For over 35 years, Samaritan's Purse has reached out to hurting people in countries around the world. Here in Australia and New Zealand, Samaritan’s Purse has been independently run since 1995, focussing on our immediate Southeast Asian and Pacific neighbours, including Cambodia, Thailand, Vietnam, Papua New Guinea, Fiji and the Solomon Islands as well as to Indigenous Australians in the Kimberleys and Northern Territory.
HVBC supports Operation Christmas Child each year and is the collection point for the Hawkesbury district. This shoe box program sends a message of love, hope and joy to children in our region. However Samaritan's Purse also coordinates emergency relief programs, providing desperately needed assistance to victims of natural disaster, war, disease, and famine. They offer food, water, and temporary shelter and give people a chance to rebuild their lives. They also offer community development programs, building schools, installing wells and water filters, initiating feeding programs, improving sanitation to prevent disease, and offering vocational programs to help people break the cycle of poverty and give them hope for a better tomorrow.
When people ask the teams why they do what they do, the answer is always the same: "We have come to help you in the name of the Lord Jesus Christ.“We love because He first loved us” (1 John 4:19).
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Dig a hole - find water. Most of us have only done it at the beach - we would not need to elsewhere. For 884 million people in the world a hole deep enough could save their life. Visit http://www.turnonthetap.org.au to find out how one bottle full of $2 coins could bring safe water to TWO communities...
