What We Do
Hundreds of thousands of people die each year from diseases caused by unsafe water. Samaritan’s Purse provides safe water for children, families and communities in the world’s poorest nations with wells, rainwater tanks, BioSand water filters, and training in health and hygiene practices. As a result, families can be healthy, students can learn effectively, and villages can overcome one of their biggest challenges.
Give Clean Water Today
Countless families must make this choice every day. The very thing they need for life—to drink, wash, and cook—also brings terrible sickness or far worse. Many also have no choice but to walk many dangerous miles just to get a single bucket. All that changes when a family gets access to safe water.
“We are so thankful for the water filter; it is as if it was a member of our family because it has given us so much. Thank you, Samaritan’s Purse, for this gift and sharing with us the Good News of Jesus Christ.”
Tan Sambo, recipient of water filter
How We Help
Household Filters
These concrete filters use layers of sand and gravel to remove harmful micro-organisms and pollutants from water gathered in streams, lakes, or ponds. Users take the murky liquid and transform it into clean drinking water.
Hygiene Training
Health and hygiene education is one of the best ways to reduce illness. We conduct workshops that focus on personal hygiene, hand washing with soap, food preparation, household sanitation, and proper waste disposal.
Fresh Water Wells
Samaritan's Purse works with communities to install and rehabilitate hand-dug wells and boreholes. After a project is completed, we offer maintenance training to community members who will assume responsibility for upkeep.
Community Filtration Systems
In emergency settings, unclean water is pumped through this device, which uses several filters and a small amount of chlorine to kill bacteria. One system can purify up to 10,000 gallons per day, enough to provide for the daily needs of 2,500 people.
Give to Clean Water
Your gift for clean water can provide tanks, filters, latrines, hygiene training, and other essential measures to protect water sources and prevent the spread of disease as we seek to meet physical and spiritual needs in the Name of Jesus.
Stories from the field
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Into a War Zone with Shoebox Gifts and Groceries
Operation Christmas Child volunteers demonstrate God’s love to children in need. -
Suffering Families Receive Critical Relief in Grenada
Samaritan's Purse is hard at work in Carriacou and in other Caribbean Islands devastated by Hurricane Beryl. They are reminded that God has not forgotten them after the Storm. -
Third Airlift Carries Teams, Supplies to Jamaica
This third DC-8 flight transported disaster personnel and supplies, hygiene kits and shelter materials. Please continue to pray. -
Second Airlift heads to the Caribbean
This second DC-8 flight to Carriacou Island, Grenada, is transporting a 12-person medical team, a mobile field hospital, and additional relief supplies and personnel. Please continue to pray. -
Providing Emergency Shelter in Eastern Ukraine
Samaritan's Purse partners are tarping roofs and repairing windows for homeowners located deep in the conflict zones. -
Samaritan's Purse Rushing Relief to Grenada
Our DC-8 is enroute to the Southern Caribbean with personnel, a mobile medical team, and tons of relief supplies. Please pray for island communities devastated by the category 5 storm.
Will provide a person with lasting clean water and training in hygiene and sanitation.
Will provide a family with a BioSand water filter, giving them clean water for years.
Will contribute to the cost of installing a protected spring well or constructing a public toilet.
