June 05, 2015
In Guatemala, a volunteer surgical team supported by AmeriCares Medical Outreach gives Felipe his sight back– one of 60 life-changing eye surgeries performed during their medical trip to provide critical health care to people in need.
May 20, 2015
Stamford, Conn. – May 20, 2015 – AmeriCares is delivering $13 million worth of medicine and supplies to…
May 15, 2015
Stamford, Conn. — May 15, 2015 — Three emerging AmeriCares leaders have been selected to participate in the 7th annual American Express Leadership Academy, May 17-22, at the Thunderbird School of Global Management in Glendale, Arizona.
May 11, 2015
A volunteer medical team on its regular visit to Bolivia performs a complex surgery for free, giving a young college student the ability to eat normally again and live a productive, healthy life.
May 06, 2015
April 25, 2015
Stamford, Conn. – April 25, 2015 – AmeriCares is responding to the 7.8-magnitude earthquake that rocked Nepal earlier…
April 20, 2015
A community leader mobilizes the people in his farming and fishing community in El Salvador to improve their health and overall quality of life through regular visits to the AmeriCares Family Clinic in Santiago de Maria.
April 03, 2015
Forty years ago Bob Macauley, a Connecticut businessman, chartered a plane and helped save the lives of orphan children who had survived a plane crash during the evacuation in the last days of the Vietnam war. i¢â‚¬Å“Operation Babylifti¢â‚¬Â gave rise to AmeriCares, a global organization dedicated to saving lives and restoring health.
March 20, 2015
March 17, 2015
A rare condition and a rare surgery by a volunteer medical team supported with medicine and supplies from AmeriCares Medical Outreach gave a baby in Peru a real smile for the first time in her life.
A woman’s life is saved when a volunteer medical team on an annual visit to El Salvador performs emergency surgery using supplies and medicine donated by AmeriCares– one of over 1,200 medical teams supported through our Medical Outreach last year.
AmeriCares and long-term partner FUSAL conducted a grassroots education and prevention campaign in El Salvador that reached 25,000 inhabitants in coastal communities suffering from a high incidence of the mosquito-borne viruses of dengue and chikungunya.
March 15, 2015
Stamford, Conn. – March 15, 2015 – AmeriCares is responding to Cyclone Pam, which has left…
March 12, 2015
This fate of a husband and wife in a Liberian village is the story of Ebola: the cruel reality and courageous survival that people in Liberia and the other countries of West Africa are facing every day in the many long months of the Ebola outbreak.
March 02, 2015
Stamford, Conn. – March 2, 2015 – AmeriCares, the Stamford-based emergency response and global health organization,…
February 26, 2015
60,000 Uninsured Patients to Benefit from Heart Month Donation Stamford, Conn. – Feb. 26, 2015…
February 25, 2015
Two uninsured patients with cardiovascular disease find relief from serious health worries at safety net clinics providing free medicine, including medications donated by AmeriCares.
February 19, 2015
Stamford, Conn. – Feb. 19, 2015 – AmeriCares, the Stamford-based emergency response and global health organization,…
February 10, 2015
The Uganda Spine Surgery Mission, one of 1,200 volunteer medical teams supported by AmeriCares, performed life-changing surgery on a 13-year-old boy in Uganda. The team handles complex surgeries that would otherwise be unavailable, while providing training for local health care professionals.