June 05, 2015
In Guatemala, a volunteer surgical team supported by AmeriCares Medical Outreach gives Felipe his sight back– one of 60 life-changing eye surgeries performed during their medical trip to provide critical health care to people in need.
May 11, 2015
A volunteer medical team on its regular visit to Bolivia performs a complex surgery for free, giving a young college student the ability to eat normally again and live a productive, healthy life.
May 06, 2015
April 20, 2015
A community leader mobilizes the people in his farming and fishing community in El Salvador to improve their health and overall quality of life through regular visits to the AmeriCares Family Clinic in Santiago de Maria.
April 03, 2015
Forty years ago Bob Macauley, a Connecticut businessman, chartered a plane and helped save the lives of orphan children who had survived a plane crash during the evacuation in the last days of the Vietnam war. i¢â‚¬Å“Operation Babylifti¢â‚¬Â gave rise to AmeriCares, a global organization dedicated to saving lives and restoring health.
March 20, 2015
March 17, 2015
A rare condition and a rare surgery by a volunteer medical team supported with medicine and supplies from AmeriCares Medical Outreach gave a baby in Peru a real smile for the first time in her life.
A woman’s life is saved when a volunteer medical team on an annual visit to El Salvador performs emergency surgery using supplies and medicine donated by AmeriCares– one of over 1,200 medical teams supported through our Medical Outreach last year.
AmeriCares and long-term partner FUSAL conducted a grassroots education and prevention campaign in El Salvador that reached 25,000 inhabitants in coastal communities suffering from a high incidence of the mosquito-borne viruses of dengue and chikungunya.
March 12, 2015
This fate of a husband and wife in a Liberian village is the story of Ebola: the cruel reality and courageous survival that people in Liberia and the other countries of West Africa are facing every day in the many long months of the Ebola outbreak.
February 25, 2015
Two uninsured patients with cardiovascular disease find relief from serious health worries at safety net clinics providing free medicine, including medications donated by AmeriCares.
February 19, 2015
February 10, 2015
The Uganda Spine Surgery Mission, one of 1,200 volunteer medical teams supported by AmeriCares, performed life-changing surgery on a 13-year-old boy in Uganda. The team handles complex surgeries that would otherwise be unavailable, while providing training for local health care professionals.
February 03, 2015
January 29, 2015
A 37-year-old woman faces a life-threatening situation and finds a pathway to a new, healthy life with the help of the Greenville Free Medical Clinic and AmeriCares.
January 11, 2015
Joenne* was playing with her cousin and two older siblings on January 12, 2010, when…
November 25, 2014
AmeriCares India emergency medical teams, facing extremely challenging conditions on the ground, have treated over 15,000…
AmeriCares India Emergency Medical Teams are providing medical care and humanitarian aid to thousands of survivors of record flooding in Jammu and Kashmir. More aid shipments, support for damaged health facilities and longer term recovery efforts are also underway.
November 21, 2014
AmeriCares is recruiting medical professional to fight the Ebola epidemic in Liberia. The recruitment effort is part of a new partnership between AmeriCares and the International Organization for Migration (IOM) and funded by USAID to provide qualified medical personnel and adequate medical supplies for an Ebola Treatment Unit.
