Through Children’s Heart Project, Samaritan’s Purse brings lifesaving heart surgery to children from countries that do not have the medical facilities or expertise to perform such complex procedures. Samaritan’s Purse transports the sick child along with a parent or guardian to North America—where they stay with a Christian host family—and then undergo an operation donated by a local hospital.

Samaritan’s Purse is bringing clean water to impoverished families, schools, communities, and refugee camps all across the world. We are providing household water filters; digging wells and water pans/ponds; setting up rainwater storage units; and restoring and rehabilitating water pumps, wells, and boreholes that have been unusable for many years. Our teams are also creating sanitation facilities such as hand-washing stations and latrines that will help people avoid waterborne diseases.

The Samaritan's Purse Emergency Field Hospital opened on March 20 in Cremona, Italy, to care for people sickened by the COVID-19 pandemic. Our 14-tent, 68-bed respiratory care unit is set up in the Cremona Hospital parking lot in response to the hospital’s overflow of coronavirus patients. Our DC-8 aircraft transported the mobile medical facility and a large disaster response team, along with urgently needed medical supplies and equipment, to the pandemic's epicenter in northern Italy.

Samaritan's Purse is helping to meet the overwhelming needs of Venezuelan migrants who are fleeing to Colombia. We're offering relief from multiple locations and providing overnight shelter, hygiene kits, food, and medical care.

Hurricane Dorian hit the Bahamas as a devastating Category 5 storm, damaging and destroying thousands of homes and leaving families without even their most basic needs. Samaritan’s Purse deployed its Emergency Field Hospital and also delivered more than 360 tons of critical relief supplies. Months after the storm, debris removal is still ongoing on the Abaco Islands. Samaritan’s Purse is also repairing homes and churches, and providing long-term relief to families who lost everything.

Samaritan's Purse continues to help meet the long-term physical and spiritual needs of people displaced by ISIS. Our projects include livelihoods programs, setting up child-friendly spaces in the camps, and facilitating the return of Christian families to the Plains of Nineveh by assisting with home and church repairs.

Our Operation Christmas Child project sends gift-filled shoeboxes to children in need around the world to demonstrate God’s love in a tangible way. For many of these children, the shoebox is the first gift they have ever received. Since 1993, Operation Christmas Child has collected and delivered more than 178 million shoebox gifts to children in more than 160 countries and territories.

SAMARITAN’S PURSE STAFF ARE ON THE GROUND WORKING ALONGSIDE PARTNERS TO ASSESS NEEDS AFTER TWO DEADLY EARTHQUAKES AND POWERFUL AFTERSHOCKS KILLED THOUSANDS IN THE REGION. A devastating 7.8-magnitude earthquake struck southern Turkey in the early hours of Feb. 6 followed by a second 7.5-magnitude temblor only hours later. The two quakes, along with at least 120 aftershocks, have caused massive destruction in Turkey and Syria, killing more than 6,000 people and injuring tens of thousands. The d

Samaritan’s purse staff are on the ground working alongside partners to assess needs after two deadly earthquakes and powerful aftershocks killed thousands in the region.

Two Disaster Relief Units—tractor trailers stocked with equipment and supplies—headed to Florida on Thursday morning from North Carolina. “Hurricane Ian is going to impact the lives of millions of people,” said Franklin Graham, president of Samaritan’s Purse. “We are praying for everyone in its path and already mobilizing our team to respond in Jesus’ Name.”

Samaritan's Purse mobilizes and equips thousands of volunteers to provide emergency aid to U.S. victims of wildfires, floods, tornadoes, hurricanes, and other natural disasters. In the aftermath of major storms, we often stay behind to rebuild houses for people with nowhere else to turn for help.

When natural disasters strike anywhere in our country, Samaritan’s Purse is ready to deploy an army of volunteers to serve alongside hurting homeowners and to bring relief and compassion in Jesus’ Name.

As the medical arm of Samaritan's Purse, World Medical Mission places volunteer Christian physicians, dentists, and other medical personnel in mission hospitals and clinics around the world. We also staff a biomedical department and warehouse that provides critically needed medical equipment and supplies to medical mission facilities.