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Emergency ResponseAmeriCares was founded in response to an urgent request for help from Pope John Paul II in 1981, who asked AmeriCares founder Bob Macauley to aid the people of Poland, then suffering under martial law and lacking basic health and medical needs. In March of 1982, the first AmeriCares airlift was launched, delivering $3.2 million of medical aid to Poland. Throughout its 25-year history, AmeriCares has provided medical relief and other aid to millions of those affected by disasters such as 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 South Asian tsunami (2004); Hurricane Katrina (2005); the Pakistan earthquake (2005); flooding in Mozambique (2007); and the ongoing humanitarian crisis in Darfur.
A boy plays in front of his home destroyed by cyclone Nargis at a Myanmar town of Bogalay, southwest of Yangon May 8, 2008. Reuters/Stringer, Courtesy To learn more about AmeriCares Emergency Response work, please click on one of the following links:
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