Ensuring the poor and most vulnerable have access to quality health care services is central to Americares mission to save lives and improve the health of people affected by poverty or disaster.

Americares is deeply concerned about the recent executive order on immigration and refugees. Years of deadly conflict in Syria has emerged as one of the world’s most urgent humanitarian crises, with more than six million persons displaced within Syria and over two million refugees fleeing the violence into neighboring Jordan, Lebanon and Turkey, including 1 million children.

After Hurricane Maria smashed into Puerto Rico, Dominica, the Virgin Islands and other beleaguered Caribbean islands, Americares emergency team continues response and recovery work.

Americares celebrated the opening of its newest free clinic for the uninsured with a ribbon cutting ceremony in Stamford, Conn., this morning.

A five-year-old girl in the Dominican Republic gets to see for the first time in her life after a volunteer medical team supported by Americares Medical Outreach program performs free cataract surgery.

A rural free clinic that was able to reopen its doors after the Great Flood in Louisiana with the help of Americares could save the life of a truck driver because of a single donated medicine.

A young patient in Guatemala sings his thanks to a volunteer medical team for their eye surgery that transformed his life— a surgery supported by Americares Medical Outreach program.

The Morales family, like thousands of others in El Salvador, has found a way to reach a healthier future through the Americares Family Clinic in Santiago de Maria.

Stamford, Conn.— Dec. 8, 2016— Americares is responding to the 6.5-magnitude earthquake that shook the Indonesian island of Sumatra early Wednesday morning, toppling buildings, destroying roads and sending aftershocks throughout the region.

Stamford, Conn.— December 7, 2016— Americares is delivering medicine and relief supplies to Tennessee for families displaced by the recent wildfires

Stamford, Conn.— Nov. 29, 2016— Volunteers from Voya Financial assembled 1,000 first aid kits at Americares headquarters today, Tuesday, Nov. 29, as part of the nonprofit organization’s #GivingTuesday campaign. More than 40 employees of Voya Financial’s New York City and Windsor, Conn., offices participated.

DEERFIELD, Ill.,— November 29, 2016— Baxter International Foundation and Americares are launching a new oral health project to help combat the negative impact poor oral hygiene can have on patients’ overall health.

Stamford, Conn.— Nov. 3, 2016— Expectant mothers in El Salvador now have access to new, protective apparel that defends against mosquitos that carry the Zika virus.

Stamford, Conn.— Oct. 20, 2016— Americares is deploying a response team to the northern Philippines where Typhoon Haima has left a path of destruction.

Our Emergency Manager In Haiti, tells of her team’s journey to Ji©ri©mie to deliver medical aid through a landscape of near total devastation and people struggling to survive.

Americares emergency teams are on the ground in Haiti and in Florida, coordinating with partner organizations to respond to the deadly impact of Hurricane Matthew.

Stamford, Conn.— Oct. 4, 2016— Americares is preparing to deploy an emergency response team from its U.S. headquarters to assist the Hurricane Matthew relief efforts in Haiti.

Stamford, Conn.— Oct. 3, 2016— Americares is preparing to respond to Hurricane Matthew as the Caribbean braces for one of the most powerful storms in nearly a decade.

Mumbai, September 13, 2016 — Spirit of Humanity, an initiative by Americares, recognized and rewarded 6 NGOs in varied impact sectors in its finale held on September 12, 2016 at J W Marriott Mumbai Sahar.

Stamford, Conn.— Sept. 14, 2016— Dr. Tom R. Frieden, director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, will be the keynote speaker at a Sept. 20 panel discussion on epidemics at the 2016 Concordia Summit in New York.