Prince still remembers those long weeks in Liberia’s dry season when the inmates at Monrovia Central Prison would have to wait for almost an hour for the prison well’s hand pump to bring water from deep below. During the rainy season, the well fills and the reservoirs overflow. But in the dry months, they were…
Celebrating Freedom in Christ
Rina knows what it means to endure heartbreak. She is several years into a 20-year prison sentence, which means being separated from her son and family. She used to work as a nurse, traveling from Liberia to other countries to help hurting people. She had saved for years to create a bright future for her…
Restoring Sight in Liberia
With one hand outstretched and the other gripping a walking stick, Morry stumbled forward as a nurse led him to the operating room. Before surgery, Morry offered the same prayer he’s repeated for the last seven years: “God, please make my eyes free again.” Morry was among the 181 patients who recently received surgery during…
Cleft Lip & Palate Surgical Teams
International Women’s Day
Samaritan’s Purse Responds to Ebola Outbreaks in Africa
In December 2013, an 18-month-old boy in a village in Guinea was reported to have Ebola virus disease. One case quickly turned into an outbreak that moved through Guinea and Sierra Leone. The first case in neighboring Liberia appeared in the village of Foya in March 2014. By the summer, ELWA Hospital in Monrovia, Liberia’s…
Cataract Patients Receive New Sight in Liberia
Diana, 55, noticed her failing sight most especially when she was crocheting hats and shirts. She enjoyed using this skill to make clothing, which she’d sold for years to support her children. But the shadows across her eyes had made the detailed work grow more and more difficult. So, when she answered the phone a…
Empowering Rural Villages to Help Mothers and Children
In the town of Gmomaken’s not-too-distant past, it was always their local herbalist that the families turned to with worries over fertility or for remedies to ensure the safe birth of a child. They would seek him out for alarming pregnancy pains and complications. They visited his darkened thatch-roofed hut in the center of town,…












