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Through Children’s Heart Project, Samaritan’s Purse brings lifesaving heart surgery to children from countries that do not have the medical facilities or expertise to perform such complex procedures. Samaritan’s Purse transports the sick child along with a parent or guardian to North America—where they stay with a Christian host family—and then undergo an operation donated by a local hospital.
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Samaritan’s Purse is bringing clean water to impoverished families, schools, communities, and refugee camps all across the world. We are providing household water filters; digging wells and water pans/ponds; setting up rainwater storage units; and restoring and rehabilitating water pumps, wells, and boreholes that have been unusable for many years. Our teams are also creating sanitation facilities such as hand-washing stations and latrines that will help people avoid waterborne diseases.
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The Samaritan's Purse Emergency Field Hospital opened on March 20 in Cremona, Italy, to care for people sickened by the COVID-19 pandemic. Our 14-tent, 68-bed respiratory care unit is set up in the Cremona Hospital parking lot in response to the hospital’s overflow of coronavirus patients. Our DC-8 aircraft transported the mobile medical facility and a large disaster response team, along with urgently needed medical supplies and equipment, to the pandemic's epicenter in northern Italy.
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We have delivered more than 111 tons of lifesaving relief to the region, including an emergency field hospital, hundreds rolls of shelter tarp, jerry cans, a desalination water treatment unit, solar lights, and hygiene kits. Our doctors, nurses, and other medical personnel began providing critical care July 9 from our field hospital in Cariacou.
We have deployed a Disaster Relief Unit—a tractor-trailer filled with relief equipment and supplies—to Brazoria County, Texas, to help hurting famili
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Samaritan's Purse is helping to meet the overwhelming needs of Venezuelan migrants who are fleeing to Colombia. We're offering relief from multiple locations and providing overnight shelter, hygiene kits, food, and medical care.
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Hurricane Dorian hit the Bahamas as a devastating Category 5 storm, damaging and destroying thousands of homes and leaving families without even their most basic needs. Samaritan’s Purse deployed its Emergency Field Hospital and also delivered more than 360 tons of critical relief supplies. Months after the storm, debris removal is still ongoing on the Abaco Islands. Samaritan’s Purse is also repairing homes and churches, and providing long-term relief to families who lost everything.
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Samaritan's Purse mobilizes staff and equipment and enlists thousands of volunteers to provide emergency aid to victims of tornadoes, hurricanes, wildfires, floods, and other natural disasters in the United States. We often stay behind after our initial response to rebuild or restore houses for needy families.
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Samaritan's Purse continues to help meet the long-term physical and spiritual needs of people displaced by ISIS. Our projects include livelihoods programs, setting up child-friendly spaces in the camps, and facilitating the return of Christian families to the Plains of Nineveh by assisting with home and church repairs.
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Our Operation Christmas Child project sends gift-filled shoeboxes to children in need around the world to demonstrate God’s love in a tangible way. For many of these children, the shoebox is the first gift they have ever received. Since 1993, Operation Christmas Child has collected and delivered more than 178 million shoebox gifts to children in more than 160 countries and territories.
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Our North American Ministries teams are on the ground in Hawaii spearheading the Samaritan’s Purse relief response following deadly wildfires that swept through Maui this week. Billy Graham Rapid Response Team chaplains are also on the island to provide emotional support and spiritual comfort to residents reeling in the wake of so much loss.
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Two Disaster Relief Units—tractor trailers stocked with equipment and supplies—headed to Florida on Thursday morning from North Carolina. “Hurricane Ian is going to impact the lives of millions of people,” said Franklin Graham, president of
Samaritan’s Purse. “We are praying for everyone in its path and already mobilizing our team to respond in Jesus’ Name.”
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Samaritan’s Purse is responding in five locations after Hurricane Helene devastated parts of the Southeast.
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As the medical arm of Samaritan's Purse, World Medical Mission places volunteer Christian physicians, dentists, and other medical personnel in mission hospitals and clinics around the world. We also staff a biomedical department and warehouse that provides critically needed medical equipment and supplies to medical mission facilities.
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