We work with 3,000 local partners worldwide to assess health needs and deliver $500 million in medical and humanitarian aid to more than 90 countries each year.
The world’s leading pharmaceutical companies rely on AmeriCares to distribute their donated medicines and supplies where they will be used most effectively for those in the greatest need.
From our work around the world and across the U.S., we share the many stories of lives saved, health restored and hope renewed.
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SyriaA team of AmeriCares aid workers report from the borders of Syria, where our partners are providing medical care and humanitarian aid to people fleeing the horrific violence. Since the brutal conflict began, AmeriCares has provided more than $2 million in emergency medical and humanitarian aid to partners helping people in the war-torn region.
United StatesAmeriCares large-scale tornado response includes enough grants and aid to help more than 20,000 people struggling amid the devastation in Oklahoma.
MyanmarIn five days on site in Myanmar, a surgical team outfitted with medicines from AmeriCares Medical Outreach Program worked with local doctors and nurses to screen patients, conduct surgeries and educate local medical professionals.
United StatesAs the Northeast continues to recover from Hurricane Sandy, Atlantic hurricane season has begun amid forecasts of above average storm activity for 2013. AmeriCares is ready in advance long before a hurricane strikes – so that crucial medicines and relief supplies are in the hands of response partners and survivors as quickly as possible.
BangladeshAmeriCares shipped of 3,000 pounds of emergency medicines and supplies emergency medical aid to Bangladesh to help reduce the suffering of survivors injured in the deadly building collapse. The shipment included medicines and surgical supplies needed to treat hundreds of trauma patients like Rebeka and Marium, who sustained crush injuries in the disaster.
United StatesAmeriCares Hurricane Sandy relief and recovery team continues working with clinics, shelters, and partners to deliver aid and emergency grants to ease the suffering of families in need throughout the tri-state area.
HaitiAmeriCares Haiti team is prepared in advance for another active Atlantic Hurricane Season (June 1 to November 30) predicted by the National Weather Service. The team has prepositioned cholera medicines and supplies and family preparedness kits to help families in flood-prone communities.
United StatesTo help low income and uninsured patients like Janey breathe easier and avoid unnecessary trips to the hospital, AmeriCares is providing a record quantity of respiratory medicines to hundreds of clinics and community health centers across the United States in 2013.
United StatesAmber Kriesel knew she had to act fast. Sixteen minutes after the emergency sirens sounded in Moore, Okahoma, a monstrous tornado touched down.
GhanaTo prevent malnutrition among Ghana’s orphaned children, AmeriCares launched One Child One World, a five-year pilot program helping vulnerable children aged 0-18 months living in 30 residential homes.
United StatesAmeriCares emergency response team has been deployed to Oklahoma to assess urgent needs and coordinate deliveries of medical and emergency aid.
SyriaAs the deadly civil war in Syria rages, AmeriCares has provided more than $2 million in medical aid, including antibiotics, chronic disease medicines and wound care supplies to help countless patients in desperate need.
AfghanistanXANGO has partnered with AmeriCares to deliver meal packs where they are most needed, in countries with high levels of malnutrition, including Afghanistan, Cambodia, El Salvador, Guatemala, Somalia, Malawi, Mexico, Nicaragua and the Philippines.
BangladeshAmeriCares is preparing an emergency medical aid shipment for survivors of last week’s devastating building collapse in Bangladesh. The global health and disaster relief organization is sending 3,000 pounds of medicines and supplies to the National Institute for Trauma and Orthopedic Rehabilitation in Savar, one of the major hospitals treating the injured.
AfghanistanAmeriCares is partnering with American Medical Overseas Relief to provide a safer birth environment and better health outcomes for mothers and babies, with the donation of clean birth kits to Afshar Hospital in Kabul.
