate, who lives in a slum community in the Philippines. Magdalena’s husband only earns about $70 a month making deliveries for a hardware store. She has six children, and one of them…
