To help those whose lives are torn apart when catastrophe strikes in the Americas.

To pay for shipping, transportation, and other logistics services needed to get the aid to the victims and for the emergency relief and recovery efforts.

To raise awareness and help engage the largest Diasporas from the Americas living in South Florida, to help the victims in the native countries.

Project Aid the Americas is a joint effort of different media publications and broad-casting networks in partnership with AmericasRelief Team to help South Floridians respond to those in need should a major disaster occur in the Caribbean or throughout the Americas.

Project Aid the Americas (PAA) is activated by the partners as a result of a disaster and can remain active for up to several weeks depending on the severity of the disaster. The purpose is to raise awareness of not only the needs of disaster victims but of how one can help by collaborating with AmericasRelief Team.

The main partners are CBS4-Neighbors4Neighbors, República, World City Magazine, Univision Radio, Univision-Channel 23 and AmericasRelief Team. Their logos are part of the PAA logo. The PAA logo is used by the media partners in their news stories.

Other media or organizations are welcome to sponsor PAA. Their logos will be used in PSA ads but not as part of the PAA logo.

Univision Communications Inc. (“UCI” or “Univision”) is the premier Spanish-language media company in the United States with a powerhouse portfolio of media assets that not only inform and entertain Hispanics, but provide a vital link to their community.

The integrated media company includes: the Univision Network, one of the top five broadcast networks in America regardless of language and the No. 1 Spanish-language broadcast television network; TeleFutura, the No. 2 Spanish-language broadcast television network in key dayparts; Galavisión, the No. 1 Spanish-language cable network; the Univision Television Station Group with KMEX, the No. 1 television station in the country, regardless of language; Univision Radio, the No. 1 Spanish-language radio group; and Univision Interactive Media, which includes Univision.com, the No. 1 U.S. Spanish-language Internet destination, and Univision Móvil, the industry’s most comprehensive Spanish-language suite of mobile offerings.

Univision is proud to be the voice for Hispanic America, with a connection to the community unlike any other company in the U.S. today.

WFOR-TV (CBS4) has served South Florida in many ways since first signing on the air in 1967, as WCIX-TV, owned by Coral Television.

When WCIX signed on the air, as an independent station it aired mostly re-runs and sitcoms, like the Old Abbot and Costello shows from the 50's. The local owners had been successful in their efforts to convince the federal government to move the license from Islamorada, in the Florida Keys, to the mainland, where it could serve more people. We were assigned Channel Six, and allowed to build a tower in Homestead. We were the first independent, or non-network, station to serve the Miami-Fort Lauderdale area, offering a mix of movies, network re-runs, and original programming.

A few years later, we added the first prime-time newscast in South Florida, Eyewitness News at 10:00. From our studios in a donut-shaped building on Brickell Avenue, we launched a number of firsts; the first South Florida station to broadcast on two channels to improve our service; the first local station to offer programming simultaneously in Spanish and English, to serve South Florida's growing Hispanic population.

Neighbors 4 Neighbors is a non-profit organization originally created in 1992 in the aftermath of Hurricane Andrew by WFOR-TV, CBS4.

The relief effort, "Rebuilding: Neighbors Helping Neighbors," consisted of a 15-line phone bank, staffed 18 hours daily with volunteers and station personnel. News reporters and anchors broadcasting live from the phone bank would tell viewers to call the phone bank if they were storm victims in need of help or if they simply wanted to help. Special reports profiling affected families and volunteer efforts also served to motivate viewers into action.

The response was overwhelming and the phone bank quickly became a tool in assisting those in crisis. As South Florida recovered, CBS4 management opted to continue Neighbors as part of its community service program. Neighbors became an important resource for all individuals and families facing every day crises.