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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Rushing Relief to the Western Pacific After Super Typhoon Sinlaku
Our 767 aircraft has completed two trips to the Northern Mariana Islands loaded with tonnes of relief. Emergency supplies are being handed out. Our outpatient medical clinic is operational. -
Bringing Food and Medical Care to Families Caught in Sudan's War
Samaritan’s Purse is bringing food and medicine as tens of thousands of displaced families face starvation amid Sudan’s civil war. Please pray. The need is great. -
Thanking God for New Believers in Remote Madagascar
An Operation Christmas Child outreach event in a village known for its spiritual resistance brings a remarkable harvest of souls. -
Third Recent Airlift to Lebanon Delivers More Aid
Samaritan’s Purse transported more than 46 tonnes of urgently needed relief supplies to Beirut this week to serve dislodged families. -
Transforming a Nation One Child at a Time
Operation Christmas Child is sharing Christ’s love for children in Belize. -
Helping Families Displaced by Floods in Colombia
Samaritan's Purse is on the ground in Colombia providing food, clean water, and medicine in Jesus' Name to those displaced by floods in the country's north.
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.
