Over the past week, Direct Relief has delivered 555 shipments of requested medical aid to 47 U.S. states and territories, and to 22 countries worldwide. The shipments contained 9.8 million defined ...

Direct Relief’s headquarters in Santa Barbara, California, gives a unique perspective on the challenges and opportunities within the state. This local base allows Direct Relief to make targeted ...

Since Hurricane Lowell’s high winds and heavy rain tracked through the Pacific, residents on Kaua’i have experienced severe flooding, downed trees and power lines, and destruction to homes and ...

After the August 26th floods in Nepal, reports reaching Gordon Willcock in Kathmandu described families who had lost more than their homes. Willcock, Direct Relief’s Asia Pacific regional director, ...

Over the past week, Direct Relief has delivered 398 shipments of requested medical aid to 45 U.S. states and territories, and to 28 countries worldwide. The shipments contained 12.9 million defined ...

More than 155,000 acres in Oklahoma have burned due to multiple fires in the western part of the state. About half of the state is currently under a red flag warning due to dry conditions. Oklahoma ...

When disaster strikes, we tend to measure response in hours. How quickly can first responders reach affected communities? How quickly can medicines arrive? How quickly can damaged health facilities ...

The driest conditions in a decade have spawned wildfires across parts of Georgia and Florida, destroying at least 87 homes and forcing thousands to evacuate. Much of the region is under extreme ...

WASHINGTON, D.C. — Suzie Foley compared the start of the National Association of Free & Charitable Clinics to Hamilton’s ‘In the Room Where It Happened.’ “There was a handful of people sitting around ...

After a 7.4-magnitude earthquake struck western Colombia on August 10, terminal damage at the city of Pereira’s airport was enough to stop commercial flights, but not the smaller planes carrying ...

Fourteen tons of requested medical aid arrived in Kathmandu, Nepal, over the weekend to support communities impacted by last month’s flash floods. More than 1,300 people were killed when catastrophic ...