Stamford-headquartered Americares reported that has offered roughly $114 million in aid to Ukraine in the year and a half since Russia”™s invasion.
Since the onset of the invasion, Americares has provided its Ukraine-based partner organization Razom Health with over 50 tons of medicines and medical supplies valued at over $26 million. Americares also provided Razom Health with more than $250,000 in emergency funding to purchase hospital-grade generators for medical facilities in Ukraine.
Americares also shipped more than 460 tons of medicines and relief supplies valued at more than $105 million to 35 partner organizations in Ukraine since the start of the war, as well as 100 emergency grants valued at more than $4.5 million to 61 organizations supporting those affected by the war in Poland, Romania, Slovakia and Ukraine. The organization also supported volunteer medical teams traveling to Poland, Romania and Ukraine with more than $4.4 million worth of donated medicines and supplies.
“As we mark another grim anniversary in this long-running humanitarian crisis, it”™s clear that more work remains, and we are committed to supporting the health needs of affected families, host communities and those who have been internally displaced by the war,” said Americares Ukraine Response Field Team Lead Jake Wheeler.
