Samaritans Purse

Update on Hmong Refugee Children

You’ll be pleased to hear that Samaritan’s Purse supporters have provided over $40,000 so far to help care for 1,500 Hmong children living in a refugee prison camp in northern Thailand.

One of these children is Chai, a nine year old boy who is an orphan. His father and mother were killed along the Thai border five years ago. Today ‘home’ is a camp in Northern Thailand where he lives behind high fences, razor wire, and armed guards with other Hmong refugees who are prisoners in Northern Thailand.

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Turn on the Tap is a global campaign launched by Samaritan’s Purse to provide access to safe water for communities in Asia and Africa. The following story shows how Samaritans Purse water projects are transforming lives in Cambodia. 

Mey Sen is a weary grandmother with deep wrinkles etched into her dark skin after years of gruelling work as a subsistence rice farmer. She provides for three grandchildren while their parents work in Phnom Penh and return only once a month to visit.  

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Operation Christmas Child

Too many innocent children are caught in poverty and hostile environments, trying to survive while constantly at risk of being exploited. Samaritan’s Purse is there to offer compassion, assistance and protection. 

Operation Christmas Child is often the first step in bringing help and hope to a child in need. Our local churches and partners find these innocent victims and provide long term assistance such as aid, health care, housing, clean water, sanitation and education.

Read Pov’s Operation Christmas Child story.

Education

Education is critical to breaking the cycle of poverty. However, many children in poor countries do not get access to school. In Cambodia alone, 10 percent of children do not attend primary school and only one third continue through secondary school.

The educational projects of Samaritan’s Purse help communities build schools, train teachers and purchase supplies. Educating children builds hope and gives a reason to believe that there can be a different tomorrow.

Read Toul Prasat’s story.

Health, HIV & AIDS

Tragically, an estimated 5 million people in Asia were living with HIV in 2007. Around 380,000 died from AIDS-related illnesses that year, with the same number newly infected. Countless other health issues from maternity deaths to physical disabilities also affect hundreds of thousands of people each year. 

Read about Nikki.

Community Empowerment, Livelihoods and Livestock

Samaritan’s Purse provides Bible-based training for emerging leaders to increase their ability to address problems and create self-sustainable communities. This enables these leaders to run grassroots projects that share God’s love in practical ways such as health and nutrition, education, small business and housing.  One such example is a Women’s Small Business Support program started after the tsunami in Amirthakali, an impoverished Sri Lankan town.

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Water & Sanitation – Turn on the Tap

One child dies every 20 seconds from diseases related to drinking dirty water. Samaritan’s Purse is committed to changing this appalling statistic by improving quality and access to water by providing wells, rainwater harvesting solutions, BioSand Water Filters, health and hygiene programs and training. 

Read about BioSand in Indonesia.