AmeriCares Free Clinics opens a new mobile medical clinic in Southeastern Connecticut to provide free quality healthcare for under and uninsured individuals. AmeriCares airlifts 81,000 pounds of emergency and other relief materials. 16,000 pounds of medicines and medical supplies were immediately shipped to the 100,000 who were left homeless in Madagascar after Cyclone Hudah made landfall. Five years of alternating floods and drought have crippled North Korean children. AmeriCares responded with 13,000 pounds of pediatric medicines, antibiotics and infant formula.
Severe floods strike Cambodia and Vietnam.
AmeriCares organizes an emergency response plan with medicines, nutritionals and hospital supplies. Political instability and drought conditions continue to plaque the Horn of Africa. AmeriCares sends 72,000 pounds of life-saving medical supplies to Ethiopian clinics. AmeriCares responds to recent tensions in the Middle East by sending over 100,000 pounds of vital medical supplies to Lebanon, Israel, the West Bank and Gaza. AmeriCares sends 13 truckloads of bottled water in response the massive spill of liquefied coal waste in Kentucky.