Pakistan’s Swat Valley Families to Receive Aid from AmeriCares

A girl holds her mother's hand as they wait for aid. REUTERS/Adrees Latif

AmeriCares is preparing an emergency shipment of medicines and supplies for more than 600,000 people displaced by the recent fighting in the embattled Swat Valley in Pakistan.

As the violence intensifies between the government and Taliban militants, it is estimated that as many as 1.3 million innocent civilians will be forced to flee their homes.

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Swine Flu Epidemic Update

Infection control masks, like these AmeriCares donated to a partner in Mexico, are effective against Swine Flu

AmeriCares is working hard to respond to the 2009 H1N1 Influenza Virus, commonly known as Swine Flu.

AmeriCares has delivered medical aid to our health care partners in Mexico and to clinics that serve the poor and uninsured here at home in the United States. Recent reports show that nearly a third of the world's population could be affected by the outbreak by the fall of 2009.

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Voices from the Field

Ana Deisy and her son Miguel get their health care at AmeriCares Family Clinic in Santiago de Maria, El Salvador.

AmeriCares hopes to make it easier for mothers, and their children, to get the medicines and health care they so desperately need.

Like so many mothers we help around the world and here at home, this is the story of Ana Deisy, the mother of one of our patients at the AmeriCares Family Clinic in El Salvador.

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