Yemen has been caught in a civil war for six years. Children are dying of hunger. Famine-like conditions and economic collapse are threatening the entire population while malaria, typhoid, cholera, and COVID-19 continue to claim lives. The situation here is now the world’s worst humanitarian crisis.

Syria has been dragged down by a decade-long civil war in which other nations have been eager to take sides in the fight. People who once owned multiple homes and farmland are now displaced, living in tents. Food, water, and electricity are in short supply, prompting a rise in healthcare concerns. “The vast majority of people who are still here,” said Samaritan's Purse field director for Syria, “are mothers and fathers and young people and children who had nothing to do with this conflict, yet they love their country.”

Iraq is past all-out war, but continues to struggle to rebuild in the wake of ISIS’s reign of terror. Muslims, Yazidis, and Christians all suffered as homes, farms, and other property were destroyed, leaving families with nowhere to sleep and no way to provide for themselves. Remembering what it was like to first see the remnants of his house after ISIS had torched it, one rugged farmer whispered as he wept, “Fifty years of my life were destroyed in that fire.”