An elderly couple wearily recounted the story of fleeing their home, feeling that they had just escaped with their lives. “We ran from the bombs. The first bombs came on our buildings,” the wife recounted. “We just decided to flee to anywhere else that was safe. Anywhere our eyes could see. Our region was bombed…
Proyecto de Ayuda para Crisis & Desastres
Actualización desde el campo: intervenciones médicas en Ucrania y Moldavia
(March 11) There are several important developments from the field: –Medical equipment and supplies for our Emergency Field Hospital in Lviv, Ukraine, were airlifted via three flights (two aboard our DC-8 cargo jet) from North Carolina to Poland on March 4, 8, and 10. All materials have been unloaded, and most have been transported to…
Proyecto de Ayuda para Crisis & Desastres
Exvicepresidente Pence visita un equipo en la frontera con Ucrania; Hospital Móvil de Emergencias pronto estará listo
Update (March 10): Former Vice President Mike Pence and his wife, Karen, visited with members of our Disaster Assistance Response Team today and then crossed over into Ukraine to meet with soon-to-be-refugees and to hear their stories. He held their hands and provided words of comfort. “I want the Ukrainian people to know that Americans…
Proyecto de Ayuda para Crisis & Desastres
Actualización Ucrania: quinto vuelo de Samaritan’s sale con ayuda; intervención médica en cuatro ubicaciones; comida y otras distribuciones en proceso
UPDATED March 23 A fifth Samaritan’s Purse airlift departed today carrying more than 19 tons of relief, including medical supplies for area hospitals as we work to strengthen the logistics and supply chain for the suffering medical system in Ukraine. • Our doctors and nurses have seen more than 1,000 patients since the beginning of…
Proyecto de Ayuda para Crisis & Desastres
Samaritan’s Purse lleva ayuda a los refugiados de Sudán en Chad
Our DC-8 aircraft left North Carolina on July 26 headed to Chad’s capital, N’Djamena, with urgently needed relief for those who’ve fled fighting in neighboring Sudan. Once our plane lands and is unloaded, transport trucks will then carry the emergency supplies to refugee camps along the country’s rugged, eastern edge. The relief includes nearly 900…
Sanidad y ayuda en el camino
Close to 4 million people have fled Ukraine since the conflict began, with another 6-7 million people internally displaced. Many families are transient within Ukraine—moving from one town to the next searching for safety. They often spend just a few nights in a new location before it too becomes a target of the war and…
Proyecto de Ayuda para Crisis & Desastres
Franklin Graham se reúne con el equipo de Samaritan’s Purse en Ucrania
Franklin Graham, president of Samaritan’s Purse, traveled to Ukraine this past weekend to meet with our teams who have been at work there since the early stages of the conflict. Samaritan’s Purse has around 170 staff members on the ground in the region, including doctors, nurses, lab techs, logisticians, and many others. Inside Ukraine, we…
Proyecto de Ayuda para Crisis & Desastres
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…
Programas de alimentación
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…
Discipulado, educación & entrenamiento
Drama Team Shares the Gospel in South Sudan Refugee Camp
Jumu arrived alone in Ajuong Thok refugee camp. His two brothers were killed during Sudan’s civil war, and his parents refused to travel south—terrified of leaving the only home they’d ever known in the Nuba Mountains. Jumu, now 22, desperately wanted to find Christian fellowship in the South Sudan refugee camp, and he’s now experiencing…
