Extreme Weather

Part 2: The worst damage from violent March 2012 tornadoes in Kentucky was centered in the eastern Appalachian foothills. AmeriCares focused its response on communities in this impoverished region, dispatching staff and delivering water, medical aid and relief supplies to help survivors in need. Relief worker, Alex Ostasiewicz shares her thoughts about what she saw during her time in the disaster zone.

Part 1: The worst damage from violent March 2012 tornadoes in Kentucky was centered in the eastern Appalachian foothills. AmeriCares focused its response on communities in this impoverished region, dispatching staff and delivering water, medical aid and relief supplies to help survivors in need. Relief worker, Alex Ostasiewicz shares her thoughts about what she saw during her time in the disaster zone.

When AmeriCares launched its 2011 U.S. Disaster Recovery Grants initiative, emergency response director, Garrett Ingoglia, conducted site visits to assess the health care needs of affected communities in Joplin, Missouri, upstate New York and rural Alabama. Below is his first-hand account of the scale and scope of the challenges these communities still face today.

More than 5 million people are struggling to survive in the wake of a new wave of severe flooding in southern Pakistan, including many families still recovering from the catastrophic 2010 floods. More than 1.8 million people are displaced, facing a harsh winter. Spearheaded by our in-country relief expert Riaz Khalil, AmeriCares has responded with distributions of non-food items and is preparing support for free medical camps to help families in desperate need.

Tens of thousands of families in remote villages of Pakistan lost everything in the devastating July 2010 floods, and more than one year later, many still have little access to adequate health care.