What Can I Do?

I was introduced to International Samaritan in 2022, through an invitation from my church to go to Honduras and learn about “garbage dump” communities and to help people there break out of poverty. I thought, “Wow! There are 15 million people worldwide in this...

Toledo Love

Toledo, Ohio, is well known for producing Jeeps, manufacturing glass, and for sparking a mostly bloodless war between Michigan and Ohio. What you may not know is that International Samaritan was started by a group of students and faculty from Toledo’s St. John’s...

The Secret To Swimming Well

Something is going on at International Samaritan that reminds me a lot of a guy I saw at our local pool last week. That guy is me. I started swimming laps for the first time in my life a few weeks ago. It’s pretty embarrassing. Older people fly by me, and they keep...

A Path to Peace

One of our Samaritan Scholars in Ethiopia, Baye, grew up with an abusive father. His father’s harsh and unbearable presence inflicted deep wounds on Baye and his mother. Despite summoning the courage to leave and forge their own path, the pain would resurface,...