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Latest Stories

Below is a list of latest stories from Samaritan's Purse.

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Thousands Celebrate Operation Christmas Child
Sunday 20th November 2005 marked this year's “National Shoebox Sunday” – a countrywide celebration of the Operation Christmas Child project...
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Life in Mozambique
The following is a glimpse of individuals in villages in the Gaza district of Mozambique where mere survival is a huge challenge ...
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Hurricane Katrina: Responding to disaster
Millions of people were evacuated from their homes this week as Hurricane Katrina slammed into the Gulf Coast . Residents of Louisiana, Mississippi, and Alabama have been hardest hit. Some areas will be inaccessible for weeks. Samaritan's Purse is responding to this disaster by sending four Disaster Relief Units to these devastated areas, starting in Alabama .
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Famine in Niger
Samaritan's Purse is responding to the state of emergency declared by the government of Niger due to general shortage of food in the country. We are responding to the need in Galmi region, covering Galmi , Madaoua , Konni , Malbaza , and Tahoua . In addition we have food experts and logisticians arriving in country this week.
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After the Tsunami on Premier Radio
Premier Radio's Victoria Laurence reports on
Samaritan's Purse's work in Sri Lanka after the Tsunami. Listen to reports on how Samaritan's Purse brought restoration to communities through its shelter, livelihoods and water programmes.
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OPERATION CHRISTMAS CHILD: AS GOOD FOR YOUR CHURCH AS FOR THE CHILDREN YOU HELP
Churches throughout the UK find that joining Operation Christmas Child (OCC) has yielded some surprising benefits – for their members and local ministry, as well as for the children to whom they send the boxes.
Anne Coomes spoke to six churches that participate in Operation Christmas Child (OCC) to find out how they got involved and what it has done for them.
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HIV/AIDS:THE TICKING TIME BOMB OF EASTERN EUROPE
While the HIV/AIDS pandemic in Africa makes world headlines, the threat is just as real - and growing fast - in Eastern Europe and the former Soviet Union.
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Soccer Camp in Ukraine
A Samaritan's Purse team of twenty soccer coaches from England, Wales and Ireland recently completed a successful six-day tour of the Kiev and Chernihiv regions of the Ukraine...
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WILLIAM AND BEATRICE KASAIJA IN UGANDA: AUGUST 2005
William Kasaija decided to return to his native Uganda earlier this year, in order to work as the new Regional Food Programme Officer for Samaritan's Purse in Africa...
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TO UGANDA WITH LOVE
We trace the story of how one lonely adopted girl in Essex ... ended up heading a hospital on a hill just north of Kampala.
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PRESCRIPTION OF HOPE
Terrorists may kill people by the thousand, but HIV/AIDS is killing people by the tens of millions. So Samaritan's Purse has become deeply involved in a range of programmes worldwide designed to halt the spread of this deadly disease.
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DARFUR: SAVING LIVES IN THE DESERT
It's estimated that up to a thousand displaced people are dying every day of starvation, sickness, and neglect in desert camps accross the Darfur region of Sudan. Read how Samaritan's Purse is responding to this crisis, committed to help the people of Darfur regardless of the dangers and difficulties.
>Full story
>Powerpoint Presentation with pictures from Sudan
Mother and child in Darfur
 

 

 
First ever shoe box distribution to Mozambique: February 2005
Samaritan's Purse sent 36,000 shoe boxes to Mozambique this year, and in early February a team from the UK flew out for nine days to distribute just over 3,000 of those boxes personally.
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