To further bolster health care in Haiti, AmeriCares supplies volunteer medical teams with medicines to provide essential services, including primary care and surgeries.

Since the dark days after the 2010 earthquake, our Medical Outreach program has outfitted 582 medical teams with medicine to treat more than 900,000 people in Haiti — a value of $37 million*. Immediately after the earthquake, many doctors volunteered for trauma care, often operating in tents. Now, with some medical facilities repaired or rebuilt, they can offer a wider range of care.

Global Pre-Positioning helps partners quickly respond to disaster

Hundreds of Indonesia flood survivors were quickly helped with emergency aid supported by AmeriCares Global Pre-Positioning Initiative. Launched in 2012, the initiative provides funds to help partners put crucial relief supplies in place before disaster strikes – enabling faster response for survivors in urgent need.

An innovative AmeriCares program in Haiti is funding the restoration of an emergency room destroyed by the 2010 earthquake and providing impoverished patients increased access to top quality specialty care.

In the nightmarish days after the earthquake, injured patients swarmed Hopital Canape Vert, a premiere private hospital in Haiti. Despite the fact that their own emergency room had been wiped out, doctors there treated all incoming patients free of charge.

To help survivors of Typhoon Bopha, the most powerful storm to hit the Philippines in the past year, AmeriCares has sent two new medical aid shipments:

Emergency Air Shipment: More than two thousand pounds of medical aid and relief supplies including antibiotics, gastrointestinal medicines, wound care supplies and nutritional supplements was sent to our partner, the Sovereign Order of Malta, on January 6. The shipment will be distributed to response partners helping families in hard-hit Mindanao Island and the Davao region.

Response continues for families in struggling communities

Thanks to an outpouring of support from individuals and companies worldwide, AmeriCares has provided $2.5 million in aid, benefiting an estimated 318,000 people struggling in the aftermath of Hurricane Sandy.

Our Hurricane Sandy relief teams have been working nonstop to ease the suffering of victims in hard-hit areas of New York, New Jersey and Connecticut, delivering:

Tens of thousands of displaced amid shortage of medicines and supplies

Since South Sudan gained independence in 2011, ongoing conflict with Sudan and an escalating refugee crisis has left innocent civilians with very limited access to medical care. AmeriCares has responded with funding to rehabilitate three health clinics serving 14,000 survivors, along with emergency medical aid shipments to help another 30,000 people.

AmeriCares large scale hurricane response—totaling $1 million in overall aid to date, continued throughout the Thanksgiving holiday. A Thanksgiving turkey dinner for 500—with all of the trimmings—was served at a Nassau Community College shelter operated by the American Red Cross.

Stamford, Conn. – Oct. 25, 2012 – Pharmaceutical company Midlothian Laboratories recently donated nearly 500 bottles of prenatal vitamins to help pregnant women in the developing world have healthy babies. Volunteer medical teams providing primary care services in the Dominican Republic, Ghana, Haiti, Honduras, India, Kenya, Nigeria, Panama and Togo distributed the vitamins to expectant mothers through AmeriCares Medical Outreach Program. The program supplies U.S.-based health care providers with medicines and medical supplies for 1,000 volunteer trips each year.

Stamford, Conn. – Oct. 26, 2012 – AmeriCares emergency response experts are closely monitoring Hurricane Sandy and preparing to deliver medicines, first aid kits, cleaning products, flashlights and other relief supplies to the hardest hit communities up and down the East Coast. AmeriCares relief workers have reached out to more than 100 health clinics, food banks and other agencies with offers of assistance. The global health and disaster relief organization also has aid workers ready to be deployed at a moment’s notice.