Press Releases

Stamford, Conn.— August 30, 2017— Americares will ring the New York Stock Exchange Closing Bell tomorrow, Thursday, Aug. 31, to bring attention to Hurricane Harvey relief efforts and the need to support families affected by the storm. Michael J. Nyenhuis, president and CEO of the health-focused relief and development organization, will ring The Closing Bell ®.

Stamford, Conn.— August 25, 2017— Americares has deployed an emergency response team to Texas to assist in Hurricane Harvey relief efforts. Now a Category 2 hurricane, Harvey is rapidly gaining strength and is forecast to develop into a Category 3 storm, with winds of at least 111 miles per hour, before making landfall near Corpus Christi.

Stamford, Conn.— Aug. 2, 2017— Americares has made a commitment to provide treatment for tens of thousands of children and adults suffering from malnutrition and the world’s worst cholera outbreak.

Americares has made a commitment to create or expand access to family planning commodities and integrate health education into maternal and child health programs in up to five countries.

President George H.W. Bush and Mrs. Barbara Bush will be honored for their dedication to humanitarian causes at the 30th annual Americares Airlift Benefit in October. The Bushes will be the inaugural recipients of the Bob and Leila Macauley Humanitarian Spirit Award.

Americares, in partnership with the Healthcare Distribution Alliance (HDA), has presented its annual Power of Partnership Award to Endo Pharmaceuticals Inc. and Par Pharmaceutical, operating companies of Endo International plc, in recognition of their outstanding commitment to increasing access to health care around the world.

Stamford, Conn.— June 2, 2017— Americares is deploying a response team to Sri Lanka, where severe flooding and landslides have killed more than 200 people and left thousands homeless.

Americares announces that longtime supporter Roberta Conroy of Westport, CT, has been elected to its Board of Directors.

Stamford, Conn.— April 5, 2017– Americares is delivering emergency medical aid to Somalia, where a prolonged drought has pushed the country to the brink of famine.

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.

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.

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

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.