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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Literacy Efforts Help People Read the Bible in South Sudan
Church-based training teaches people to read God's Word—transforming hearts and communities. -
Franklin Graham's Digital Update for January 2025
Read Franklin Graham's January 2025 update. Learn more about our Emergency Field Hospital in Sudan, as well as our work in western North Carolina and eastern Tennessee. -
Healing the Hurting
Samaritan's Purse is partnering with local churches to bring physical relief and spiritual comfort to displaced women and children in Ethiopia. -
Bringing Fresh Water to the Hills of Cambodia
Samaritan’s Purse is supplying schools and homes in western Pailin province with water filters that help prevent disease and improve the quality of life for many people. -
Cattle Bring Hope to Families in Vietnam
Samaritan's Purse livelihood programmes restore families and communities in Vietnam. -
Emergency Field Hospital Opens in War-Torn Sudan
Samaritan's Purse began receiving patients at our new medical facility in the North African nation on Dec. 25, bringing hope and healing to some of the millions displaced by civil war.
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.
