Stamford, Conn. – April 25, 2024 – Americares, the health-focused relief and development organization, has welcomed Josaphat Mshighati as country director of Americares Tanzania.

Stamford, Conn. – April 12, 2024 – The 2024 Americares Airlift Benefit hosted by award-winning actor and producer Bryan Cranston raised $1.9 million to improve health worldwide.

In Gaza, even newborn babies have little chance for a healthy life. While normally, new mothers would be discharged from the hospital with formula and diapers

April 2, 2024 We are devastated and heartbroken for the families, friends and colleagues of the World Central Kitchen aid workers who were killed while selflessly working to alleviate suffering in Gaza.

Stamford, Conn. – March 21, 2024 – Award-winning actor and producer Bryan Cranston—best known for his iconic roles in “Malcolm in the Middle and “Breaking Bad”—will host the 2024 Americares Airlift Benefit on Thursday, April 11, in New York City.

Stamford, Conn. – Feb. 22, 2024 – Since the war in Ukraine catapulted the region…

For Ehsan* and his family in Aleppo, Syria, the powerful earthquake that struck Türkiye and northern Syria in February 2023 felt like “judgement day.” At first, they thought the jolting was yet another airstrike in Syria’s ongoing civil war but ran from the house when they realized it was a quake.

The Hawaii wildfires, the deadliest in the U.S. in more than a century, killed at least 97 people, displaced thousands and caused an estimated $5.6 billion in damage. The disaster hit especially hard for people experiencing homelessness in Maui, compounding the difficulties they already faced to survive.

Stamford, Conn. – Jan. 30, 2024 – Americares has joined CMA CGM Foundation’s Containers of Hope program, which will transport humanitarian aid for the health-focused relief and development organization for one year.

Stamford, Conn. –Jan. 18, 2024 – Americares, the health-focused relief and development organization, is pleased to announce the election of Jean-Marc Laouchez to its Board of Directors. His three-year term began Jan. 1.

In the first 100 days since the violent and destructive war escalated in Israel and Gaza, Americares has worked around the clock to address the most urgent health needs of families and individuals affected by the crisis.

Stamford, Conn. – Dec. 20, 2023 – Americares, the health-focused relief and development organization, has welcomed Elena Ateva as its new climate and disaster resilience director. Elena leads the design and direction of innovative global programming that prevents or addresses the health impacts of climate change.

Americares has been named the 9th largest charity in the United States by Forbes. The 2023 list of America’s Top 100 Charities is ranked by private donations. Americares, the health-focused relief and development organization, brought in $1.35 billion in donations—both financial gifts and product donations—during the most recently reported fiscal year.

Americares today announced that it was awarded $5 million by the U.S. Department of State’s Bureau of Population, Refugees and Migration to continue to meet the health needs of the thousands of Venezuelans and other migrants entering Colombia daily in search of a better life.

Open Call by 290 organizations from 50 countries for an Immediate Ceasefire in the Gaza Strip and Israel to Prevent a Humanitarian Catastrophe and Further Loss of Innocent Lives

September 28, 2022: “I looked down the street and saw this big black thing coming — it was literally a wall of water,” says Jo, a retired nurse who lives in Cape Coral, Florida.  Minutes later, the filthy storm surge from Hurricane Ian swept into her home, swirling around her ankles, and Jo ran through the flood to safety at her neighbor’s elevated house.

Americares and the Center for Climate, Health and the Global Environment at Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health (Harvard Chan C-CHANGE), today announced health clinics in Arizona, Florida and Louisiana will pilot a program to protect the most vulnerable patients from the health impacts of climate change, including extreme heat.

Americares is training more than 350 school teachers, social workers, counselors, psychologists and administrative staff to better identify, assess and respond to the mental health needs of students dealing with the psychological effects caused by major storms. The Americares Mental Health and Psychosocial Support team based in San Juan began the trainings in five schools across Bayamón, Morovis, Naranjito, Orocovis and Toa Alta.

Stamford, Conn. – Sept. 13, 2023 – Americares and Quest Diagnostics, with the Quest Diagnostics Foundation, are teaming up to provide no-cost diagnostic services and expanded telehealth services to free and charitable clinics across the United States to reduce health disparities in underserved communities.

Stamford, Conn. – Aug. 30, 2023 – Americares is preparing to deploy an emergency response team to Florida to respond to Hurricane Idalia, which made landfall today as a Category 3 storm along Florida’s Gulf Coast. An Americares emergency response team is expected to be on the ground in Florida by the end of the week.