2025 Mid-Year Report
Beehives Bring Big Benefits
Smoke billows out of the pot in Lorn Siangley’s hands as she seeks to calm her bees. She is working to inspect them after her harvested honey sold out. Siangley and her husband, Pom Poun, both in their early 50s, received five hives from Samaritan’s Purse a year ago. They were trained in beekeeping in…
Frogs and Farms Bring Unexpected Blessings
Trang loves frogs. These four-legged amphibians had always intrigued the south Vietnamese father, but never did he think they’d become his livelihood. Many years ago, Trang attempted to farm frogs out of his backyard with little infrastructure to care for them. The business soon failed when an epidemic swept through his colony. With his original…
Hope’s Story: Spreading the Gospel through Business Training
Hope didn’t need to join the Ladies of Hope savings group in Nabuti, Uganda. She holds a bachelor’s degree in music and early childhood education, and her husband is a successful lawyer and a worship leader at their church. But when Hope learned about the savings group started by Samaritan’s Purse to help women in…
Children in the Pacific Take The Greatest Journey of Their Lives
If Vanua Levu isn’t the end of the Earth, it’s close. Rugged and isolated, the slender island is located 1,100 nautical miles northeast of New Zealand in the South Pacific, just east of the Coral Sea. It’s one of the 330 specks on the map that make up the Fiji archipelago. Ignored by most of…
Reminded of God’s Faithfulness after Helene
Letis Avila lifted her hands to the Lord in prayer as Hurricane Helene bore down on her western North Carolina home last September. Though the storm took a lot from the Salvadoran mother of two, Letis is still praising God today. Soon after the sky cleared and waters receded, two Samaritan’s Purse staff members arrived…
Five Reasons Students Should Volunteer
New Hearts, New Purpose in Mongolia
At first glance, Erdembayar seems like an ordinary 12-year-old boy. He enjoys participating in physical education class at school with his friends as well as riding horses and cooking Korean food, fried rice, and cakes. But up until three years ago, he didn’t have energy for any of these things. For years previously, Erdembayar had…