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Charitable Partners - Overview
Help the Afghan Children AmeriCares began its partnership with HTAC in 2002 when two airlifts carrying relief materials including medicines, medical supplies, nutritional supplements, equipment, blankets, and other critical supplies were sent directly to Kabul. Currently, AmeriCares provides HTAC with ongoing in-kind medicines and supplies to support the Afghan Health and Development Services, along with non-medical items that assist in HTAC's efforts. AmeriCares partner in El Salvador, Fundación Salvadorena para la Salud y el Desarrollo Humano (FUSAL), was founded in 1986. FUSAL is a non-profit organization that works to improve the quality of life of the Salvadoran people, especially the most vulnerable, by making use of their potential and strengthening their communities. The organization focuses on health, nutrition, human development, education, housing and relief. The collaborative effort between AmeriCares and FUSAL has enabled both organizations to effectively help those suffering. For more than four years, AmeriCares has been committed to providing FUSAL with the medicines and medical supplies they need to help better their communities, delivering aid valued at more than $71.4 million. As malnutrition continues to threaten the lives of children in El Salvador, FUSAL is working to combat the problem within the country. AmeriCares supports Libras de Amor, an integral health and nutritional program implemented by FUSAL to better meet the needs of the people. The goals of the program are to significantly reduce the rate of malnutrition in children under the age of five as well as in expectant and lactating mothers living in El Salvador's rural areas. CRUDEM AmeriCares and HHF first teamed up in 2002 when AmeriCares to help fund their Youth for Healthy Haiti Program, a unique program that combines health education and soccer. AmeriCares continues to support the program and HHF's efforts to improve the lives of more than 200,000 people in the community. AmeriCares provides HHF with basic medicines including antibiotics, analgesics, antifungals, and antivirals, vital hygiene products and nutritional supplements to support their primary health care facilities and programs. Currently, AmeriCares is working to begin providing targeted donations for birthing kits, and medicines and supplies needed for vaginal or C-section deliveries. American Near East Refugee Aid (ANERA) In partnering with ANERA, AmeriCares donations of medicines, medical supplies and other aid have successfully helped save hundreds of thousands of lives in disadvantaged communities. AmeriCares began working with ANERA in Gaza and the West Bank in 1993. Since that time, monthly shipments have supported ANERA's efforts to improve health care in more than 100 hospitals and clinics run by local charitable organizations in rural and urban areas. This joint effort to improve health conditions and help people live longer and healthier lives has reached over 250,000 residents. Sovereign Military Order of Malta (SMOM) For more than a decade, AmeriCares has been working hand-in-hand with our partner in Mexico, the Sovereign Military Order of Malta (SMOM). Nearly 2,900 volunteers distribute crucial aid, donated by AmeriCares, to free clinics, hospitals, children's homes, homes for the elderly and handicapped, as well as to medical missions that reach the outlying rural communities throughout the country. In addition, AmeriCares supports three distinctive pediatric health programs through SMOM in Mexico: Salva un Niño con SIDA, a program dedicated to reducing mother/child HIV/AIDS transmission; Ayudame a Vivir, a program that oversees the health care of underprivileged children who have undergone kidney transplant surgery; and the Rural Nutritional Program that provides nearly 3,000 children with nutritional supplements and vitamins. Aside from the ongoing humanitarian aid AmeriCares regularly donates to our partner, AmeriCares has responded to natural disasters that have devastated the population. In 2005, AmeriCares delivered aid valued at over $2 million after Hurricane Stan swept through the country, leaving thousands homeless and without access to basic health care. Fraternité Notre Dame African American Islamic Institute Christian Appalachian Project |