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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Breaking Barriers
Our vocational training programs are preparing vulnerable youth in Vietnam to live out their dreams. -
Discipling Children in the Dumps of Cambodia
A girl who once received an Operation Christmas Child shoebox now teaches The Greatest Journey discipleship course to other children in need. -
How A Shoebox Impacts The Heart Of A Child
Fernando who faced a difficult childhood was deeply impacted by an Operation Christmas Child shoebox. Today, his family continues the tradition by packing shoeboxes to share hope with children around the world. -
When Darkness Becomes Light
A Samaritan's Purse cataract mission restores sight and encourages patients toward Jesus Christ in Democratic Republic of the Congo. -
Samaritan's Purse Rushes Aid to Typhoon Survivors in Vietnam
Our teams are on the ground near Hanoi, the nation's capital, distributing essential supplies and equipment after Typhoon Kajiki tore through the region only weeks ago. -
Bones Made Straight and Souls Refreshed
Dozens of men, women, and children in Nigeria receive life-changing surgeries and hear the Gospel–many for the first time–through a Samaritan's Purse orthopaedic surgical team.
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.
