Samaritans Purse

“Channa” was 14 when she was sent to Cambodia’s capital city of Phnom Penh to earn extra income for her mother’s medical treatments. Desperate for work, she found a job at a bar.

Channa had always refused lewd offers from male patrons, but when her family continually pressured her to earn more, she thought she had no alternative. For a full year, Channa engaged in commercial sex work and desperately wanted out. Neighbours began looking down on her. And her dreams of a happy future seemed spoiled. “I thought I was an animal, a slave,” she said. (more…)

For most of his adult life, 59-year-old Ly Sreng has struggled to accomplish even the most routine of tasks. Wounded and disabled as a soldier during Pol Pot’s regime, Ly has been forced to rely on a wheelchair for the past three decades. And not only that, he and his family struggle for survival in a poor village in Cambodia – which means their access to clean, safe drinking water has been severely limited.

Ly recently shared with Samaritan’s Purse, “It was very difficult to have access to water sources because they were far away. Besides this, the price to build a well was expensive, so I normally used my wheelchair to collect water from a pond which was 1 kilometer away from my house. (more…)

A new fear gripped thousands of homeless families in Haiti when an evening downpour drenched makeshift tent camps across the Port-au-Prince area. It’s April and the rainy season has begun.

As the rains increase, people living under old sheets and scraps of plastic face a dilemma. They can stay outside and try not to get soaked, or seek shelter in earthquake-damaged homes and buildings that are ready to collapse. Sickness brought on by exposure and the spread of disease are also major concerns. (more…)