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Emergency Aid and Disaster Relief
In September 2007 Hurricane Felix touchdown in Nicaragua, causing extreme flooding and contaminating water supplies that ultimately effected more than 50,000 people and killed over 100. Providing impacted areas with clean drinking water became the most urgent and basic step to rebuilding.
Within 2 days of Hurricane Felix, an AmeriCares emergency response team accompanied a chartered airlift carrying nearly 5,000 bottles of safe drinking water, vital medicines and disaster relief to help survivors.
Medical and Humanitarian Aid
AmeriCares has provided humanitarian aid to Nicaragua since 1986, delivering more than $388 million in medicines and supplies to date. Working with local partners, AmeriCares donations reach more than 100 health care institutions throughout Nicaragua, including children's hospitals and rural clinics.
Among the health care providers we help is the Hospital Masaya, a health center with 177-beds, treats nearly 500 patients per day, half of which are emergency cases. The hospital's HIV/AIDS program serves patient who need continuous care and enrolls mothers who are living with the illness in a transmission prevention program. Another receipient, the Hospital Antonio Lenin Fonseca is a national general hospital with 248 beds and 11 specialties in the capital city of Managua. This facility treats more than 400 patients and performs up to 30 operations daily. AmeriCares donations help the hospital deliver quality care.
To address the needs of hard-to-reach rural areas, AmeriCares supplies medicine and equipment to doctors and dentists participating in medical outreach brigades. Dangerous road conditions, deficient resources, and limited money prevent many rural farmers from accessing medical care. Villages can be located more than half-a-days walk from the closest medical center, which are often rundown clinics, overwhelmed with patients and short on supplies. Outreach brigades travel to isolated regions equipped with AmeriCares donations, bringing free care to people who would otherwise not have an opportunity for medical help.
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