As rescue efforts continue for survivors in flood-ravaged Colorado, AmeriCares emergency response staff has deployed to the hardest hit areas, to assess immediate needs and connect with partner organizations helping communities affected by the devastation.
AmeriCares partnership with Open Door Clinic is helping uninsured patients in Florida. Donations of medicines and supplies help patients with chronic diseases gain continued access to critical health care.
Each summer, AmeriCares-supported Camp Ray of Hope in Romania transforms the lives of impoverished young children suffering from hemophilia.
An emergency shipment of atropine to treat nerve gas poisoning is being rushed to our response partners – the latest in AmeriCares large-scale response to help families fleeing the violence in Syria.
Since 2010, AmeriCares has worked with TOMS to deliver new shoes to impoverished children in Guatemala and other countries around the world — including Uzbekistan, the Philippines, Armenia, and El Salvador.
As 1.4 million people struggle amid devastating flooding in Pakistan, AmeriCares pre-positioned relief supplies helped partners reach families with cucial aid as quickly as possible
Months after the flood disaster in the Indian state of Uttarakhand, AmeriCares India team continues to respond with free medical camps and distributions of non-food items and water purification to help families in desperate need.
An AmeriCares shipment of urgently-needed emergency medical kits has arrived in the Central African Republic, to provide primary care to people suffering amid an escalating civil conflict.
AmeriCares has sent a new shipment of emergency medical aid to partners working in Mauritania to curb the spread of deadly diseases including malaria and cholera that persist in crowded camps.
A new shipment of emergency medical aid is being rushed to our response partners – the latest in AmeriCares large-scale response to help families fleeing the violence in Syria.
In response to conflict and humanitarian crisis in South Sudan, AmeriCares has responded with a new shipment of emergency aid to help 15,000 people suffering from serious infections, malaria, pain and disease.
The Pediatric Nutrition Program in Vietnam recently celebrated its 10-year anniversary. AmeriCares partnerships with the Giao Diem Humanitarian Foundation and the Abbott Fund have substantially improved the health and lives of approximately 22,000 preschool children living in rural areas where resources are scarce and hunger prevalent.
AmeriCares Global Cholera Initiative aims to reduce infection rates and save lives worldwide with rapid deliveries of treatment supplies and prevention training. The effort continues in Sierra Leone, where an alarming outbreak sickened and killed thousands in late 2012.
AmeriCares latest emergency aid shipment -- 1 million units of water purification product – has arrived to help families in the Mbera refugee camp in Mauritania. The delivery is part of an ongoing response to the Sahel crisis in West Africa.
AmeriCares project at Bugando Medical Centre provides cost-free, skilled fistula repair services, and allows women like Amina to regain their health, their dignity and their lives.
In the slums of Mumbai, India, AmeriCares mobile medical teams are going door-to-door, educating women about Hepatitis B. The two-year project is identifying and helping hundreds of expectant mothers with the virus and vaccinating their newborns.
The AmeriCares Medial Outreach program donated medicines and supplies to aid a short-term medical mission to help school children in Haiti. The team treated the children for wounds, skin infections, and dental cavities and abscesses. Dental care is a significant problem within the school-age population.
Each year, when the rainy season in Haiti prompts a spike in cholera cases, AmeriCares is ready in advance. Since the 2010 cholera outbreak, AmeriCares has delivered more than 325,000 cholera treatments – enough medicines to treat about 150,000 patients -- and supported the training of over 140,000 people in cholera prevention.
AmeriCares shipped a truckload of bottled water to St. Mary’s Food Bank Alliance in Phoenix, Arizona through a partnership with Nestle Waters North America and Feeding America in response to the wildfires in Yarnell, Arizona that claimed lives and destroyed homes. The water from the shipment is being provided to disaster survivors, emergency responders, and volunteers.
AmeriCares ensures that its aid is put into the hands of people who need it most. We uphold this standard by remaining transparent and efficient in the delivery process from start to finish -- from receiving donations to building targeted shipments to delivering aid and monitoring in-country distribution.
Since 1982, AmeriCares has delivered more than $11 billion in aid to help people in 164 countries.
More than 97% of our overall expenses support our programs. Because we deliver donated medical and humanitarian aid to a trusted network of health care partners around the world, we multiply the impact of contributions from our supporters many, many times over.
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