Annual Report 2010 1 Who We Are 2 Letter from the Founder 3 Letter from the President 4 Countries Receiving Aid in 2010 6 Anatomy of an Airlift: Haiti Earthquake 8 Emergency Response & Post-Emergency Programs 12 Global Medical Assistance 16 Medical Outreach Program 18 Domestic Medical Assistance 20 AmeriCares Free Clinics 22 Photos From Around the World and Across the U.S. 24 Financial Information 26 Our Supporters 28 Board of Directors AmeriCares Annual Report 2010 AmeriCares vision is to help many more people live longer, healthier lives. AmeriCares purpose In times of epic disaster, daily struggle or civil conflict, AmeriCares restores health and saves lives by delivering medicines, medical supplies and humanitarian aid to people in need around the world and across the United States. A Passion To Help. The Ability To Deliver. 1 AmeriCares Annual Report 2010 Letter from the Founder Dear Friends, As you consider this report, please realize that it is your interest and compassion that enable AmeriCares to continue its mission. Many more people are able to reap the benefits and live longer, healthier lives. AmeriCares has accomplished another year of true humanitarian service for which you and I can be justifiably well pleased and grateful. Being on the sidelines now due to health, I’m rewarded with a 360° view of the widening outreach to those who are suffering — skillfully balancing the appropriate level of help at the most critical time in the neediest locations with what will be most urgently needed in the future. From photos and maps within this report, you will sense the gravity of our work through our programs; emergency response, global health initiatives, medical outreach, domestic medical assistance and AmeriCares Free Clinics. In each area, more effective and efficient successes have been achieved through our multiple networks with reliable health care partners. This has been a great strength in our ability to meet ongoing demands for medical relief and respond at a moment’s notice to catastrophe, as we have seen in Haiti. AmeriCares has succeeded in fulfilling its commitments to those in severe need through careful downsizing and extreme acceleration of effort during the harsh financial reality of last year. Enabling AmeriCares to have an expedient way to express and deliver your sympathetic care and concern could not be more important. Thank you. AmeriCares Founders Bob and Leila Macauley In gratitude, Bob Macauley Founder and Chairman AmeriCares Foundation 2 AmeriCares Annual Report 2010 Letter from the President Dear Friends, COMPASSION AND COMMITMENT — compassion for the millions of people who live in extreme poverty with little or no access to basic health care and medicines, and our commitment to help as many people as we can. These values guide AmeriCares each and every day as we work to help many more people live longer, healthier lives. The needs are overwhelming, yet do not deter us. Whether responding to a large scale emergency like the Haiti earthquake or delivering medicines to hospitals and clinics in resource poor countries, we know we are saving lives and restoring hope to millions of people. The pages and photos that follow tell some of the stories of our work this year. While it is impossible to adequately convey the magnitude of our work in words, I hope this report provides a sense of the lives we have touched. I can tell you from my visits to Haiti, India and other places we work that we are making a profound difference. Of course we know we do not and cannot do it alone. Our donors and our partners around the world help make our work possible. This past year, AmeriCares provided program services and relief aid valued at more than $850 million to 97 countries. More than 90% of this assistance went to ongoing programs; the remainder helped us respond to disasters in 23 countries, from Haiti and Chile to emergencies that received less of the world’s attention, and support our Medical Outreach and AmeriCares Free Clinics programs. Here at home, we continued to expand our reach across the United President & CEO Curtis R. Welling States, delivering medicines and medical supplies to over 200 health clinics serving the unin- sured and underinsured and providing free prescription medications for over 100,000 people. The AmeriCares team is committed to delivering the aid that is needed, when and where it is needed. I am deeply grateful for what your support has allowed us to accomplish this year. Sincerely, Curtis R. Welling President & CEO AmeriCares Foundation www.AmeriCares.org 3 AmeriCares Annual Report 2010 Countries Receiving Aid AFGHANISTAN LESOTHO ALBANIA LIBERIA RUSSIA ARGENTINA MALAWI ARMENIA MALI BELARUS BAHAMAS MAURITANIA POLAND BANGLADESH MAURITIUS MOLDOVA BELARUS MEXICO ROMANIA