Become a partner in disaster relief with Americares
Even before Hurricane Helene made landfall on Florida’s Gulf Coast as a Category 4 storm on September 26, Americares had launched a response. Before the storm, Americares emergency experts reached out to more than 360 partner clinics with offers of assistance, and in the days that followed, they shipped more than 16 tons of medicine […]
Half the world needs health care: here’s how you can help
Half of the world’s population lacks access to essential health care — and you have the power to change that. A donation at work toward global health can provide the safe delivery of a newborn baby, the ready-to-use therapeutic food that nourishes a child and brings them back to health, the medical care that saves […]
The quiet before the storm: 8 charities preparing for severe hurricane season
Editor’s Note: Unfortunately, the impacts of hurricane season are upon us. Hurricane Helene has devastated the American Southeast, and to support relief and recovery efforts we’ve launched the Hurricane Helene Disaster Relief Fund. Experts predict this will be one of the most severe hurricane seasons on record. As we brace for potential storms, the urgency […]
Americares’ response to severe floods this year
Thirty-two million people around the world were affected by floods last year, and this year, experts are predicting harsher and more frequent storms. From South America to Asia to the U.S., the world has already seen its fair share of deadly floods in 2024, impacting hundreds of thousands of people. Wondering how you can help […]
AMERICARES: This Ambulance Crosses Borders When Its Patients Cannot
For most transgender women in Ukraine, there is no way to cross the border to Poland or other countries: Their formal documents identify them as men, so the government prohibits them from leaving the country. But, with Americares help, this group does receive specialized health care – from an ambulance that brings LGBTQ+ care to […]
AMERICARES: Your Gift: Saves a Baby’s Life
Every mother wants the same thing after giving birth: to hear their baby cry, proof that their newborn has taken their first, lifegiving breath. Martha, a young mother in rural Grand Bassa, Liberia, did not hear a wail: Her tiny boy was limp, blue and not breathing. Instead, she heard midwife Roseline Williams move quickly, […]
AMERICARES: Voices From Ukraine: “I was shouting everywhere, ‘we need medicine!’”
Nezabutni is a nonprofit organization that provides medicine and other support to elderly people, including those with dementia, in Ukraine. When medicine for dementia was impossible to find in the country at the start of the war, Americares provided Nezabutni with $1.8 million in medicine and supplies, which the organization distributed to hospitals and health centers, including a hospital for the elderly in Kyiv, where Dr. Viktor Kholin is director.
Champion disaster relief charities through your workplace
Florida. Pakistan. The Horn of Africa. Ukraine. Afghanistan. If you’re keeping up with the news cycle, it seems like there’s a new emergency popping up at the forefront faster than we can even process the emergency that occurred before it. And with so many disasters happening around the world, it can feel flustering to decide […]
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AMERICARES: Americares & Zipline Deliver Medicine and Supplies By Drone
When Ellen Donkor’s baby had a fever, she rushed the little girl to a clinic near Kumasi, Ghana, where doctors prescribed lifesaving medicine that parachuted from the sky – delivered by a drone. “If not for this service, we would be referred to another hospital,” Donkor says. “By the time you see the doctor there, […]
