The normally serene courtyard bustles with activity…A bearded man pulls his camera out of his large equipment bag…Nearby a small group of people converses in what sounds like three different languages…Chickens scurry to stay out of the way…Less concerned is Rocky the dog, who loiters casually under a tree.
Germania after her surgery
Lemoyne, Pa.; Schaumburg, Ill.; and Merrifield, Va.; August 23, 2010: Motorola, CARE and CURE International today announced that the Motorola Foundation, the philanthropic arm of Motorola, is donating funds totaling $200,000 to the two aid organizations to support education and healthcare programs in Afghanistan.
Greetings CURE Community!
For those of you who are on Facebook (and given that there are over 500 million people on Facebook, that’s probably a good many of you), I wanted to take a moment to highlight one of the important features on the new CURE.org – the ability to sign into CURE.org through your Facebook account. Here’s how it works.
On any page on CURE.org, you can click on banner at the top of the page (see the graphic above) to bring up a login box. (see the graphic below).
From there, you can click on the Facebook button and a popup will appear from Facebook, asking you to login. Once you enter your Facebook username and password and click “Login”, the page will reload and you’ll see a new set of links at the top of the page.
Congratulations! You’ve logged into CURE.org using your Facebook account. Don’t you feel so “tech-savvy”?
Now, for the most important question: why should you login to CURE.org. Here’s a list of important reasons.
Hopefully that was informative and helpful. If you have a question or comment, I’d love to hear back from you in the comment form below or click “Email Joel Now” to send me a message directly.
God bless and have a good weekend!
CURE International designated Friday, August 13th as a day of remembrance and tribute to Dan Terry, friend of CURE and one of the 10 medical aid workers killed earlier this month in Afghanistan.
Friends shared memories, photos and stories of Dan on the CURE blog throughout the day. If you did not have a chance to read some of the inspiring posts in tribute to Dan, you can do so here.
This past week, having completed my second three week period in Malawi, I returned to Kenya. I am actually on my way (over two weeks) back to the USA to the head office and to regroup before returning to consult and guide a new project through infancy in Malawi (more on that later). 
On my long return trip, over the course of two weeks, I was to go to Kijabe and the CURE hospital there for one week and then bus to Uganda and Mbale’s CURE hospital for my final few days there prior to flying out of Entebbe, Uganda. While in Kijabe, I organised with Pastor Amandui, my colleague there in collecting stories, to go and see a child named David. We had visited him once before at the New Hope Children’s Center, an orphanage in Limuru, about 13 miles from Kijabe. He was taken in there along with his mother after some serious bouts of violence across Kenya (following the elections in 2008) that left him without a father and two brothers.
Stuart Palmer, the executive director of our hospital in Malawi, talks about CURE’s work in this country…..
I came across this photo of Dan this morning. When I took this picture, one afternoon in Kabul, I remember thinking that it captured pretty well the essence of the man who was Dan Terry. There is a youthful, almost boyish grin on his face, coupled with eyes that look for every opportunity to seize the day. I remember Dan once telling me that “Afghans live in a soup of ambiguity.” Dan loved that soup as well, and was especially wired to withstand a steady diet of it.
In our conversations about how to best love the people of Afghanistan, Dan would speak of a “disciplined opportunism” … a way of moving through the chaos of life looking for ministry touch points that present themselves, especially within the unorganized margins, even in the short periods of boredom in life.
Dan gave himself permission to “be” with the people of Afghanistan, and he suggested that within the CURE hospital, we adopt this practice as we seek to know and love our patients and their families.
Our brother Dan opened himself up to being an expression of God’s love amidst the people of Afghanistan, the same love that compelled Jesus to walk the way of the cross, a cross that Dan also embraced daily.
God so loved Afghanistan, that he sent Dan Terry, a man compelled by that divine redemptive love, passionate to serve its people in the remote areas where few would go.
Dan’s life was not taken away from him in Badakhshan… he freely laid it down daily for the people of Afghanistan, to bring honor and glory to his God.
CURE was pleased to be the featured charity at the Harrisburg Senators game on August 6th. The Senators have donated baseballs and t-shirts to our patients in the Dominican Republic and it was great to continue our relationship with the Senators in this way.
CURE was featured in a video presentation at the beginning of the game and a CURE representative threw out the first pitch. Noel Lloyd, CURE communication specialist, shared with the crowd about CURE before the game and was interviewed on the game’s radio broadcast. All around, it was a fun night and a great way to raise awareness for CURE within our local community.
Thanks to all our area supporters who joined CURE out at the game!
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