MONGOLIA UZBEKISTAN BELIZE MICRONESIA KOSOVO GEORGIA KYRGYZSTAN BHUTAN MOLDOVA ALBANIA ARMENIA NORTH KOREA UNITED STATES TAJIKISTAN BOLIVIA MONGOLIA CHINA BRAZIL MOROCCO LEBANON AFGHANISTAN BURKINA FASO MYANMAR MOROCCO PALESTINIAN IRAQ TERRITORIES CAMBODIA NEPAL PAKISTAN NEPAL BHUTAN CAMEROON NEW ZEALAND BAHAMAS EGYPT MEXICO CAPE VERDE NICARAGUA INDIA TAIWAN CENTRAL AFRICAN REPUBLIC NIGER MYANMAR VIETNAM DOMINICAN REPUBLIC MAURITANIA LAOS JAMAICA MALI CAPE VERDE CHAD NIGERIA BELIZE BANGLADESH HAITI NIGER PHILIPPINES HONDURAS SENEGAL ERITREA CHILE NORTH KOREA ST. VINCENT and the GRENADINES CHAD GUATEMALA r ST. LUCIA BURKINA NICARAGUA GAMBIA SUDAN CAMBODIA CHINA PAKISTAN EL SALVADOR FASO GUINEA BISSAU COLOMBIA PALESTINIAN TERRITORIES COSTA RICA NIGERIA CENTRAL ETHIOPIA GUYANA COSTA RICA PANAMA AFRICAN SRI LANKA a PANAMA SIERRA LEONE MICRONESIA TOGO REPUBLIC Democratic REPUBLIC PARAGUAY COLOMBIA LIBERIA GHANA CAMEROON OF THE CONGO PERU IVORY COAST UGANDA RWANDA KENYA INDONESIA DOMINICAN REPUBLIC PHILIPPINES ECUADOR ECUADOR POLAND DEMOCRATIC REPUBLIC OF EGYPT ROMANIA THE CONGO TANZANIA SOLOMON ISLANDS EL SALVADOR RUSSIA PERU EAST TIMOR ERITREA RWANDA SAMOA BRAZIL ETHIOPIA SAMOA ZAMBIA MALAWI t BOLIVIA FIJI EAST TIMOR SENEGAL TONGA FIJI SIERRA LEONE ZIMBABWE MAURITIUS GAMBIA SOLOMON ISLANDS PARAGUAY GEORGIA SOUTH AFRICA CHILE SWAZILAND GHANA SRI LANKA SOUTH LESOTHO GUATEMALA ST. LUCIA AFRICA ARGENTINA GUINEA BISSAU ST. VINCENT GUYANA AND THE GRENADINES NEW ZEALAND HAITI SUDAN HONDURAS SWAZILAND INDIA TAIWAN INDONESIA TAJIKISTAN IRAQ TANZANIA IVORY COAST TOGO JAMAICA TONGA Sandwich Islandsla KENYA UGANDA KOSOVO UNITED States OF AMERICA KYRGYZSTAN UZBEKISTAN LAOS VIETNAM LEBANON ZAMBIA ZIMBABWE 4 In 2010, we delivered $850 million in medical assistance to 97 RUSSIA countries. BELARUS POLAND MOLDOVA ROMANIA MONGOLIA UZBEKISTAN KOSOVO GEORGIA KYRGYZSTAN ALBANIA ARMENIA NORTH KOREA UNITED STATES TAJIKISTAN CHINA LEBANON AFGHANISTAN MOROCCO PALESTINIAN IRAQ TERRITORIES PAKISTAN NEPAL BHUTAN BAHAMAS EGYPT MEXICO INDIA TAIWAN MYANMAR VIETNAM DOMINICAN REPUBLIC MAURITANIA LAOS JAMAICA MALI CAPE VERDE BELIZE BANGLADESH HAITI NIGER PHILIPPINES HONDURAS SENEGAL ERITREA ST. VINCENT and the GRENADINES CHAD GUATEMALA r ST. LUCIA BURKINA NICARAGUA GAMBIA SUDAN CAMBODIA EL SALVADOR FASO GUINEA BISSAU COSTA RICA NIGERIA CENTRAL ETHIOPIA GUYANA AFRICAN SRI LANKA a PANAMA SIERRA LEONE MICRONESIA TOGO REPUBLIC COLOMBIA LIBERIA GHANA CAMEROON IVORY COAST UGANDA RWANDA KENYA INDONESIA ECUADOR DEMOCRATIC REPUBLIC OF THE CONGO TANZANIA SOLOMON ISLANDS PERU EAST TIMOR SAMOA BRAZIL ZAMBIA MALAWI t BOLIVIA FIJI TONGA ZIMBABWE MAURITIUS PARAGUAY CHILE SWAZILAND SOUTH LESOTHO AFRICA ARGENTINA NEW ZEALAND Sandwich Islandsla 5 Anatomy Of An Airlift: Haiti Earthquake 6 7 AmeriCares Annual Report 2010 EMERGENCY Response & Post-Emergency Programs AmeriCares Annual Report 2010 Disasters help focus the world’s attention on the urgent need for assistance and 2010 was no exception. From the catastrophic earthquakes that decimated Haiti’s capital city of Port-au-Prince and Chile’s central coastline to less publicized emergencies, AmeriCares delivered lifesaving medical aid. In times of crisis, lives are in the balance and a timely response can mean the difference between life and death. This year AmeriCares responded to disasters in 23 countries saving lives and restoring hope to hundreds of thousands of people. But our work does not stop once the emergency has faded. AmeriCares helps rebuild and restore communities so they can begin the healing process. Often this means rehabilitating clinics and hospitals and providing a reliable supply of medicines and medical supplies. Equally important is helping communities prepare for emergencies before they happen. In India and El Salvador this past year, we provided disaster preparedness training and educational programs for health care providers and emergency responders to better prepare them for the next disaster. “After 48 hours there were no more Haiti medicines. No more pain killers. Within 48 hours of the 7.0-magnitude earthquake No more antibiotics. We had to that struck Port-au-Prince on January 12, 2010, amputate with local anesthesia. an AmeriCares emergency response team was When AmeriCares arrived at the on the ground assessing health care needs. hospital, they were carrying exactly Three days later, our first airlift landed carrying what we needed. Their deliveries of more than $6.7 million in medicines and medical medicines and medical supplies were supplies. The AmeriCares team immediately began putting this lifesaving aid into the hands critical to providing lifesaving care of the doctors and nurses working to treat to people in desperate need.” survivors. We did not let up as we distributed Dr.