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Louisiana Hurricane Response Photos
Louisiana Hurricane Response Photos These photographs are available for news media outlet use in coverage of Samaritan's Purse-related stories. If your news outlet uses a photograph, please credit: “Courtesy of Samaritan’s Purse.” These photographs are not for commercial use. Details ⋮ Louisiana Hurricane Response Download Details ⋮ Louisiana Hurricane Response Download Details ⋮ Louisiana Hurricane…
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Hurricane Melissa Response Press Kit
Press Releases Fact Sheets & Bios Photos B-roll Hurricane Melissa Response Samaritan’s Purse is responding to Hurricane Melissa in Jamaica and has deployed disaster relief specialists, critical supplies, and aircraft to the island nation. The Category 5 storm is the strongest ever to strike the island, leaving widespread devastation in its wake. Our teams have…
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A Week in a Refugee Camp
By Sandy Kim and Kaitlyn McDonald, two interns who worked in the transit center where Samaritan’s Purse is helping DRC refugees July 26 Sandy Kim It is the end of our first day at the refugee camp. Since our arrival, we have learned more about the Congolese refugee crisis at Bundibugyo in western Uganda and…
Samaritan’s Purse Volunteers Bring Relief in Jesus’ Name to Georgia and the Florida Panhandle
SIGN UP TO VOLUNTEER FOR OUR HURRICANE MICHAEL RESPONSE LATEST Oct. 18, 8:30 a.m. Our volunteers are hard at work in Albany, Georgia, and in the Florida Panhandle where our teams have received more than 1,500 work orders between the two locations. More than 300 volunteers so far have helped respond to the need. Many…
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Press Release: Samaritan’s Purse Airlifts Relief Supplies and Disaster Response Team to Hard-Hit Jamaica
Samaritan’s Purse Airlifts Relief Supplies and Disaster Response Team to Hard-Hit Jamaica BOONE, N.C., Oct. 30, 2025—Less than 48 hours after Hurricane Melissa made landfall in Jamaica as a Category 5 storm, Samaritan’s Purse deployed a Disaster Assistance Response Team (DART) along with more than 38,000 pounds of life-saving relief supplies to the island nation.…
Seeing the Valleys from the Mountaintop
A little over a year after Hurricane Helene devastated western North Carolina and eastern Tennessee, hope is being rebuilt one home at a time. Samaritan’s Purse Chief Operating Officer Edward Graham stood atop the mountain where Vanessa Bowens had played as a child, praying one day she’d live in a home looking down over the…
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Hurricane Beryl Response Press Kit
Media Resources Media Requests Press Releases Fact Sheets B-roll Photos Hurricane Beryl Press Kit Samaritan's Purse is responding to the destruction left behind by Hurricane Beryl and is now operating in Southeast Texas and across three island nations in the Caribbean: Grenada, St. Vincent and the Grenadines, and Jamaica. This is the first Atlantic hurricane…
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Press Release: Franklin Graham Announces Deployment of Emergency Field Hospital to Black River, Jamaica, in Aftermath of Hurricane Melissa
Franklin Graham Announces Deployment of Emergency Field Hospital to Black River, Jamaica, in Aftermath of Hurricane Melissa BOONE, N.C., Nov. 1, 2025—Tomorrow, Samaritan’s Purse will launch its third airlift to Jamaica, scaling up the organization’s ongoing relief efforts to Hurricane Melissa—the largest storm in the country’s history. The 767 cargo plane will carry an Emergency…
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Hurricane Dorian Relief Press Kit
← Media Resources Photos B-roll Press Releases Approved Quotes Fact Sheets Web Banner Ads Media Contact Kaitlyn Lahm (828) 406-0365 klahm@samaritan.org Hurricane Dorian Relief Press Kit Hurricane Dorian hit the Bahamas as a devastating Category 5 storm—one of the most powerful on record. The hurricane left complete destruction in its wake. Samaritan's Purse is providing clean…
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A Labor of Love
By William King, program coordinator for the Egbe Hospital revitalization project in Nigeria I have volunteered on over 25 mission projects. I have met hundreds of volunteers and have been in their shoes. They come in all shapes, ages and vocations. But one thing comes through in all of them, and that is Christ! They…