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Press Releases
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Media Coverage
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The Daily Beast: How First Responders RespondNBC Connecticut
NBC Connecticut: Relief Team from Stamford Heads to OklahomaThe Star-Ledger / NJ.com
The Star-Ledger / NJ.com: New wheelchair ramps are installed at hurricane damaged homesABC 7 Eyewitness News
ABC 7 Eyewitness News: YMCA group helping kids cope with Sandy memoriesThe Star-Ledger / NJ.com
The Star-Ledger / NJ.com: Mental health experts prepare for Hurricane Sandy's protracted emotional tollThe New York Times
The New York Times: Cholera in HaitiNew York Times
NYTimes.com: Letter - Fighting MalnutritionNew York Times
New York Times: Moving Forward in Tough TimesEntertainment Weekly
Entertainment Weekly: Will Ferrell, Jon Hamm, Sarah Silverman, and Aziz Ansari perform at the 'We Hate Hurricanes' benefitWTNH.com Connecticut
WTNH.com Connecticut: Giving TuesdayStaten Island Advance
Staten Island Advance: Volunteers distributing sleeping bags to Staten Islanders on TuesdayWTNH.com Connecticut
WTNH.com Connecticut: AmeriCares heads to NY to help after SandyThe Daily Beast
The Daily Beast: Sandy Donations Pour InThe Wall Street Journal
Wall Street Journal: All Purpose Angels Help RebuildCBS: New York
CBS New York: Hurricane IsaacCT Post, Advocate, Greenwhich Time, and News-Times
CT Post, Advocate, Greenwich Time, News-Times: Trumbull company's donation a lifesaver for moms, babies
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Annual Reports
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2012 Full Financials to Annual Report (127 KB)
2012 AmeriCares Annual Report (24pp) (1.29 MB)
2011 Full Financials to Annual Report (122 KB)
2011 AmeriCares Annual Report (5.20 MB)
2010 Full Financials to Annual Report (425 KB)
2010 AmeriCares Annual Report (5.55 MB)
2009 Full Financials to the Annual Report (331 KB)
2009 AmeriCares Annual Report (3.70 MB)
2008 Full Financials to Annual Report (408 KB)
2008 AmeriCares Annual Report (5.35 MB)
Quarterly Newsletters
2013 Summer Newsletter (458 KB)
2013 Spring Newsletter (542 KB)
2012 Winter Newsletter (1.55 MB)
2012 Spring/Summer Newsletter (1.31 MB)
2012 Fall Newsletter (1.19 MB)
2012 30th Anniversary Newsletter (1.17 MB)
2011 Winter Newsletter (1.05 MB)
2011 Spring/Summer Newsletter (1.30 MB)
2011 Fall Newsletter (1.54 MB)
2010 Winter Newsletter (4.11 MB)
2010 Spring/Summer Newsletter (1.50 MB)
2010 Fall Newsletter (1.41 MB)
2009 Spring/Summer Newsletter (803 KB)
2009 Fall Newsletter (844 KB)
2008 Winter Newsletter (1.43 MB)
2008 Summer Newsletter (1.45 MB)
2008 Spring Newsletter (857 KB)
2008 Fall Newsletter (1.83 MB)
2007 Summer Newsletter (2.44 MB)
2007 Spring Newsletter (2.16 MB)
2007 Fall Newsletter (2.44 MB)
2006 Winter Newsletter (2.18 MB)
2006 Spring Newsletter (745 KB)
2006 Fall Newsletter (1.14 MB)
2005 Winter Newsletter (250 KB)
2005 Spring Newsletter (962 KB)
2005 Fall Newsletter (1.50 MB)
2004 Winter Newsletter (1.17 MB)
2004 Summer Newsletter (790 KB)
2004 Spring Newsletter (836 KB)
2004 Fall Newsletter (615 KB)
2003 Winter Newsletter (1.50 MB)
2003 Spring Newsletter (1.73 MB)
2002 Winter Newsletter (2.47 MB)
2002 Spring Newsletter (2.47 MB)
2002 Fall Newsletter (483 KB)
Special Reports and Brochures
Haiti Activity Report and Country Prospectus - July 2012 (1.35 MB)
Haiti Three Year Report (278 KB)
Hurricane Sandy 6-Month Special Report (236 KB)
Japan One Year Report (1.34 MB)
Japan Two Year Report (264 KB)


