This month:

• Our Work in New Orleans
• Responding to Hurricane Dolly
• Fighting Against Global Hunger
• Two Field Hospitals Open in China

Voices from the Field: Post-Katrina New Orleans

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The volunteer camp AmeriCares helped build is a series of temporary structures like the one pictured above. CrossRoads will use them to warehouse building materials and for a dining hall and meeting room for volunteers.

Three years after Hurricane Katrina, volunteers from across America are an integral part of the recovery effort, providing labor and bringing hope to those who are still coming to terms with their losses. AmeriCares continues to support volunteer efforts in the Gulf Coast. Recently AmeriCares construction expert Fletcher Watton spent a week in New Orleans setting up a camp for volunteers building homes for Hurricane Katrina survivors.
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AmeriCares Responds to Hurricane Dolly

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Bottles of water arrive in the Gulf Coast to aid residents affected by Hurricane Katrina. A similar delivery arrived in Texas to help in the aftermath of Hurricane Dolly.

Following the torrential rains that Hurricane Dolly dumped on Texas in late July, AmeriCares sent three truckloads of bottled water to food banks where people displaced by the storm were staying in shelters. AmeriCares has been responding to these deadly tropical storms for more than 25 years, providing relief supplies and medical expertise throughout the U.S., Caribbean and Latin American regions.
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AmeriCares Responding to the Global Food Crisis

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This year, AmeriCares is doubling its financial support for Libras de Amor (Pounds of Love). Run by AmeriCares partner Fundacion Salvadorena para la Salud y el Desarrollo Humano (FUSAL), Libras de Amor combats malnutrition in El Salvador. AmeriCares support will allow FUSAL to bring Pounds of Love into 14 communities that are afflicted with extreme poverty and chronic malnutrition rates.

According to the United Nations, the number of hungry people increased by 50 million in the last year—that’s the combined populations of Florida, New York and Illinois. Soaring food prices and fuel costs are sure to raise that number this year. While the global food crisis has gained much media attention in the U.S. over the past few months, the world’s poorest countries have been struggling with food shortages and chronic malnutrition for years. Two countries where AmeriCares is making a difference are El Salvador and Haiti.
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Field Hospitals Making a Difference in China

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Children in Sichuan Province after the earthquake.

“There would be no inpatients if not for the AmeriCares hospital,” a doctor at the Qingchuan facility told AmeriCares relief workers a few weeks ago. The opening of the facility has enabled this doctor and his colleagues to treat between 200-300 inpatients within the hospital’s first month of opening. Residents of China’s Sichuan Province still face many obstacles as they recover from the deadly May 12 earthquake, but worries about health care and medical treatment have receded since AmeriCares opened two field hospitals in the area.
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