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Hancock Co. man heading back to Ukraine for fifth time to deliver more water purifiers [Video]

Joe Hurston is the founder of Air Mobile Ministries, which provides disaster relief in impacted areas. This will be his fifth trip to Ukraine.

HANCOCK COUNTY, Tenn. — A Hancock County man is returning to Ukraine again, delivering ten more water purifiers so people in the country can have reliable access to water despite the war turning buildings into craters.

Joe Hurston founded Air Mobile Ministries in 1978. The nonprofit delivers medical supplies, food, clothing and a special water purification system to areas of the world impacted by disaster and conflict. The upcoming mission will mark Hurston’s fifth trip to Ukraine.

“People have been phenomenal. The Ukrainian people are not only incredibly brave, but they’re very smart, and they recognized the unit and the power of the unit, and how well it works,” he said. “They’ve just been great.”

Each water purifier can give around 1,000 people safe drinking water every day, regardless of where it …

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