Crisis & Disaster Response
Hungering for More
Five million Venezuelans have fled their own country since 2015. Nearly 2 million have entered Colombia. Scroll for More Samaritan’s Purse is there to provide food and shelter for those who’ve left everything behind. Hungering for More: Helping Venezuelan Migrants in Colombia Colombia Relief 014041 $ Give Hope Desperate need drives this historic exodus. Many of the migrants are…
Health & Medical Ministries
Where Care Meets Compassion
Mothers arrive at the parked mobile medical unit in Colombia exhausted and in desperation. They look up and see a cross with the words “Helping in Jesus’ Name” stamped beneath it. Some have made the grueling and dangerous journey from Venezuela to escape the ongoing economic and political crisis that’s raged in the bordering nation…
Our Ministry
Newsletter August 2026
Franklin Graham Update | August Caring for Survivors in a Shaken Venezuela Dear Friend, Back-to-back earthquakes rocked northern Venezuela on June 24, with the second quake recorded as the strongest to hit the country in over a century. Already strained hospitals were damaged, roads were split wide open, and hundreds of buildings collapsed. More than 5,000 people are confirmed…
Crisis & Disaster Response
‘The Heavens Were Opened’
Atop a rocky, clay-dirt hill on the outskirts of Cúcuta, Colombia, you can cast your gaze across an invisible border and see beyond the river to the towns of San Antonio and Ureña in Venezuela. Walk down the main road from this humble peak and hang a left. Descend an unreasonably steep but paved slope…
Crisis & Disaster Response
Warrior Mothers Grateful for Help in Colombia
In Colombia, Samaritan’s Purse is helping hundreds of mothers each month as we run a medical clinic, a food distribution program, and shelters for those on the move. Most of the women we help are Venezuelan migrants. Though their circumstances may be trying and painful, these women are undaunted, attempting to provide for their children…
Crisis & Disaster Response
Finding a Peace Beyond Explanation
Sofia first fled Venezuela four years ago as a teenager, grieving the death of her mother and hoping to find a better future in Bucaramanga, Colombia. “I used to serve in a church in my country,” she said, “but the death of my mom made me abandon and drift away from God.” Life in Colombia…
Crisis & Disaster Response
Caring for Mothers in Crisis in Colombia
Fear melts into relief as weary mothers trickle into the Samaritan’s Purse maternal clinics in Colombia. They’ve traveled over rivers, through jungles, and across dangerous borders for help and support unavailable in their Venezuelan hometowns. A decade-long economic crisis has crippled the healthcare system there and made access to basic necessities, such as food and…
Crisis & Disaster Response
Helping Families Displaced by Floods in Colombia
Severe historic flooding has displaced tens of thousands of families across Colombia’s Córdoba Province where a month’s worth of rain fell in 14 hours during the country’s dry season. Homes and businesses were destroyed. Large swaths of valuable farmland were under water for days at a critical time of year for area agriculture. Families fled…
Discipleship, Education & Training
Starting Over
There was a time when Natalia was studying hard to fulfill her dream of becoming a nurse. But she had to quit school and devote all her time to working when the economy in Venezuela began to collapse. Families faced dire food shortages, power blackouts, and a failing national healthcare system. Eventually, she made the…
Crisis & Disaster Response
To Walk in Their Shoes
Adriana knew she had to leave Venezuela when one of her sons was so weak from going without food that he didn’t have the energy to get out of bed. He was so pale and motionless that she thought he might be dead. Then, he blinked but stared ahead with a glazed expression that sent…
