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The vast continent of Asia is home to diverse group of rich cultures that span across many countries.
AmeriCares has been bringing essential medicines and relief supplies to the region since the early 1980s.
AmeriCares disaster relief and emergency efforts in the region include responses to the 2011 Japan earthquake and tsunami, the China earthquake in 2008, Cyclone Nargis in Myanmar in 2008, and a string of disasters in 2010 and 2011, including three devastating typhoons in Hong Kong, the Philippines and Vietnam, and back-to-back earthquakes in Indonesia.
AmeriCares long-term humanitarian assistance to Asian countries includes Afghanistan, Bangladesh, Cambodia, China, India, Indonesia, Mongolia, North Korea/DPRK, Pakistan, the Philippines, Sri Lanka, Uzbekistan and Vietnam.
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