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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Amid Noise and Silence, the Gospel Is Going Forward in Gabon
Operation Christmas Child shoebox gifts and the Samaritan’s Purse follow-up discipleship programme are opening doors in the West African nation among both hearing and Deaf communities. -
Samaritan’s Purse Is Rushing Relief to Earthquake-Devastated Colombia
Our 767 departed on August 13th, carrying many tonnes of relief to western Colombia, where a magnitude 7.4 earthquake left hundreds dead and destroyed more than 1,000 homes. -
Offering Hope to Flood Survivors in Vietnam
Samaritan’s Purse provides families in Lai Chau, Vietnam, with emergency relief after a flash flood devastated their community. -
Greta’s Canal in Cambodia Brings New Life
Samaritan’s Purse partnered with news anchor Greta Van Susteren to create a new water source for a village once known for its human trafficking. Christians now thrive there. -
A Missionary Surgeon Serves Hurting Venezuelans
Missionary physician Dr. Warren Cooper answers the call to earthquake-devastated La Guaira. -
Trusting God in the Face of Cancer and Conflict
A Ukrainian cancer patient sees food deliveries from Samaritan’s Purse as proof that the Lord has not forgotten her.
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.
