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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A Willing Heart
A shared vocation and a desire to serve prompt a mother-daughter team to experience powerful God moments at a mission hospital in Rwanda. -
Relief Supplies Airlifted to Lebanon
Samaritan’s Purse 767 aircraft is returning from the Middle East after delivering critically needed items to those displaced by war. -
Restoring Broken Bones
Samaritan's Purse is bringing healing and hope through orthopaedic care in Nigeria. -
Offering Warmth as Winter Lingers in Ukraine
Samaritan’s Purse warming centres, set up near churches in Ukraine’s capital, are providing vulnerable people with respite from freezing temperatures, as well as spiritual encouragement. -
Samaritan’s Purse Providing Urgently Needed Relief in Lebanon
We are working alongside partnering churches to bring aid to Lebanese families who’ve evacuated cities and villages during the current Middle East conflict. Please pray. -
Serving Hungry and Heartbroken Families in Jesus’ Name
Samaritan's Purse is providing life-saving nutrition and the Word of God to those in need through a health and nutrition programme in the Democratic Republic of the Congo.
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.
