Purpose of the AmeriCares Foundation

AmeriCares has numerous programs that they manage with the support of a number of financial and corporate donors. Their mission is to provide immediate response to emergency medical needs and supports long-term humanitarian assistance programs to those in need the most. They succeed in this via their multitude of programs.

The biggest program is "Global Medical Assistance", which provides medical supplies, medicines and other relief on a continual basis to clinics, hospitals and health institutes in communities in the United States and over forty different countries around the world. They also provide aid to over 150 health clinics in over 35 states that serve the underinsured and uninsured in the U.S and provide through their Program Patient Assistance free prescription medicines throughout the United States.

They also have response teams that provide urgent deliveries of relief aid to those that survive manmade or natural disasters both in the United States and internationally. They send out medicines, bottled water, hospital supplies and water treatments to purify the existing water along with foodstuffs and other urgent aids.

They offer free clinics to three different communities in Connecticut for primary care to those that are uninsured as well as other primary healthcare for others in need. The doctors and nurses providing care in these clinics are volunteering their time and also interpreters when necessary. AmeriCares "Gift-in-Kind" programs allows pharmaceutical companies and manufacturers of medical supplies to donate needed products while the organization raises the needed funding to transport the product to their network of different partners that provide the primary care.

AmeriCares has formed numerous partnerships that allow them to aid more people across the globe and by doing so giving the people who need medical help an opportunity to receive it and live longer and more productive lives. Their model has been tested over time and every donation they receive is maximized by finding the least expensive and most secure way for it to reach its destination. Their distribution network operates its own three warehouses one in India, one in Europe and one in the United States.

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