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Help Wanted: CUREkids Coordinator

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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…

We’re Recruiting CUREkids Coordinators

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.

I Want Info!

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Join CUREkids and help Asha

You can help another child who needs life-changing treatment at a CURE hospital. See how.

Asha Mwalimu

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Jan022012

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Mead Minutes: Goodbye 2011. Happy New Year!

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Across the wadi

Greetings from Al Ain!! Earlier today I donned a sweater, grabbed my coffee, and took off for a walk. In Kenya, I would explore the fields and hills nearby, gazing across the expanse of the Great Rift Valley. I do not have this luxury here in the desert. Today I enjoyed what I call ‘wandering the wadi.’ As you leave the front of the house, you can look across the street through the buildings and see date palms. Between you and the palms is the wadi. A wadi is best thought of as a potential river. In the times of rare rains it may fill and flow with water; the remaining times the wadi is a dry, meandering pathway through the town. I find the wadi a quiet place to walk and wander with my thoughts. Read the rest of this entry »

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Dec132011

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Mead Minutes: Join in the work of CURE

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Good morning from Al Ain!! Thursday we moved from the guest house into our own apartment!! Jana and I decided to use the British wording and will call it our ‘flat.’ When we moved from Kenya, we shipped little furniture here. That is a good thing as our books, quilting things, and other items are still locked in Customs storage in Dubai. The saga of this sad plight is another story. We have purchased some household items, and our beds arrived Thursday evening (evening deliveries are common, I am understanding), so we had a place to sleep. The move marked a special time which will make my kids smile—we have a complete set of plates that all match for the first time in many years!! In years past as we entertained groups you could choose your seat depending on the various colors of plates. No more! Well, I imagine as we seek to entertain more I will again break the set consistency and add colorful options. Today, I awoke with a major challenge. I bought a coffee pot but forgot to buy filters!! A paper towel just is not exactly as good. My gold filter is in a box in storage. Oh well, there are stores around town. Read the rest of this entry »

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Nov292011

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Get Well Soon – CUREkids

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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:

  • Go to http://cure.org/curekids/getwell
  • Fill out a personal message to a child currently in treatment at CURE hospital.
  • Optionally, upload pictures to send along with your message.
  • You can even link a YouTube video to your message.
  • Click Send, and your message will be sent our our CUREkids coordinator.
  • We’ll notify when your Get Well message is received.

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.

Send a Get Well message!

Post Script: A Real-Life Example

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

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Nov112011

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Picture of the Week: Get well soon, from CURE Kenya

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Get well soon

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Nov042011

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Picture of the week: In the OR at CURE Kenya

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Sep262011

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Notes from Nashipai: Time Zones

posted by at 6:19 am

Gone are the days of promising to write more frequently…that day has been replaced by this day, the day I promise to write when I feel the desire to. Because let’s be honest, for these posts to be worth anything to either of us, I know on my part it has to be organic, unforced, and impromptu. Trying to schedule my heart to produce something of worth is like trying to get a hummingbird to stop moving – it’s not very effective. Read the rest of this entry »

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Aug272011

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Notes from Nashipai: Move over, E.T.

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Welp, it’s official. I am an alien. And not some fugitive alien. Registered. Thoroughly finger printed. Photographed. Given a card to prove it. That kind. After a fun filled morning at the immigration office in Nairobi, it seems that J.E. can now phone home… you know what I’m saying? Right. I’ll stop. Anyway…

Last Saturday hosted a few highlights for me. First off, it was my three month anniversary here, and I have no shame in stating the cliche observation that time flies. As if my 21 day gap between posts isn’t evidence enough. Sheesh. Secondly, I was asked if I could Skype in with our CURE team while they were at the Purple Door arts and music festival Read the rest of this entry »

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Aug232011

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How does the Drought in East Africa affect CURE?

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This morning, I received a call from a reporter regarding the drought in East Africa. If you haven’t heard the news, ask Google. The reporter’s question was a simple one.

How does the drought affect CURE?

On the surface, you might not have considered the implications. So I thought this was a good opportunity to educate our community on precisely how healing disabled kids is affected by this humanitarian crisis in East Africa.

As a reminder, CURE has two hospitals in countries directly affected by the drought: Kenya and Ethiopia, and there are a number of important issues that CURE hospitals will face over the coming year because of the drought. Read the rest of this entry »

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Aug152011

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Clubfoot treatment at CURE Kenya

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Look how far we’ve come

The week of 8 August 2011, I visited AIC CURE International Children’s Hospital of Kenya in Kijabe. It is the hospital at which I served when my family and I lived in Kijabe from 1997 till 2000. It has changed in numerous ways.

When I started was there, we had five expatriates from North America serving in the capacities of Executive Director, Medical Director, Orthopedic Surgeon, Director of Rehab Department, and Director of General Services. Today, all those positions are filled by Kenyans who are as qualified as any of us from before, if not more so. Read the rest of this entry »

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