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…
Celebramos la vida del Dr. Jim Foulkes
When Jim Foulkes was growing up in Lima, Ohio, his mom told him, “If God calls you to be a missionary, don’t stoop to become the president.” Indeed, Dr. Foulkes answered God’s higher call, devoting his career to ministry in Africa, serving for decades with World Medical Mission, and witnessing one revival after another. After…
Samaritan’s Purse Airdrops Food Relief to War-Ravaged Sudan
As violence continues to escalate in populous areas of Sudan, tens of thousands of families have fled for safety to remote areas of the country—many of which are inaccessible by road because of weather conditions and ongoing conflict. For many months, the lack of safe passage has meant that already-suffering families have been cut off…
Agua para las familias desplazadas en Sudán del Sur
Nya, 15, had heard stories that she could only think of as old tales, since they came from grandparents and the other wizened folk in their corner of Mayendit, South Sudan, where they used to live. They recounted the flooding that’d happened decades before. But now Nya was living her own flood story, displaced to…
Newsletter March 2025
Volamos sobre África para Cristo
Samaritan’s Purse pilots and aircraft are bringing aid to underserved communities across Africa. They are vital in supporting our ongoing work in Sudan, South Sudan, Ethiopia, and Liberia, among other locations. Whether they are dropping bags of much needed food, transporting patients from rural areas to our cleft lip and palate clinics, or performing any…
Atención médica para madres desplazadas en el Sudán asolado por la guerra
Recent conflict between warring factions has forced millions of Sudanese mothers and their children to flee for safety. Many have come to Gedaref, in the country’s east. Local medical services were overrun by the influx of newcomers, so Samaritan’s Purse set up an Emergency Field Hospital there from mid-December 2024 to mid-March 2025. Our teams…