AmeriCares to Award $250,000 for Hurricane Ike Recovery

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AmeriCares mobile medical clinic will help serve the local community while health services are being restored.

Many health care facilities sustained severe damage from Hurricane Ike and in response AmeriCares will award recovery grants totaling $250,000 in the impacted areas of Texas. Hospitals, clinics, nursing homes and other organizations will be able to rebuild and repair facilities as well as replace urgently needed materials and equipment.

The grants are just some of the ways AmeriCares is working to restore health services in the aftermath of Hurricane Ike in Houston, Galveston and throughout the Gulf Coast.
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High Fuel Costs Won’t Stop AmeriCares

Photo: Matthew McDermott

AmeriCares airlifts are the fastest way to help people during a disaster.

Record oil prices won’t stand in the way of AmeriCares ability to deliver life-saving relief. Disasters like hurricanes Gustav and Ike, the floods in India and ongoing health care needs continue—and so must our deliveries of critically needed medicines and relief supplies to people all over the globe.

Transportation is one of AmeriCares largest expenses. Our organization spent $2.5 million last year to ship $1 billion in aid to 86 countries, and we know our transportation costs this year will be even greater. More >>

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Rebuilding Homes in the Philippines

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Salvador de la Cruz in front of the shelter where his family has been living since losing their home in the typhoon.

Construction is underway in the Philippines where deadly Typhoon Frank killed hundreds and left thousands homeless in June. AmeriCares awarded a cash grant to the Order of Malta, a local partner organization, to help rebuild homes washed away by the storm.

The grant will be used to purchase building materials and make repairs. The Order of Malta worked with volunteers from local churches to identify families in most need.

The construction is expected to be completed this month.
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Helping to Save Lives. One Life at a Time.

An elderly man was walking along the beach.
He saw that a storm had washed up onto the sand what looked like thousands of starfish, now all dying in the sun. He then saw a little boy picking up starfish, one by one, and gently returning them to the safety of the sea so they would live.

The man said to the boy, “Why are you bothering? Can’t you see there are thousands of starfish dying here? What possible difference can you make?”

The little boy picked up one more of the starfish and
returned it to the sea, and said to the man, “It made a difference to that one.”

Here at AmeriCares we follow that same philosophy; we know we can’t save everyone who needs our help from natural and man-made disasters, but it doesn’t stop us from trying to make a difference, one life at a time. More >>

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