Dorithy stood in the heat holding her grandson, Charles, who hadn’t stopped coughing since the fire. She was welcomed inside by our nurses. The grandmother, seeking care for the 1-year-old boy, had lost her house two weeks before. She watched it go up in flames, triggered by faulty electrical wiring. Dorithy and Charles were among…
Operation Christmas Child
Shoeboxes Open Doors and Hearts for the Gospel in Liberia
For nearly 25 years a road divided the two sides of Nyiela, a community in western Liberia that had separated itself into Muslim and Christian parts of town. The sides didn’t talk much and they didn’t cross over, not even for clean water or medical care—not even during the Ebola crisis. Tribal conflicts added to…
Discipleship, Education & Training
God Brings Peace to a Troubled Family in Liberia
Patrick’s relationship with his younger brother, Moses, became tense in the throes of a domestic dispute. Moses accused Patrick of destroying his marriage and family, and rumors spread. The brothers’ five-year-long conflict divided their entire community of Tienpo Warliken in Liberia as friends and family took sides. As Patrick desperately tried to protect his reputation,…
Animals, Agriculture & Livelihoods
Urban Agriculture Opens Hearts in Liberia
Korpo leans into her work, pulling stubborn weeds while examining, and even doting on, the green beginnings of a bitterball crop—a variety of eggplant that grows and sells well in West Africa. For now the young growth looks a little like a miniature watermelon, but in several weeks Korpo will be celebrating dozens of the…
Our Ministry
MEDIA ALERT: Samaritan’s Purse Doctors, Nurses Train this Week in North Carolina to Fight Ebola (Press Release)
THURSDAY – FRIDAY: Disaster Response Specialists Participate in North Wilkesboro Training in Preparation for Ebola Deployment BOONE, N.C., Jan. 9, 2018 –Dozens of medical personnel from across the country are converging in North Wilkesboro, North Carolina, training to fight the deadly Ebola virus ravaging the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC). Forty medical and nonmedical staff…
Media
Press Release Ebola 1-9-19
Samaritan’s Purse Doctors, Nurses Train this Week in North Carolina to Fight Ebola BOONE, N.C., Jan. 9, 2019 THURSDAY–FRIDAY: Disaster Response Specialists Participate in North Wilkesboro Training in Preparation for Ebola Deployment Dozens of medical personnel from across the country are converging in North Wilkesboro, North Carolina, training to fight the deadly Ebola virus ravaging…
50 Years of Ministry
Surgical Teams Provide Life-Changing Operations
Being born with a cleft lip in South Sudan usually means a lifetime of shame. Many people in the country believe that the facial deformity is the result of a curse and treat those with a cleft lip as outcasts. Samaritans Purse began a cleft lip and palate surgical project in 2011 to send volunteer…
Media
International Projects
International Projects 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. Colombia Samaritan's Purse is providing baby kits packed with prenatal vitamins, nutritional supplements, newborn clothes, diapers, and wipes to…
Women's Programs
Mother’s Day Feature: A New Generation of Hope
It’s typically a long chain of tragic events that leads mothers and their malnourished babies to the pediatric ICU at ELWA Hospital in Monrovia, Liberia. When they arrive, that’s when Dr. Michael Bryant first sees them and hope begins to grow. Dr. Bryant examines the poorly cut umbilical cord on a patient named Favor, who…
Animals, Agriculture & Livelihoods
Growing Faith and Local Gardens in Northwest Liberia
For the first time in her life, Teter Washington learned the importance of churning up the soil before applying fertilizer, and she’s learned the technique of growing plants in bags filled with water and nutrients. These simple improvements to her farming practices have produced higher quality and higher quantity harvests. And this increase in her…
