India

 AmeriCares has been active in India since 1982, providing critical relief to victims of floods, cyclones, earthquakes and other humanitarian emergencies, as well as ongoing medical assistance to numerous hospitals and clinics. AmeriCares is registered under the Indo-U.S. Agreement of 1968 to provide humanitarian assistance to India.

AmeriCares has worked with several partners in many regions, including the Missionaries of Charity throughout India, the Hemophilia Federation in Delhi, the Bishop of Alleppey in Kerala, the Lions Club in Orissa and the exiled Tibetan Administration of the Dalai Llama based in Dharamsala.  AmeriCares maintains an on-going relationship with the Bishop of Alleppey and several hospitals in Kerala, sending semi-annual shipments of relief supplies.

In January 2001, a 7.9 magnitude earthquake struck Gujarat state and AmeriCares responded with relief supplies, including medical supplies, water purification tablets, nutritional supplements, tents, blankets and other materials. Working in the quake zone, AmeriCares relief workers organized the distribution of relief supplies to hundreds of thousands of people displaced by the catastrophe.  AmeriCares also provided orthopedic equipment and training to clinics throughout the quake-affected area.

In summer 2005, two torrential floods impacted Gujarat and Maharashtra, including large areas of the metropolis of Mumbai (formerly Bombay).  More than 130 people were killed and 500,000 more were affected by the flooding, after overflowing dams and rivers inundated the countryside, entirely submerging more than 8,000 villages.  AmeriCares launched an emergency response that included almost $2 million in relief supplies to Gujarat, and more than $12 million to aid the affected population in Maharashtra.

AmeriCares is currently committed to assisting India's IMPACT Foundation's "Lifeline Express," a self-contained mobile hospital that travels by rail.  AmeriCares has supported the Lifeline Express since the Gujarat earthquake in 2001 and most recently gave $100,000 in medicine and equipment to the mobile unit.