AmeriCares supports health care for widows like Donna Santana in El Salvador and other elderly women around the world. Read more.  Read More →
Daphne is now home, safe and sound, with her family.
Medical volunteers report back from an AmeriCares-supported mission in Uganda. Learn more and find out how you can help brave doctors save lives.   Read More →
Working during the height of Haiti earthquake efforts in January and February, Michelle met a young earthquake survivor named Sarah who still touches her heart today. Read Sarah's story.  Read More →
Veronica sits on her grandmother's lap during an early childhood development program.
AmeriCares supports a comprehensive health program to provide maternal and child care in rural El Salvador. Read our field report.  Read More →
A mother and daughter in the El Salvador Clinic cafeteria.
Penny, a visiting AmeriCares staff worker, highlights the bustling everyday activity of the El Salvador Clinic and its impact on the community. Read more.  Read More →
Dr. Bia treating patients at the General Hospital in Port-au-Prince
Day in the life of AmeriCares Medical Director in Haiti. Dr. Bia treats patients in one of Port-au-Prince’s busiest emergency rooms. Read more.  Read More →
Dr. Bia, AmeriCares Medical Director, is part of AmeriCares Emergency Response Team working with Elizabeth in Haiti.
Elizabeth Furst Frank is Senior Vice President of Global Programs for AmeriCares and oversees our comprehensive Haiti relief efforts. She is working with our emergency response team on the ground, including Medical Director, Dr. Frank Bia, to assess the current health situation and coordinate AmeriCares long-term commitment to help Haiti recover and rebuild its health care system. Here are her reflections from the field.  Read More →
Michelle next to pallets of critically-needed medical supplies.
The Dominican Republic and Haiti share the small island of Hispaniola and have a long history of tension. However, amidst this terrible tragedy I witnessed the Dominican people open their hearts and help their neighbors in Haiti affected by the earthquake.   Read More →
AmeriCares Relief Workers in Haiti. Pictured (L to R) Rachel Granger, Bret McEvoy, Carol Shattuck and Brian Hoyer
New Blog from Haiti. Read the latest personal stories from AmeriCares relief workers in Port-au-Prince.   Read More →
Read Dr. Lockwood’s story about providing health care for Haitian refugees and the poorest Dominicans through a program AmeriCares supports. Learn how you can help.   Read More →
Many HIV and AIDS patients in Cambodia live in squalor.
AmeriCares relief worker Kat Rady was recently in the slums outside Phnom Penh where AmeriCares supports Sihanouk Hospital Center of HOPE's home-based care program for HIV and AIDS patients as well as a mobile clinic that treats many AIDS patients.   Read More →
Rani and Rika try to remain brave despite missing their parents, who are in the hospital recovering from earthquake related injuries.
An AmeriCares emergency relief expert reports from his earthquake recovery efforts in Indonesia. Read more.  Read More →
AmeriCares Emergency Relief Expert, Puji Satrisno, stands before the Dr. M. Jamil Hospital in Padang, Indonesia. Two earthquakes caused the hospital to collapse; 1,000 patients are in tents now serving as hospital wards.
AmeriCares Emergency Relief Manager arrived in Padang, Indonesia today to work with local doctors and provide medical aid for earthquake survivors. Please donate to help.   Read More →
Millions of women around the world can recover from the trauma of fistula.
Read Mariama’s story, a young woman who suffered for over 15 years from an injury she endured while delivering a baby after her marriage as a child bride. Learn more and help other women recover.   Read More →
Kendra Hanson (right) helps celebrate the kick off of a back-to-school vaccination program to help children in Katrina-affected neighborhoods of New Orleans, Louisiana.
Here is a first hand account from Kendra Hanson, an AmeriCares relief worker, who has just returned from the field in Katrina-affected communities. Read her story.   Read More →
A man, who fled military offensive two- months earlier, enters the city of Mingora by foot, in Pakistan's Swat Valley.
Beaten by the Taliban, forced from his home by war, Salem still holds onto hope that peace will return to his home in Pakistan's Swat Valley. Read his story.  Read More →
A mother walks with her children as other civilians stand in line to receive food at the Manik Farm refugee camp in Northern Sri Lanka
An AmeriCares relief worker reports from the field in Sri Lanka where he has been helping displaced families still living in refugee camps like Manik Farm. Learn more and find out how you can help.  Read More →
Ana Deisy and her son Miguel get their health care at AmeriCares Family Clinic in Santiago de Maria, El Salvador.
AmeriCares hopes to celebrate Mother's Day by making it easier for mothers, and their children, to get the medicines and health care they so desperately need. This is the story of Ana Deisy, the mother of one of our patients at the AmeriCares Family Clinic in El Salvador.  Read More →
AmeriCares relief worker Michael Chang shares thoughts and impressions from his latest review of earthquake recovery efforts in China.  Read More →
A mother attends to her child being treated at the AmeriCares-sponsored therapeutic feeding center in Malawi.
Elikem Tomety Archer, AmeriCares partnership manager for Africa, worked extensively in Africa including health programs in HIV/AIDS, malnutrition and anti-blindness initiatives. Elikem shares her most recent trip and tales of hope from Malawi. The medicines AmeriCares delivers help to relieve illness, and provide hope for families, one small step at a time.  Read More →

 

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