Two Rare Things: One Baby’s Condition and a Doctor in Peru Who Could Treat Her
A rare condition and a rare surgery by a volunteer medical team supported with medicine and supplies from AmeriCares Medical Outre…
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Grassroots Education and Prevention Helps El Salvador Communities Fight Mosquito-borne Diseases
AmeriCares and long-term partner FUSAL conducted a grassroots education and prevention campaign in El Salvador that reached 25,000…
Medical Outreach: Saving a Life in El Salvador
A woman’s life is saved when a volunteer medical team on an annual visit to El Salvador performs emergency surgery using supplie…
Safe Water and Sanitation Save Lives Worldwide
Clean water saves lives. On World Water Day and every day, AmeriCares helps to provide safe water access, hygiene and sanitation …
Remembering Operation Babylift 40 Years Later
Forty years ago Bob Macauley, a Connecticut businessman, chartered a plane and helped save the lives of orphan children who had su…
Health Workers Save Lives Every Day
The stories of two frontline health workers represent the many doctors, nurses, midwives, pharmacists and community outreach worke…
Mobilizing a Community in El Salvador to Cross a River for Better Health
A community leader mobilizes the people in his farming and fishing community in El Salvador to improve their health and overall qu…
AmeriCares Responds to Nepal Earthquake
Stamford, Conn. – April 25, 2015 – AmeriCares is responding to the 7.8-magnitude earthquake that rocked Nepal earlier today, c…
AmeriCares Airlifts Medical Aid to Nepal
Stamford, Conn. – May 5, 2015 – AmeriCares airlifted 14 tons of emergency medical aid to Kathmandu today to resupply hospitals…
Emergency Teams Care for Cyclone Pam Survivors in Vanuatu
Responding to Cyclone Pam, a category 5 storm that slammed the South Pacific islands of Vanuatu, an AmeriCares emergency team supp…
