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AmeriCares is a nonprofit disaster relief and humanitarian aid organization which provides immediate response to emergency medical needs – and supports long-term humanitarian assistance programs – for all people around the world, irrespective of race, creed or political persuasion.
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Who We Are
In times of epic disaster, daily struggle or civil conflict, AmeriCares restores health and saves lives by delivering donated medicines, medical supplies and humanitarian aid to people in need around the world and here at home.
The World Health Organization estimates one-third of the world’s population—nearly 2 billion people - lack access to essential medicines. In addition to a shortage of medicines, health care professionals in poor countries struggle daily with a lack of supplies such as gloves, syringes, gauze and bandages. That’s where AmeriCares comes in. Since our founding in 1982,
AmeriCares has provided more than $10 billion of aid to 164 countries.
To accomplish these results, AmeriCares assembles product donations from the private sector, determines the most urgent needs and solicits the funding to send the aid via airlift or ocean cargo to health and welfare professionals in the indigent locations. The model is time tested, cost effective and experience driven. Because we deliver donated medicines
and medical supplies from our corporate partners to an established and trusted
network of locally based clinics, hospitals, and health care providers around
the world, the impact of the contributions of supporters is multiplied many,
many times over. Historically, for every $1 donated we are able to deliver $25
in humanitarian relief to people in need.
AmeriCares has a longstanding commitment to fiscal
responsibility and has consistently received high rankings from Charity
Navigator for our efficiency. These ratings reflect the fact that 98% of
our overall expenses directly support programs and relief for people in
need – and 2% represent administrative costs.
Our Programs
Global Medical Assistance
With the support of generous corporate and financial donors, AmeriCares largest program, Global Medical Assistance, provides medicines, medical supplies and other relief on an ongoing basis to hospitals, clinics and community health programs in over 40 countries, including the United States. The program helps our health care partners deliver quality care by providing aid to fill critical resource gaps, including essential products that are unavailable or financially inaccessible. We also supply more than 150 health care clinics serving the uninsured and underinsured in over 35 states throughout the United States and provide free prescription medications in all 50 states through our Patient Assistance Program. Read more.
Emergency Response
Our emergency response teams deliver urgently needed relief to survivors of natural and manmade disasters both globally and domestically. They provide medicines, hospital supplies, bottled water and water purification treatments, nutritional supplements and other critically needed aid. Read more.
Medical Outreach Program
The Medical Outreach Program donates medical products to U.S.-based health care professionals who travel overseas as volunteers to provide primary care and surgeries for people in need. For many of the people they treat, it is the first time they see a doctor. Read more.
AmeriCares Free Clinics
AmeriCares Free Clinics provide primary health care to the uninsured in Connecticut. Three clinics in Bridgeport, Norwalk and Danbury offer medical services to thousands of residents every year, thanks to the work of dedicated and committed volunteer doctors, nurses, interpreters and administrative personnel. We also work closely with local hospitals, labs and specialists who donate their services. Read more.
AmeriCares Gift-in-Kind Model
Our gift-in-kind model enables medical supply manufacturers and pharmaceutical companies to donate essential products while we raise the funding necessary to transport the products to a network of partners providing primary health care. This, in turn, empowers health care workers to save lives and restore the health of people who often lack the basic medicines, medical supplies and aid they need to survive.
Partnerships Make It Possible
Partnerships allow us to help more people around the world live longer, healthier lives by providing them with critical medicines and improved health care. We work closely with leading pharmaceutical companies and medical manufacturers, as well as corporate and individual donors and health care providers. Our on-the-ground partners include over 2,000 hospitals, clinics and community health programs in every region of the world, as well as international and local nongovernmental organizations (NGOs) and government ministries. They help us assess the health priorities in their communities so we can deliver the medicines and supplies they need the most.
Maximizing Every Donation
The AmeriCares model is time-tested, cost-effective and experiencedriven; and for donors, the value proposition is powerful. Because we deliver donated
medicines, medical supplies and other humanitarian aid from our corporate
partners to an established and trusted network of locally based clinics,
hospitals and health care providers around the world, we multiply the impact of
the contributions from our supporters many, many times over. Read more about our award-winning efficiency.
Our Distribution Network
AmeriCares operates three warehouses, one each in the U.S., Europe and India. Our warehouses serve as vital hubs for distributing critical aid during emergencies and responding to ongoing needs around the world with greater speed and efficiency.
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Contact Us
88 Hamilton Avenue
Stamford, CT 06902, USA
info@americares.org
Direct: 1-203-658-9500
Toll Free: 1-800-486-HELP (4357)
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Make a Donation
Your gift to AmeriCares will help us provide life-saving aid in times of sudden disasters and medicines and humanitarian relief to people in desperate need here at home and in poor and conflict-ridden countries struggling for daily survival around the world.
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