Middle East

AmeriCares has been providing humanitarian aid to the Middle East since the early 1980's and has responded to several emergencies and natural disasters in this region.

AmeriCares provided emergency relief to the mass exodus of Kurdish refugees to Iran in the early 1990's. AmeriCares sent aid again in 2003, to the survivors of the 6.6 magnitude earthquake, which struck the city of Bam.

In 2003, AmeriCares delivered over $8.3 million of aid to Iraq via airlifts and ground shipments to Baghdad and Kirkuk. The initial airlifts into both cities were the first by a U.S. non governmental organization after the US military declared victory.

AmeriCares has been collaborating with American Near East Refugee Aid (ANERA) since 1993 and has delivered more than $32 million worth of aid to Gaza and the West Bank region. This relationship expanded into Lebanon in 2000 and to Jordan in 2005.