Samaritan’s Purse will provide cleft lip surgeries for as many as 50 South Sudanese men, women, and children at the Juba Teaching Hospital from November 3–8. A team of 12 doctors and nurses, hailing from the United States, Canada, Kenya, and the United Kingdom, plan to run two operating tables. Some beneficiaries will come from…
Health & Medical Ministries
More Than a Smile
A multinational Samaritan’s Purse medical team provided free-of-charge cleft lip surgery to more than 50 South Sudanese people, most of them children, during the first week of November. Two cleft palates were also repaired—believed to be the first such surgeries ever completed in the country, which achieved independence in 2011. This is the fourth consecutive…
Crisis & Disaster Response
Putting Out the Fires of Ebola in Liberia
As Ebola infections continue to flare up across Liberia, Samaritan’s Purse is deploying small teams of courageous staff to train locals and provide them with the materials they need to stop the spread of the deadly disease in their villages. “We are seeing a decrease in cases in Monrovia, but the number of smaller outbreaks…
Women's Programs
Happy Family
Tin is a beneficiary of a Samaritan’s Purse project in Cambodia that supports healthy families. Editor’s Note: The Strengthening Women and Families Together project works with women to build families that are healthy, among other things. The goal is to break to cycles of domestic violence, oppression, and gender discrimination that are prevalent in Cambodia.…
Health & Medical Ministries
Blessed Are The Desperate
Aida Fajardo has two pencil drawings on her desk. Jessica, a 28-year-old she has been counseling, made them. One drawing shows smiling stick figures of Jessica and Aida standing above a row of mountains and valleys. The mountaintops are circled. “It’s like emotional mountains,” Aida explained. “Sometimes she’s on the top, but sometimes she is…”…
Water, Sanitation & Hygiene
A Water Engineer’s Life
Amanda Patterson is a communications intern for Samaritan’s Purse in Niger. One of the most remarkable things about interning abroad in a place where life is not always easy is being able to watch and learn from the staff. Some of these people have lived in their respective countries for a number of years, committing…
Operation Christmas Child
One In 10 Million
This story was originally posted on Feb. 24. After it was shared by thousands of people online, the mother of the girl in the photo contacted us. Discover how a case of mistaken identity still shows how God orchestrated the journey of a shoebox. About 140 boys and girls excitedly squirmed on their white, plastic…
Children's Ministries
Through Their Eyes
Shanna McClarnon is the Samaritan’s Purse Information and Communications Manager in South Sudan. I remember vividly when the kids arrived on the first day of class. Quiet and timid, their small hands anxiously held the cameras, as most of them had never used one before. The children weren’t exactly sure why they were even there.…
Crisis & Disaster Response
Christ’s Love Shines in the Midst of Conflict
Hundreds of thousands of refugees have fled into western Russia from eastern Ukraine to escape continuing armed conflict there. The city of Rostov, Russia, has alone taken in approximately 100,000 people who left everything behind in their escape. “There’s been an incredible amount of shelling and artillery fire that women, children, men all went through.…
Discipleship, Education & Training
Military Couples Remember 9/11
As the nation commemorated the 14th anniversary of 9/11, a small band of brothers still suffering from the wounds and trauma of the war on terror were gathered together in the Alaskan wilderness to experience God’s healing grace. Along with their spouses, they came to the penultimate week of the fourth season of Operation Heal…
