Emergency Response and Disaster Relief

HAITI EMERGENCY RESPONSE

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Disaster Relief and Emergency Response

Everyday, AmeriCares is prepared to respond to men, women and children in sudden crisis. Disaster relief and emergency medical supplies are strategically stocked to help in the world's danger zones - places where hurricanes, earthquakes, floods and deadly disease outbreaks are most likely to strike. Our ongoing medical aid also strengthens our global capacity to deliver lifesaving medicines and medical supplies in times of great need. 

When disasters strike, health care providers struggle to cope with a surge in demand as survivors seek care. The supply chains keeping hospitals and clinics stocked and operational can be disrupted for weeks - when medicines and supplies are in desperate demand. That's why our relief experts have mastered the challenges of getting aid to the people who need it in the chaotic aftermath of a calamity.

Our emergency response teams have a proven track record of delivering urgently needed relief to survivors of natural and man-made disasters here at home and around the world. They provide medicines, hospital supplies, bottled water and water purification treatments, nutritional supplements and other critically needed aid. Our promise is simple: when people are in crisis, they will get the help they need — whenever they need it, and wherever they are.

For more than 25 years AmeriCares has provided medical relief and humanitarian assistance to millions affected by natural disasters and man-made crises. These have included the famine in Ethiopia (1984); the nuclear disaster in Chernobyl (1986); the Armenian earthquake (1988); Central America's Hurricane Mitch (1998); the Rwandan refugee crisis (1994); the attack on the World Trade Center (2001); the Asian tsunami (2004); Hurricane Katrina (2005); the Pakistan earthquake (2005); Myanmar's Cyclone Nargis (2008); China earthquake (2008); South Pacific earthquakes and typhoons (2009) and the ongoing humanitarian crisis in Darfur.

Phases of Emergency Response

To assist countries and communities that have difficulty responding to the tragic losses and extraordinary costs of natural disasters and conflict-induced crises, AmeriCares launches emergency response initiatives for four emergency phases:

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Pre-positioning of supplies and trauma & emergency medical training for first responders Immediate delivery of medical & humanitarian aid for survivors Restoration of damaged health care infrastructure Long-term rebuilding of devastated communities


Timeline: Emergency Response

AmeriCares has responded to the following emergencies around the world and here at home:
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El Salvador - Flooding Relief
November
U.S. and Central America - Hurricane Ida and Flooding
Guatemala - Food Shortage
Oct. - Nov.
Philippines & Vietnam - Typhoons Lupit, Ketsana & Parma 
Indonesia - Earthquakes
Samoa
 - Tsunamis  
Sept. - Oct.
Darfur - Civil Conflict 
IndonesiaEarthquake 
Burkina Faso, Senegal - Flooding 
IndiaMonsoon
August
Pakistan - Refugee Medical supplies
Taiwan - Typhoon
June
India - Cyclone Aila
May
Sri Lanka - Refugee Airlift
India - Orissa Tornado
April
Zimbabwe - Cholera
Jan. - Mar.
Sri Lanka - Civil Conflict 
ZimbabweCholera 
Kentucky, U.S. - Ice Storm 
GazaCivil Conflict
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Darfur - Civil Conflict
November
Congo - Civil Conflict
Pakistan - Earthquake
October
Honduras - Floods
Iraq - Cholera
September
Haiti - Hurricanes
Texas, U.S. - Hurricane Ike
August
Texas, U.S. - Hurricane Dolly
India - Floods  
June
Indiana, U.S.Floods
May
Iowa, U.S. - Tornado 
China - Earthquake
Myanmar - Cyclone
February
Ecuador - Floods
Alabama, Arkansas, Tennessee, U.S.Tornado
Bolivia - Floods
Ongoing Winter
Kenya - Political instability-induced IDP crisis
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Syria - Iraqi refugee crisis
U.S. - Northwest floods
November
Mexico - Tobasco region floods
Jordan - Iraqi refugee crisis
October
Dominican Republic - Tropical Storm Noel
California, U.S. - Wildfires
Central African Republic - Refugees crisis from Sudan
N. Korea - Floods
September
Jamaica, Honduras, Nicaragua - Hurricane Felix
Ongoing Fall
Bangladesh - Cyclone induced floods
September
Peru - Pisco earthquake
August
Iraq - Cholera outbreak
May
Afghanistan - Conflict reconstruction
Indonesia - Yogyakarta earthquake
Greensburg, Kansas, U.S.Tornado
April
Kenya - Malaria in refugee camps
Georgia, U.S. -  Wildfires
March
Mozambique - Floods
February
Bolivia - Floods
Indonesia - Jakarta floods
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Sri Lanka - Conflict-induced IDP crisis
Kosovo - Post-war reconstruction
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Indonesia, Sri Lanka - Asian Tsunami reconstruction
Louisiana, Mississippi, and Texas, U.S. - Hurricanes Katrina and Rita reconstruction
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Sudan - Darfur IDP crisis

 

AmeriCares is approved by the Internal Revenue Service as a 501 (C) (3) tax-exempt organization, and all donations are tax deductible to the extent provided by law. AmeriCares Federal Identification Number (EIN) is 061008595.


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