Headed by Franklin Graham, Samaritan's Purse provides immediate, no-red-tape response to the physical and spiritual needs of individuals in crisis areas of the world. Currently, Samaritan's Purse is distributing some 7 million gift-filled shoe boxes to needy children in more than 95 countries through the organization's project Operation Christmas Child. The Children's Heart Project has brought more than 85 children from war-torn countries to the U.S. to receive free heart surgery and treatments not otherwise available to them. Since 1997, Samaritan's Purse has operated a mission hospital, in war-torn southern Sudan, that serves an estimated 300,000 people in a 120-mile radius and has been bombed five times this year.
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