USAID posted the following article about maternal care in Afghanistan and the great work that’s being done through USAID efforts in that country (of which CURE is a key figure) to improve the health and lives of moms in Afghanistan.
Do you blog, or Tweet, or use Facebook for more than just Farmville?
Do you know your way around a digital camera?
Have you ever traveled overseas as part of a short-term missions experience?
Are you smart and organized?
Do you have a heart for the kids and families CURE serves?
Are you an aspiring photo journalist?
Do you have a desire to do something more meaningful with your first year out of college than attending corporate training?
Have you ever considered taking one year of your life to serve God overseas?
If you can say yes to some of those questions, are hard working, and ready for the opportunity of a life-time, then have I got a job for you…
CURE is recruiting young adults who have qualifications as bloggers and photographers to serve in our hospitals as CUREkids Coordinators. A CUREkids Coordinator is a compensated position within CURE International that serves on a one year term overseas. They live and work at (or near) a CURE hospital in one of the countries in which we serve as a full-time blogger and story-teller, connecting people in the US with the kids we treat in our hospitals through words, pictures, and videos using the tools we’ve built at cure.org/curekids. CURE provides for your housing, living expenses, training, and the tools you need to tell the stories of our CUREkids.
We’re always on the lookout for candidates for the future, but we’re urgently seeking a person to replace our CUREkids Coordinator in Kenya for the beginning of April. If that’s you, click the button below to get more information and start the process or send your resume and references to curekids@cure.org.
Last Thursday evening, we received some exciting news that we want to share. If you remember back on November 27, 2011, we told you that CURE.org was nominated for a Pixel Award in the category of best non-profit website for 2011. There were two potential awards to win: a judges award and a people’s choice award that involved public online voting. We asked you, our audience of loyal supporters, volunteers, and fans, to vote for CURE.org early and often.
I’m pleased to announce that CURE.org won the judges choice as best non-profit website. We’re thankful to receive this award, and we congratulate the other nominees that we were up against. There have been some pretty awesome winning sites in the Pixel Awards’s 6-year history, and we’re grateful to now be on that list of recipients.
But that’s not all…
Do you live in Central Pennsylvania?
Would you like to volunteer some of your time to help kids in CURE hospitals?
Would you like to join the CURE.org team?
We’re looking for a volunteer to help organize and run the online CURE Store. If you don’t know already, the CURE Store has items designed by CURE or made in the countries in which we serve for sale online at http://store.cure.org. The money from those gifts is used to support the work of CURE to provide life-changing surgeries for the kids we serve. Read the rest of this entry »
If you Google Wilson Patton, you’ll see that this 17-year-old is the world record holder for longest time spent on a balance board. But that’s not why we’re mentioning him on the CURE blog.
Wilson has another first that we think is even more impressive; he’s the first person to create a iPhone App whose profits are being donated to heal kids through CUREkids!
A few months ago, Wilson emailed CURE with an idea. He wanted to build an iPhone game and donate the money he earned from the game to help kids through CUREkids. As a software guy, I was intrigued by the concept, and as a part of CURE, I was ecstatic to see such an innovative idea to Do for Kids Who Can’t. The result is Flying Meatballs.
Read the rest of this entry »
One of the wonderful aspects to Internet is not only the vast array of new business opportunities that the information superhighway provides, but also the ability that businesses have to construct their business models to create social good.
The Expressionary, a new Atlanta-based specialized gift company with a charitable purpose, is just such a business, and they have chosen CURE International as one of their founding charitable organizations.
“Think of this product as the ‘Expressive Dictionary,’” says William Mehserle, president of parent company, Expression-ary, LLC. “Most people can easily think of two to four words that best describe someone closest to them, but they struggle for the deeper expressions that truly signify that person and their relationship. The Expressionary will eliminate that struggle.”
For every product sold, The Expressionary, donates a minimum of 10 percent to one of its partner charities. Each purchaser is able to select one of the company’s partner non-profits to which his or her contribution will go.
CURE International is one of the first charities that The Expressionary has chosen to support.
We’re thankful to have businesses like The Expressionary working to support and advocate for the children and families we serve at CURE International.
If you’d like to discuss how your business can partner with CURE International, email us, and let’s start a conversation. We’d love to have you as part of the CURE family.
Most hospitals in the developing world don’t provide meals for their patients. Instead, families are expected to provide for their loved ones needs, regardless of their means. At CURE, we do things differently. Our patients need a nutritious diet to help them before and after surgery, and we provide meals for our patients and their caregiver.
In this post in our Gift of Healing series, we’re talking about food, and I have a few interesting numbers to share with you.
That’s the number of meals CURE will serve to our patients and their caregivers in 2012.
That’s the cost to provide nutritious meals to our patients and their caregivers for one year.
For those of you doing the accounting at home, that comes out to $1 per meal. $1 per meal is a pretty good bargain. There’s not much you can get for $1 these days, and to prove it, this week, I kept a list of all the things I could buy for $1.
- 2/3 of a soda at my favorite burrito joint
- a pack of gum
- 1/4 gallon of diesel in my VW Golf
- a personal-sized bag of chips
- 8 olives at the grocery store olive bar
You get the point. There’s not much you can buy for $1, so the fact that you can provide a nutritious meal to a CURE patient for $1 is pretty cool, especially when you think about how many things we buy throughout the week for far more than $1.
A generous CURE family has a challenge to offer you. They’ve offered up a $300,000 match for Food in CURE hospitals. That means that right now, every $1 you give in support of Food for CURE patients and caregivers will be matched.
$20 will provide 40 meals. $50 will provide 100 meals. $100 dollars will provide 200 meals. You get the point. Your gift will be doubled, and you’ll join a community of people providing food and care to CURE patients.
2 meals for $1 – just another way you can be a part of healing the sick and proclaiming the kingdom of God with CURE.
Watch the Get Well video here: http://www.youtube.com/cureinternational#p/u/7/fVLSJO8ojVk
CUREkids has brought the work of CURE to your inbox and Facebook wall through the lives of the kids we’re privileged to serve, but now our kids want to hear from you. That’s why we’re pleased to announce CUREkids Get Well messages!
Now your family has the chance to share words of encouragement with a child in a CURE hospital. Here’s how:
Get Well messages are a great new way to become part of the ministry of CURE International. They’re also a wonderful opportunity to connect your own children to kids thousands of miles away that need their love and encouragement.
So what are you waiting for?
There are kids in CURE hospitals that need your encouragement today.
Last week, I sent this get well message to a young girl at CURE Kenya named Kiloret and received the following reply this weekend.
Hi Mr. Worrall –
My name is Jenny. I just wanted to thank you for taking the time to send a Get Well message to Kiloret. Her mom seriously couldn’t stop thanking me, and her and the other Maasai people in the room kept raving about your picture with Eliana…
Kiloret, meet Joel & his baby Eliana
I’m pretty sure her mom loves you…she couldn’t stop saying “Asante”. And the guy on the right is our surgery tech, Peter, who graciously translated your message into Maasai…how awesome is that!?
Thanks so much for investing in Kiloret & CUREkids. You’ve blessed Kiloret and her family in a way I can’t actually express…
His,
Jenny England ::: CUREkids Coordinator – Kenya
CURE International
“If you spend yourselves in behalf of the hungry and satisfy the needs of the oppressed,
then your light will rise in the darkness, and your night will become like the noonday.”
Isaiah 58:10
We’re pleased to announce that cure.org has been nominated for a Pixel Award in the category of Best Non-Profit website. There are two different awards for which we are eligible. The first is determined by a panel judges between the six sites in our category. The second is a “People’s Choice” award, where your votes are tallied.
Public voting for the “People’s Choice” is open now until December 18, and anyone is eligible to vote once per day. Winners will be announced later in December.
You can vote for CURE at this address: http://www.pixelawards.com/nom_win_2011.php#Non-Profit.
We’ve also created a calender reminder that you can download if you’d like to vote for us every day. It’s a great, simple way that you can help promote CURE.
Established in 2006, the Pixel Awards takes a fresh look at the best on the web. They are the cutting-edge website award, annually honoring compelling sites that have shown excellence in web design and development. Sites are submitted in 24 diverse categories, including our unique Agency, Geek, and Green categories. Any site can enter. Only 24 exceptional sites will win.
Today, Christmas is exactly one month away, and if you’re on my Christmas list, there’s a good chance you’re going to get a hat.
No need to thank me yet. Wait until Christmas morning. I promise, it will be worth it. Because this hat is going to change lives.
Every year at Christmas, we run around looking to buy each other something that is practical and meaningful and (ideally) something that the recipient won’t return the next day. We want our gifts to have purpose because we care deeply for the people to whom they’re given.
At CURE, I think we have a present to fit that tall order, and it starts with this hat.
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