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When Hurricane Sandy battered the Northeast on October 29, 2012, every community in its 1,000-mile wide path suffered. High winds, rain, and storm surges destroyed or damaged more than 80,000 residences, and left 8.5 million people in the cold and dark, without power.
AmeriCares responded immediately, dispatching teams of relief workers to hard-hit areas, sending aid shipments, providing funding, and deploying a mobile medical clinic to help communities in desperate need. In the first 10 days, our large-scale disaster response provided emergency supplies that helped more than 70,000 survivors, and awarded $150,000 in funding. Our targeted recovery work will continue as long as needed.
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Response
In the months since Hurricane Sandy devastated the Northeast, AmeriCares provided more than $6 million in aid, benefiting more than 450,000 people, including:
- $3.5 million in medicines and relief supplies to hard-hit communities, including first aid, 12,050 course treatments of medication including insulin and 2,742 doses of vaccine, medical supplies, enough bottled water for 75,000 people, blankets, diapers for 17,000 babies, 3,500 sleeping bags, as well as flashlights, first-aid kits, personal hygiene and relief supplies to support the work of clinics and shelters serving the ill, injured, powerless and displaced.
- $2.5 million in funding to organizations, including a $250,000 grant to Long Beach Medical Center to care for poor and uninsured patients in the hard-hit Long Island community, grants to the World Cares Center for programs to provide emergency warmth and disaster cleanup for survivors in Staten Island and Far Rockaway, grants for mental health counseling for storm-affected children in Staten Island, Brooklyn and New Jersey, a grant and medical aid to help Breezy Point emergency services, and a grant to help elderly and disabled survivors stranded in high-rise buildings in Coney Island.
- Mobile medical clinic: AmeriCares mobile medical clinic parked outside damaged clinics in four New York locations in the Bronx, Rockaway, Queens, and Staten Island allowing the clinics to serve patients for a total of 95 days until power was restored or repairs made.
We also helped residents in hard-hit areas by subsidizing care for the uninsured, providing transportation to health centers, holding health fairs and funding clinics so their doors remained open.
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Recovery
As families continue to struggle in the wake of Hurricane Sandy, AmeriCares will continue our recovery effort as long as needed, focusing on:
- Meeting immediate needs.
- Restoring access to health services.
- Addressing long-term health needs, including mental health counseling to help survivors cope with trauma and loss.
- Helping communities prepare for future disasters.
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Stamford, Conn. – Sept. 10, 2013 – A new training program is teaching pediatricians to identify mental health issues in children affected by Hurricane Sandy. Participants receive instruction in how to recognize the signs and symptoms of post traumatic stress disorder, depression and other mental health issues in young patients.
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Stamford, Conn. – July 2, 2013 – AmeriCares has awarded $200,000 in grants to help elderly, disabled and low-income New Jersey residents recover from Hurricane Sandy.
As the Northeast continues to recover from Hurricane Sandy, Atlantic hurricane season has begun amid forecasts of above average storm activity for 2013. AmeriCares is ready in advance long before a hurricane strikes – so that crucial medicines and relief supplies are in the hands of response partners and survivors as quickly as possible.
AmeriCares Hurricane Sandy relief and recovery team continues working with clinics, shelters, and partners to deliver aid and emergency grants to ease the suffering of families in need throughout the tri-state area.
Stamford, Conn. – May 2, 2013 – Twenty Sandy-damaged homes in Connecticut and New York are slated to get much-needed repairs from AmeriCares Hurricane Sandy Relief Program.
Stamford, Conn. – April 29, 2013 – AmeriCares delivered $4.5 million in grants and donated relief supplies to help more than 400,000 storm victims recover from Hurricane Sandy, according to a new report from the global health and disaster relief organization. The six-month report, published today on americares.org, details the progress of AmeriCares Hurricane Sandy Relief Program in New York, New Jersey and Connecticut.
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