Clean water is essential to good health, as it significantly reduces waterborne illnesses and contributes to the overall health of families. Yet, for many communities throughout the world, clean water has never been easily accessible. Through our Water, Sanitation, and Hygiene (WASH) project, Samaritan’s Purse is providing sustainable access to clean water for communities, homes,…
Women's Programs
A Very Present Help in Trouble
When Marie* fled her village with her five children, there was no time for the 34-year-old widow to explain to her young ones why they had to leave their home so quickly. Violence and insecurity have rolled like a storm through eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) in recent years, and an estimated 1.7…
Health & Medical Ministries
Shining Jesus’ Light
Editorial note: Arwen Mallay, 14, went to be with the Lord on Feb. 8, 2022, after a brave but lengthy battle with stage 4 neuroblastoma. She is the oldest child of Dr. Seth and Rebecca Mallay. Her namesake in J.R.R.Tolkien’s The Lord of the Rings said, “Dark is the Shadow, and yet my heart rejoices,”…
Crisis & Disaster Response
Their Faith Endures in Sickness and in Health
In nearly half a century of marriage, Wanda and Arnold never expected to celebrate their 49th anniversary in a tent hospital just minutes away from their home in Lenoir, North Carolina. Shortly after Christmas they began displaying severe symptoms, and they were diagnosed with the disease they’d feared for most of the year—COVID-19. Their symptoms…
Health & Medical Ministries
Nine Children Take Special Flight Home to Mongolia After Life-Saving Heart Surgeries
Nine mothers, along with their nine children, boarded the Samaritan’s Purse DC-8 aircraft this morning in Greensboro, North Carolina, happy to be heading home to Mongolia after spending the last several months in North America. They came as part of our Children’s Heart Project to correct congenital heart defects in their little ones. Most came…
Crisis & Disaster Response
Central Park Hospital Stands Strong in Battle Against COVID-19
Roberto sat in the patient ward of our Emergency Field Hospital in Central Park and thanked our medical team for helping him in his fight against coronavirus. Looking around him, he said, “Honestly, truth to God, I have no clue where I would be if I weren’t here. I think I would’ve probably given up.”…
Operation Christmas Child
Volunteer at a Drop-off Location
Volunteer at a Drop-off Location National Collection Week Nov. 18–25, 2024 At nearly 5,000 locations across the nation, volunteers will welcome and pray with people who drop off Operation Christmas Child shoeboxes. Other volunteers will fill cartons and load trucks with the millions of shoeboxes we prayerfully anticipate receiving. Approximately 80,000 people will serve in these…
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She Never Knew There Was This Much Love
When Hurricane Ian slammed into southwest Florida as a Category 4 storm on September 28, it battered the Gulf Coast town of Fort Myers with 155-mph winds, catastrophic rainfall, and an epic surge of water. Vivian chose to ride out the storm with her 16-year-old daughter believing that, no matter how horrific the hurricane was,…
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