Americares is delivering emergency medical aid to Somalia, where a prolonged drought has pushed the country to the brink of famine. The organization’s response to one of the worst humanitarian emergencies in decades focuses on treating cholera, a deadly water-borne disease.

A mental health program supported by Americares gave survivors of the Nepal earthquake new ways to cope with the pain and loss after a major disaster.

Stamford, Conn.— March 23, 2017– Americares is responding to historic floods in Peru, where destructive high waters have killed more than 70 people and forced the local government to declare a state of emergency.

Stamford, Conn.— March 21, 2017— Social media entrepreneur and philanthropist Dr. Mikhail Varshavski is headed to El Salvador to work alongside doctors at the Americares family clinic.

Stamford, Conn.— March 9, 2017— Americares is deploying an emergency response team to Madagascar where a deadly cyclone displaced more than 10,000 people this week. Relief workers focused on meeting survivors’ health needs are on their way from Americares offices in the U.S. and Nepal to the African country.

For low-income, uninsured people in Louisiana, the Eunice Community Health Center is their only lifeline to health care access. A farm worker family served by the clinic say it is really a matter of life and death.

Ensuring the poor and most vulnerable have access to quality health care services is central to Americares mission to save lives and improve the health of people affected by poverty or disaster.

Americares is deeply concerned about the recent executive order on immigration and refugees. Years of deadly conflict in Syria has emerged as one of the world’s most urgent humanitarian crises, with more than six million persons displaced within Syria and over two million refugees fleeing the violence into neighboring Jordan, Lebanon and Turkey, including 1 million children.

After Hurricane Maria smashed into Puerto Rico, Dominica, the Virgin Islands and other beleaguered Caribbean islands, Americares emergency team continues response and recovery work.

Americares celebrated the opening of its newest free clinic for the uninsured with a ribbon cutting ceremony in Stamford, Conn., this morning.

A five-year-old girl in the Dominican Republic gets to see for the first time in her life after a volunteer medical team supported by Americares Medical Outreach program performs free cataract surgery.

A rural free clinic that was able to reopen its doors after the Great Flood in Louisiana with the help of Americares could save the life of a truck driver because of a single donated medicine.

A young patient in Guatemala sings his thanks to a volunteer medical team for their eye surgery that transformed his life— a surgery supported by Americares Medical Outreach program.

The Morales family, like thousands of others in El Salvador, has found a way to reach a healthier future through the Americares Family Clinic in Santiago de Maria.

Stamford, Conn.— Dec. 8, 2016— Americares is responding to the 6.5-magnitude earthquake that shook the Indonesian island of Sumatra early Wednesday morning, toppling buildings, destroying roads and sending aftershocks throughout the region.

Stamford, Conn.— December 7, 2016— Americares is delivering medicine and relief supplies to Tennessee for families displaced by the recent wildfires

Stamford, Conn.— Nov. 29, 2016— Volunteers from Voya Financial assembled 1,000 first aid kits at Americares headquarters today, Tuesday, Nov. 29, as part of the nonprofit organization’s #GivingTuesday campaign. More than 40 employees of Voya Financial’s New York City and Windsor, Conn., offices participated.

DEERFIELD, Ill.,— November 29, 2016— Baxter International Foundation and Americares are launching a new oral health project to help combat the negative impact poor oral hygiene can have on patients’ overall health.

Stamford, Conn.— Nov. 3, 2016— Expectant mothers in El Salvador now have access to new, protective apparel that defends against mosquitos that carry the Zika virus.

Stamford, Conn.— Oct. 20, 2016— Americares is deploying a response team to the northern Philippines where Typhoon Haima has left a path of destruction.