by International Samaritan | Mar 20, 2026 | Weekend Reflections
At the El Buen Samaritano family life center here in Tegucigalpa, Honduras, we now have a soccer court! With that, a simple but powerful question arose: What if we formed a women’s soccer team? The women who brought this idea to life are Samaritan scholars,...
by International Samaritan | Mar 12, 2026 | Weekend Reflections
Just a short walk from where Danny grew up in Ethiopia, there is a place most people would never choose to enter: the Kore dumpsite. If you stand at a distance, it looks like smoke, dust, and piles of everything no one wants. For many, it represents dirt and a...
by International Samaritan | Mar 6, 2026 | Weekend Reflections
Hi, I’m Mihretu. Recently, I finished second at the Lok Sahaita Hope Marathon in Pakistan, competing alongside international athletes. As cameras flashed and national media gathered around me, I couldn’t help but think of how far I had come from a childhood...
by International Samaritan | Feb 19, 2026 | Weekend Reflections
My name is Atwine Elizabeth, an engineering student at Uganda Christian University, and the youngest of three children. I come from a family where resilience was not a choice but a necessity.My late father worked at the Kiteezi dumpsite, collecting plastic bottles...
by International Samaritan | Feb 13, 2026 | Weekend Reflections
My grandmother, Catherine Gill, died 93 years ago this week—one week after giving birth to my dad. She was 23. My grandparents couldn’t afford a doctor, so she gave birth to my dad in their home on the east side of Detroit. The midwife didn’t clean the placenta...
