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AmeriCares has been providing humanitarian aid to the Middle East since the early 1980s and has responded to several emergencies and natural disasters in the region.
AmeriCares provided emergency relief to the mass exodus of Kurdish refugees to Iran in the early 1990s. AmeriCares sent aid again in 2003, to the survivors of the 6.6-magnitude earthquake that struck the city of Bam.
In 2003, AmeriCares delivered more than $8.3 million of aid to Iraq. The initial airlifts into the cities of Baghdad and Kirkuk were the first by a U.S. nongovernmental organization after the U.S. military declared victory.
Most recently, we have provided donations of medicines to volunteer physicians traveling to Israel from the U.S. through our Medical Outreach Program. AmeriCares has been collaborating with American Near East Refugee Aid (ANERA) since 1993 and has delivered more than $100 million worth of aid to Gaza and the West Bank. The relationship with ANERA expanded into Lebanon in 2000 and to Jordan in 2005.
ANERA is an American nongovernmental organization with program offices in Israel, Gaza and the West Bank. ANERA partners with many other American charitable organizations such as Global Impact, the American Jewish World Service and Mercy Corps. ANERA, like AmeriCares, has a humanitarian focus and is apolitical.
When the country is in need, AmeriCares also reaches out to our partners in Israel. However Magen David Adom, Israel's equivalent of the Red Cross, does not generally accept donations of medicines from outside the country. AmeriCares has been supporting medical relief for the Israeli people since 1993.
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