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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 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.

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.

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.

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 responded to the strongest cyclone to hit Madagascar in 13 years. In addition to emergency supplies, the team coordinated emergency repairs to two health facilities damaged and rendered inoperable in the storm: a community health center and a TB clinic.

In April 2016, a 7.8-magnitude earthquake struck Ecuador’s northern Pacific coast bringing devastation and death. Americares responded to immediate health needs of survivors and then provided a field hospital to help in the restoration of health services.

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.

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.

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

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.

Our Emergency Manager In Haiti, tells of her team’s journey to Ji©ri©mie to deliver medical aid through a landscape of near total devastation and people struggling to survive.

Americares emergency teams are on the ground in Haiti and in Florida, coordinating with partner organizations to respond to the deadly impact of Hurricane Matthew.

A volunteer surgical team transformed the life of a young man in Liberia, part of a medical trip supported by Americares Medical Outreach program with medicine, supplies and the critical addition of pulse oximeters.