Monthly Archives: October 2011
I Got 10 Beautiful Yaks – I am so Happy
This past July Samaritan’s Purse shared how you could radically change the lives of people trapped in a cycle of unrelenting poverty, and empower them to create a new future for themselves and their families. As you may remember, we shared about various livelihood projects in Mongolia, Cambodia, Thailand, Vietnam, PNG, Solomon Islands and Sri Lanka. And we shared how there was a funding need of $65,000 for these projects to continue uninterrupted. We’re excited to let you know that as at the beginning of October our donors have generously given $33,520 in response to the livelihoods appeal – well …
Operation Christmas Child shoe boxes – not the end of the story!
Samaritan’s Purse Australia and New Zealand is known by many because of our Operation Christmas Child shoe box project. However our love and care for children does not stop with shoe box distributions. Friends like you enable us to have a transformational impact on the lives of thousands of children and their families every year. Families like Sok Phoeun’s. Sok Phoeun is a 35-year-old single dad who takes care of his two children in his home village of Phnom Krom, Cambodia. He’s also responsible for two other children whose parents were forced to leave to find work in Malaysia. This …
Ajay’s Big Day
You could feel the excitement in the air! Visiting an Operation Christmas Child shoe box distribution in Fiji last Christmas, Judy (pictured above), a Samaritan’s Purse Australia volunteer, found herself in the middle of a church filled with hundreds of young children – all eagerly awaiting their own shoe box. It was quite a scene as each child ripped open their box to discover the treasures inside. That is, each child except a little boy named Ajay (pictured above), who sat at the end of one pew with his head down and his hands in his lap. Judy soon learned …
Horn of Africa Crisis Update
Thanks to the generosity of supporters like you, Samaritan’s Purse has been able to supply food, water, and other aid to thousands of hungry families and malnourished children affected by the famine in the Horn of Africa. Millions are impacted by the critical shortage of food and water resulting from the worst drought the area has experienced in decades. “It has never been this bad,” a local resident said. “It has never gone this long without rain. But we don’t even expect rain to come until October. Everyone is very bad off—we can’t even keep our animals alive. The women …