Each morning, long before daybreak, Nadia* would travel to the local market to sell tea and coffee to bleary-eyed residents just waking up in her town in southern Sudan. She had to rise quite early so she could finish her business before her school started. Though she’s now a mother of three, she was hungry…
Our Ministry
Hope for South Sudan
StrengtheningSouth Sudan’s Churches South Sudan Projects 013954 $ Give After many years of persecution, churches in South Sudan are thriving and reaching people with the Good News of Jesus Christ. Facebook Twitter email When a South Sudanese congregation found out a struggling widow named Abuk and her four children had been left homeless because of a fire,…
50 Years of Ministry
Standing with South Sudan
Samaritan’s Purse was working in South Sudan long before it became a country. In 1993, we sent a medical team in response to an outbreak of relapsing fever. A few years later, we returned to the area to open a hospital and begin projects in education, vocational training, and agricultural assistance. In the aftermath of…
Crisis & Disaster Response
Hungry Families Rely on Food Distributions in South Sudan
Roda has lived in a refugee camp in South Sudan for eight years and food scarcity is still a burden for this mother of six. No one in Roda’s family is working and her husband left the family about four years ago. She is grateful for the food she receives each month through Samaritan’s Purse…
Discipleship, Education & Training
Churches in South Sudan Trained to Help Their Neighbors
Like millions of other South Sudanese, Abuk Athian Wol, 38, has endured terrible hardship. When she was young, a disease left her right leg permanently disabled, her father died in war, and her mother passed away not long afterward. At age 23, Abuk was forced to marry a 52-year-old man who died shortly after she…
Feeding Programs
Samaritan’s Purse Provides Critical Food Assistance for South Sudanese
Food is scarce during South Sudan’s dry season when the land turns brown, dusty, and desolate. Residents and thousands of refugees become more vulnerable to starvation and sickness. “Dry season proves to be difficult in South Sudan,” said Collins Enabu, Samaritan’s Purse Deputy Country Director of Programs. “When people are unable to plant and harvest…
Bringing Medical Care to Sudan’s Displaced Women and Children
Wrapped head to toe in a loose, floral fabric, Amira takes the hospital bucket from beside her cot and steps outside the pediatric ward to do some washing. The ward is one of eight tents that make up the Samaritan’s Purse Emergency Field Hospital, which has been operating since Christmas Day beside the government hospital…
Animals, Agriculture & Livelihoods
Harvesting Crops from Seeds of Faithfulness
Nyamal* has always understood the value of a seed. Her parents and grandparents were farmers, much like the other families in her South Sudanese community, who passed down knowledge from the generations before them. She knew how to preserve seeds, prepare the land to sow, and care for her crops with an expectant hope for…
Media
Emergency Field Hospital Photos
Emergency Field Hospital 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. Jamaica 2025 At maximum capacity, the Emergency Field Hospital staff can treat more than 200 patients and perform…
Franklin Graham
Newsletter May 2024
Franklin Graham Update | May Franklin Graham Update | May Tornado Reliefin America's Heartland Dear Friend, Waves of killer storms recently tore across the Great Plains, and Samaritan's Purse has been busy in six states cleaning up damage, making emergency repairs, and comforting survivors in the Name of our Lord and Savior, Jesus Christ. Hundreds of homes were destroyed in the Oklahoma towns of…
