Americares is positioning staff and medicine in Florida as Hurricane Irma barrels toward the state.

Stamford, Conn.— September 6, 2017— Americares has deployed emergency response experts to Puerto Rico to assist in response efforts for Hurricane Irma. The health-focused relief and development organization also has staff prepositioned in the Dominican Republic and in its office in Haiti, and has a team ready to deploy to Florida.

Green Day will broadcast a special performance via Facebook Live at Facebook.com/GreenDay/ TODAY, Tuesday, Sept. 5, at 4 p.m. EST, to support Americares Hurricane Harvey relief efforts.

Stamford, Conn.— Aug. 31, 2017— Americares rang the New York Stock Exchange Closing Bell ® today to bring attention to Hurricane Harvey relief efforts and the need to support families affected by the storm, including evacuees, vulnerable populations and others displaced by the disaster.

Stamford, Conn.— August 30, 2017— Americares will ring the New York Stock Exchange Closing Bell tomorrow, Thursday, Aug. 31, to bring attention to Hurricane Harvey relief efforts and the need to support families affected by the storm. Michael J. Nyenhuis, president and CEO of the health-focused relief and development organization, will ring The Closing Bell ®.

Stamford, Conn.— August 25, 2017— Americares has deployed an emergency response team to Texas to assist in Hurricane Harvey relief efforts. Now a Category 2 hurricane, Harvey is rapidly gaining strength and is forecast to develop into a Category 3 storm, with winds of at least 111 miles per hour, before making landfall near Corpus Christi.

Stamford, Conn.— Aug. 2, 2017— Americares has made a commitment to provide treatment for tens of thousands of children and adults suffering from malnutrition and the world’s worst cholera outbreak.

Americares has made a commitment to create or expand access to family planning commodities and integrate health education into maternal and child health programs in up to five countries.

Americares India has deployed medical teams to treat survivors of severe flooding in the state of Assam.

President George H.W. Bush and Mrs. Barbara Bush will be honored for their dedication to humanitarian causes at the 30th annual Americares Airlift Benefit in October. The Bushes will be the inaugural recipients of the Bob and Leila Macauley Humanitarian Spirit Award.

To support refugees and displaced people, Americares provides health programs, medicine and medical suppliesto health centers, volunteer medical teams, governments and organizations set up to serve unique groups.

A volunteer medical team supported by Americares and set up in Lebanon to provide free health services to Syrian refugees, gave a young family the care they needed.

Americares, in partnership with the Healthcare Distribution Alliance (HDA), has presented its annual Power of Partnership Award to Endo Pharmaceuticals Inc. and Par Pharmaceutical, operating companies of Endo International plc, in recognition of their outstanding commitment to increasing access to health care around the world.

Americares is deploying an emergency response team to Sri Lanka, where severe flooding and landslides have killed more than 200 people and left thousands homeless. In addition shipments of emergency medicine and relief supplies are underway.

Stamford, Conn.— June 2, 2017— Americares is deploying a response team to Sri Lanka, where severe flooding and landslides have killed more than 200 people and left thousands homeless.

In #HerWords Monica tells the story of how an obstetric fistula took her life away and how the free surgery supported by Americares and Johnson & Johnson gave it back again.

Our emergency team and mobile medical units responded to Peru’s worst flooding in decades, providing immediate health care for survivors along with emergency supplies.

A child in Nigeria gets emergency treatment and a poor family is spared financial hardship when a volunteer medical team supported by Americares Medical Outreach arrives just in time at a local health center.

Americares is responding to a string of deadly storms that tore through Texas, Missouri, Arkansas, Tennessee and Mississippi, spawning tornadoes and floods and leaving a trail of devastation.

Americares announces that longtime supporter Roberta Conroy of Westport, CT, has been elected to its Board of Directors.