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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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. -
Samaritan's Purse Prepares Response to Hurricane Beryl
Please pray for storm-devastated areas of the windward islands as we prepare to respond in the wake of category 4 Hurricane Beryl. -
Clean Water Restored to Rural Vietnamese Communities
From the southern tip to the northern highlands of Vietnam, lives are being changed in many of the country's most remote areas through Samaritan's Purse water and hygiene projects. -
Reaching the Deaf Community in the Country of Georgia
One Pastor has a vision for getting the good news to this overlooked group.
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.
