Update for Sept. 23: Samaritan’s Purse is responding in Puerto Rico where Hurricane Fiona hit Sept. 17-18 as a Category 1 storm, tearing through the southern and western parts of the island. We airlifted over 16 tons of emergency relief supplies to Puerto Rico on Thursday, Sept. 22. Materials included 2,200 shelter tarps; two community…
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Many Hands Lift the Burden for Residents Recovering from Hurricane Florence
SIGN UP TO VOLUNTEER FOR OUR HURRICANE FLORENCE RESPONSE Billy Connelly has lived in New Bern, on the North Carolina coast, for the past 16 years and has weathered several hurricanes from his home. But Florence was different. Though the storm came ashore as only a Category 1 hurricane—its winds reduced to 90 miles per…
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Hurricane Dorian Roundup: Field Hospital Opens, Relief Distributions Ongoing in the Bahamas
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…
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Hurricane Relief Updates
Help Provide Hurricane Relief Samaritan’s Purse Helping Homeowners Rebuild After Devastating 2018 Hurricanes Share Tweet Pin Emaily Subscribe Samaritan's Purse has volunteer teams working in the Carolinas to help homeowners rebuild and repair homes severely damaged by Hurricane Florence. Disaster relief work continues in the Florida Panhandle where Hurricane Michael wiped out whole neighborhoods and…
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‘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 Brings More Relief to 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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More Aid Flows into Vietnam
Navigating flooded neighborhood streets aboard rafts, Samaritan’s Purse teams distributed critical supplies to families left stranded by Typhoon Matmo’s destruction in the far north of Vietnam. The typhoon, another in a series of tropical cyclones to strike the Southeast Asian country this year, flooded already inundated regions—triggering mass power outages and raging floods that tore…
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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…
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Hurricane Florence Relief Updates
Help After Hurricane Florence Samaritan’s Purse Responding to Serve Homeowners Devastated by the Storm Share Tweet Pin Emaily Subscribe Samaritan's Purse North American Ministries has three relief teams working in eastern North Carolina to help homeowners recover from terrible flooding caused by Florence's record-breaking downpours. Sign Up to Volunteer Our staff, along with disaster relief…
