Winning the battle against iron deficiency anemia 

Iron deficiency anemia affects a large percentage of women and if it isn’t treated, it can lead to lots of severe problems. When someone sufferers from iron deficiency anemia, their body doesn’t have enough oxygen and it may present some of the following symptoms: Dizziness, fatigue, shortness of breath when exercising, tachycardia…

One picture is worth a thousand words…

The Afghan student in the photo is a mother of 4 children and has not allowed anything to stop her from her thirst for learning… neither the rain, nor the heatwave, nor the children, nor the many problems she often faces. When she was pregnant with her last child, she started attending the Farsi lessons and biblical studies at our Social & Medical Center “The Good Samaritan” and then throughout the…

Serving the Little Ones

It gives us great joy when we are given the opportunity in difficult times to put a little color in children’s lives and a smile on their faces! It was a cold day when our little patient came to the pediatric clinic of our Social & Medical Center “The Good Samaritan”. Her feet were freezing and she was only wearing sandals. Our staff quickly found her some socks and shoes, which she wore with great enthusiasm…

The secret that tormented Zena

Zena* had no choice, and nowhere to run. She would either obey the smuggler or suffer the consequences. “You are going to follow me now, otherwise I will take away your daughters.” Trembling, she followed the man behind some bushes on the beach.

The ‘little flower’ who escaped from the 70-year-old

Could anyone blame the young Iranian girl, Saim*, for running away from her marriage?
At only seventeen years of age, she felt like “a lamb being led to slaughter” when her father forced her to marry a seventy-year-old man in exchange for money. She felt imprisoned, and when she…

Mehdi felt the love of God in ‘The Good Samaritan’

“The first thing I will do when I arrive in Germany is to search for a church and find Christian friends like you.” With this phrase and with tears in his eyes, Mehdi—a 35-year-old refugee from Afghanistan— bid farewell to Javad, the director of…

How God set Leila free from depression

When 20-year-old Leila from Afganistan arrived in Greece with her two children and her mother, she was wrapped in a black veil of depression. In her suitcases she had packed not only her belongings, but also the bad memories of her ex-husband, who beat her and eventually abandoned her, leaving her to fend for herself.

Zeinap found hope in ‘The Good Samaritan’

When their boat turned over on the Turkish-Greek border, Zeinap realized that she had lost not only her husband and her 2 daughters but also her hope for the future. The only survivors of her family were her and her 8-year-old son, who suffered from Down Syndrome. Mother and son returned to their homeland to bury their loved ones who were so unjustly lost at the…

‘The Good Samaritan’ distributed gifts with love

The “Good Samaritan” team was able to distribute gifts with a lot of love this Christmas, supporting socially vulnerable women of different nationalities with their children in the middle of this festive season.