President George H.W. Bush and Mrs. Barbara Bush will be honored for their dedication to humanitarian causes at the 30th annual Americares Airlift Benefit in October. The Bushes will be the inaugural recipients of the Bob and Leila Macauley Humanitarian Spirit Award.

To support refugees and displaced people, Americares provides health programs, medicine and medical suppliesto health centers, volunteer medical teams, governments and organizations set up to serve unique groups.

A volunteer medical team supported by Americares and set up in Lebanon to provide free health services to Syrian refugees, gave a young family the care they needed.

Americares, in partnership with the Healthcare Distribution Alliance (HDA), has presented its annual Power of Partnership Award to Endo Pharmaceuticals Inc. and Par Pharmaceutical, operating companies of Endo International plc, in recognition of their outstanding commitment to increasing access to health care around the world.

Stamford, Conn.— June 2, 2017— Americares is deploying a response team to Sri Lanka, where severe flooding and landslides have killed more than 200 people and left thousands homeless.

Americares is deploying an emergency response team to Sri Lanka, where severe flooding and landslides have killed more than 200 people and left thousands homeless. In addition shipments of emergency medicine and relief supplies are underway.

In #HerWords Monica tells the story of how an obstetric fistula took her life away and how the free surgery supported by Americares and Johnson & Johnson gave it back again.

Our emergency team and mobile medical units responded to Peru’s worst flooding in decades, providing immediate health care for survivors along with emergency supplies.

Americares is responding to a string of deadly storms that tore through Texas, Missouri, Arkansas, Tennessee and Mississippi, spawning tornadoes and floods and leaving a trail of devastation.

A child in Nigeria gets emergency treatment and a poor family is spared financial hardship when a volunteer medical team supported by Americares Medical Outreach arrives just in time at a local health center.

Americares announces that longtime supporter Roberta Conroy of Westport, CT, has been elected to its Board of Directors.

Americares responded to the strongest cyclone to hit Madagascar in 13 years. In addition to emergency supplies, the team coordinated emergency repairs to two health facilities damaged and rendered inoperable in the storm: a community health center and a TB clinic.

In April 2016, a 7.8-magnitude earthquake struck Ecuador’s northern Pacific coast bringing devastation and death. Americares responded to immediate health needs of survivors and then provided a field hospital to help in the restoration of health services.

Americares is delivering emergency medical aid to Somalia, where a prolonged drought has pushed the country to the brink of famine. The organization’s response to one of the worst humanitarian emergencies in decades focuses on treating cholera, a deadly water-borne disease.

Stamford, Conn.— April 5, 2017– Americares is delivering emergency medical aid to Somalia, where a prolonged drought has pushed the country to the brink of famine.

A mental health program supported by Americares gave survivors of the Nepal earthquake new ways to cope with the pain and loss after a major disaster.

Stamford, Conn.— March 23, 2017– Americares is responding to historic floods in Peru, where destructive high waters have killed more than 70 people and forced the local government to declare a state of emergency.

Stamford, Conn.— March 21, 2017— Social media entrepreneur and philanthropist Dr. Mikhail Varshavski is headed to El Salvador to work alongside doctors at the Americares family clinic.

Stamford, Conn.— March 9, 2017— Americares is deploying an emergency response team to Madagascar where a deadly cyclone displaced more than 10,000 people this week. Relief workers focused on meeting survivors’ health needs are on their way from Americares offices in the U.S. and Nepal to the African country.

For low-income, uninsured people in Louisiana, the Eunice Community Health Center is their only lifeline to health care access. A farm worker family served by the clinic say it is really a matter of life and death.