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After a 7.8 magnitude earthquake shook Ecuador, the DC-8 made its inaugural journey to airlift an Emergency Field Hospital along with key medical staff to Ecuador. In the days following the earthquake, the DC-8 made five trips—continuing to deliver critical supplies.

After a tragic bus accident in northern Tanzania killed 35 people, three children were the sole survivors—left with life-threatening injuries. The Samaritan's Purse DC-8 transported the children to the United States where they received critical medical care.

In the months following Hurricanes Irma and Maria, the DC-8 made 44 round trips from North Carolina to the Caribbean—airlifting more than 1,000 tons of emergency relief supplies to islands including Puerto Rico, St. Martin, and Antigua and Barbuda.

Samaritan's Purse airlifted more than 70 tons of critical relief supplies, including an Emergency Field Hospital, to Mozambique after Cyclone Idai created widespread devastation—killing hundreds, flooding thousands of homes and leaving some 400,000 people displaced. Medical teams treated more than 5,700 patients and disaster response specialists aided thousands of families through the distribution of food, emergency shelter materials, water filtration units and blankets.

As northern Italy quickly became a global epicenter of the COVID-19 pandemic, Samaritan's Purse airlifted more than 38 tons of medical relief supplies, including an Emergency Field Hospital, to Cremona, Italy. In partnership with Cremona Hospital, Samaritan's Purse medical staff treated 280 patients at the 68-bed respiratory care unit.

Samaritan's Purse airlifted more than 120 tons of critical relief supplies on four DC-8 flights to northern Ethiopia after months of internal conflict left millions of families without access to basic necessities. Teams of disaster response specialists distributed the supplies—including supplemental food kits, emergency shelter material, and cooking and hygiene kits—while providing medical care through two mobile medical units.

After a 7.2-magnitude earthquake struck southern Haiti leveling towns and killing more than 2,000 residents, we airlifted Emergency Field Hospitals, water filtration, food, and shelter materials, along with medical and relief teams, to the city of Les Cayes where we provided medical and surgical care along with critical relief to the region.

Over the course of a year, from early 2022 until the winter of 2023, the DC-8 completed more than 40 airlifts to assist the people of war-torn Ukraine. We airlifted Emergency Field Hospitals, medical teams, and relief specialists to assist tens of thousands of patients and provide medical and other relief—such as food, water, and shelter materials—to more than 10 million Ukrainians.

We airlifted nearly 90 tons of supplies to Mexico where Hurricane Otis devastated coastal Guerrero state near the popular resort town of Acapulco. Supplies included food, water filtration systems, roof tarping, cooking supplies, and Spanish language Bibles. We assisted thousands of hurting families and served in Jesus' Name through faithful local church partners.

Samaritan’s Purse opened an Emergency Field Hospital in southeast Sudan on Christmas Day to treat those displaced by armed conflict, including Caesarean sections for expecting mothers, OB/GYN care, and necessary medicine, nutrition, and hydration resources. The hospital, capable of operating 24 hours a day, held up to 36 inpatients at a time and was equipped with a fully-functioning operating room.

Our DC-8 aircraft landed in Myanmar on Saturday, April 5, with an Emergency Field Hospital and disaster assistance response team to establish a multi-tent medical facility in Naypyidaw. Our teams treated injured residents after a deadly 7.7-magnitude earthquake, followed by a 6.4-magnitude aftershock, collapsed hundreds of buildings, leaving thousands of people dead and countless others injured. During multiple airlifts, we transported additional components of the large-scale field hospital, along with water filtration systems, emergency shelter material, flashlights, hygiene kits, and shelter supplies such as tarps and blankets.

On its inaugural flight, the 767 carried more than 290,000 packets of supplementary food for suffering women and children in Gaza, along with blankets, solar lights, and other critical relief items. Since then, the aircraft has completed multiple missions to the Middle East and the Caribbean.

We made multiple relief flights on our DC-8, 757, and 767 aircraft to Jamaica in late October and early November in response to the devastation of Hurricane Melissa--a Category 5 storm that wrecked western portions of the island nation when it made landfall Oct. 28. We delivered an Emergency Field Hospital, shelter materials, water filtration systems, and other relief to serve affected communities. We also deployed scores of disaster assistance response team personnel to serve hurting communities in Jesus' Name.

Immediately after Super Typhoon Sinlaku tore through the Northern Mariana Islands, we sent our 767 aircraft packed with tons of relief supplies and equipment to support recovery efforts. We conducted additional 767 airlifts to the islands as we distributed food and water to thousands of residents and set up mobile medical clinics on the two largest islands: Saipan and Tinian.