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Our Work in Country

Colombia faces numerous barriers in improving healthcare due to its wide-ranging landscapes, increasing poverty and having one of the largest internally displaced populations in the world as a result of more than five decades of internal armed conflict.

Through its ongoing partnership with the Order of Malta, Americares brings access to healthcare and medical supplies to some of the country’s most remote and under-served communities, reaching more than 50 active sub-recipients.

And now at its border with Venezuela, Colombia hosts clinics that are providing medical care to migrants fleeing the economic and social crisis in Venezuela.

Working in Colombia since 1985.

A group of women at La Pista, who went to the brigade to get medical assistant, waiting for their turn in La Guajira Colombia,

Health Crisis

In 2018, Americares began operating medical clinics in Colombia, to provide essential primary care services and access to medicine for migrants fleeing the humanitarian emergency in Venezuela. With the rise of the Global COVID-19 Pandemic, the clinics have adapted their work to manage the unprecedented demands of the new crisis. As the Pandemic intensified in the region, Americares continued its efforts to provide healthcare services by focusing predominantly on pregnant women and children, while also delivering mental health services to this vulnerable population.

Watch the video of Americares work in the border crisis as seen through the eyes of a clinic doctor in LaGuajira.

Health Snapshot

Due to Colombia’s location within the Pacific Ring of Fire, it puts the population at higher risk of experiencing earthquakes, flooding, and volcanic eruptions. Not only are residents vulnerable to natural disasters, but with a high rate of poverty – roughly 27 percent – it makes it difficult for them to access necessary healthcare and increases their vulnerability to certain diseases in the region.  

Americares Inc. en Colombia

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AMERICARES FOUNDATION INC.  es una entidad sin ánimo de lucro extranjera u ONG que estableció negocios permanentes en Colombia, conforme a los requisitos para su registro e inscripción de que trata la Circular Externa 008 del 2012 de la Superintendencia de Industria y Comercio, los cuales fueron debidamente cumplidos. Y que además cuenta con un Número de Identificación Tributaria que la hace en territorio colombiano capaz de ejercer derechos y contraer obligaciones en el marco de su actividad.