Three longtime farmers are busy planting wheat and sunflowers this spring—and it is a dream come true! Ivan*, Serhiy*, and Oleksiy* weren’t sure they would ever work their fields again after Russia invaded, destroying their grain storehouses and leaving behind a hidden maze of landmines. But Samaritan’s Purse repaired their storage facilities so now they…
Providing Clean Water Sources in Haiti
Access to clean drinking water can mean the difference between life and death. Using contaminated water sources for drinking water can cause life-threatening health conditions such as severe diarrhea, typhoid, urinary tract infections, and cholera. In Haiti, the lingering effects of drought and prior earthquake damage to water storage tanks have caused some families to…
Children in Crisis
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…
Rushing Critical Aid to Drought-Stricken Northern Ethiopia
In rural Yakir Kebele, Welday* is among hundreds of villagers who watched their land turn to dust during a drought that has persisted for months in the Kola Tembien woreda of Central Tigray. Each day was a struggle to survive. The wells that had once sustained the community were now completely dry. Crops failed early…
Newsletter January 2026
From Hard Questions to Eternal Hope
On the day of Adeni’s birth, his mother, Ropani, was shocked to see the splayed lip on her newborn son. The technology for detecting such malformations before birth was not available in the maternal child clinic in her small village in the Democratic Republic of the Congo. In many rural Congolese communities, a child born…












