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CURE in the News: Week of December 11, 2011

Tebow CURE Hospital / CURE Philippines

Team Tebow scores touchdown for Davao children’s hospital” from Philippine Daily Inquirer

Tebow to establish children’s hospital in PH” from ABS-CBN News

Tim Tebow and CURE building children’s hospital in Philippines” from ASSIST News Service

Religion Today Summaries” from Crosswalk.com

Tim Tebow and CURE building children’s hospital in Philippines” from Godreports.com

 

CURE Afghanistan

S.C. nurse works with women and children in Afghanistan” from the Columbia Star

 

CURE Malawi

Malawi’s failing economy both hurts and helps CURE hospital” from Mission Network News

 

Press Release: CURE Partners with ToonUps to heal 10 kids

Lemoyne, Penn., Dec. 13, 2011 – Today, ToonUps and CURE International announced a partnership to bring healing to children through the use of Facebook gaming. ToonUps, maker of the popular social good game, A Better World, recently introduced its first “Reach for the Stars” Community Goal. This feature invites players to do good deeds in the real world and report about them in the game. In doing so, players earn dollars for a charitable cause.

CURE International was chosen as the first beneficiary of the Reach for the Stars feature. The initial venture between the two organizations will result in the healing of 10 children in the developing world who have a curable disability.

“Our new Reach for the Stars activities have been designed to promote a sense of goodwill and camaraderie among players. At least once a quarter, we will offer an opportunity for community members to work together to achieve something positive in the real world through activities in the game,” MarySue Hansell, COO of ToonUps, creator of A Better World, explains. “Our members have told us they love the idea of doing good for others and being a part of an online community that is uplifting and values driven.”

Players of the A Better World will be able to see the faces of the exact children they are helping to heal from within the game.

“We are thrilled to bring the positive emotional involvement that players love about A Better World to the real world to benefit children who have little hope of receiving the medical care they need,” said Joel Worrall, Vice President, cure.org.

Players in the game perform actions called “positive expressions” which can take the form of writing encouraging thoughts or sending uplifting messages to other players. If the community generates one million positive expressions, ToonUps will donate $10,000 to CURE.

Anyone can sign into Facebook and participate. The game is free to play; consumers can visit http://abetterworld.com/cure
to sign up. In addition, players can join the CURE community for A Better World (http://cure.org/abetterworld). There, players will be able to follow along with story of each of these kids before, during and after their surgery using Facebook or email.

More About ToonUps
A Better World was created by ToonUps, a digital entertainment company whose mission is to create online games and apps to brighten the world. Since the turn of the century, ToonUps has created a rich array of products in the business, prosumer and consumer marketplaces, all designed with the purpose of uplifting people through optimism, altruism and fun. From social gaming to business training, their innovative content brings these core themes to new markets. ToonUps is headquartered in Wayne, Penn. For more information, please visit http://toonups.com.

CURE in the News: Week of December 4, 2011

CURE Malawi

Malawi News models assist Beit Cure” from The Daily Times

 

CURE Clubfoot Worldwide

Spreading awareness about clubfoot” from The Times of India

CURE Center serves thousands of children with bone diseases

The following was originally published in Spanish by Hoy, a newspaper in the Dominican Republic.

More than 10,000 children with bone problems and disabilities have been treated at the center of CURE International, a Christian organization that has been in the country for seven years, serving a population living in extreme poverty.

Robbie Jackson, the center’s director, is an American who fell in love with the Dominican Republic and decided to make this country her evangelical cause. Read the rest of this entry »

Listen to CURE live on the Dennis Prager Show today!

Give the gift of healing to dozens of kids just like Marjorie

Today, Thursday December 8th, CURE will be featured on the Dennis Prager Show at 9am PST. Listeners will discover more about CURE’s mission and hear stories from our hospitals. Dennis is encouraging donors to give $100 towards life changing surgery for children in CURE’s Central American hospitals.

Each donation will be matched dollar for dollar! Read the rest of this entry »

CURE in the News: Week of November 27, 2011

CURE Hydrocephalus

 

Partnership with the  Tim Tebow Foundation

 

CURE Clubfoot Worldwide

 

CURE Dominican Republic

 

An iPhone App that Heals Kids

Meet Wilson Patton


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.
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CURE Benefits from theExpressionary.com

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.

Partner Your Business with CURE?

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.

2 meals for $1

First, why are meals at a CURE hospital noteworthy?


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.

600,000

That’s the number of meals CURE will serve to our patients and their caregivers in 2012.

$600,000

That’s the cost to provide nutritious meals to our patients and their caregivers for one year.

$1 per meal

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 Donor Challenge Fundraiser

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.

Join the Food Match Challenge

CURE at 2011 National Youth Workers Convention

Recently we joined hundreds of youth leaders and lay youth workers from around the country for the 2011 National Youth Workers Convention (NYWC) in Atlanta.

And just about everyone we spoke with connected with the fact that you can use your Facebook account to login and follow a child’s treatment, giving them the ability to be notified when the child goes in for surgery so they can pray for that child.

We also showed them how our new personal fundraising system works, and how it will give them the ability to find a child in CUREkids, and then set up a fundraiser for that child on our site in their group’s name. Read the rest of this entry »