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The CURE blog turns 2 years old

181,147

That’s the number of words that have been published on the CURE Blog since September 24, 2009. By comparison, that’s equivalent to a 650+ page novel. If you’ve been here for all 181,147 words, give us a shout out by leaving a comment.

Just over 2 years ago, CURE decided to launch a WordPress blog as a platform to communicate in an authentic and timely way from the places all around the world where CURE works to the people who help make that possible: our supporters, fans, and staff.

A Screenshot of the original CURE blog

A Screenshot of the original CURE blog

In those 2 years, we’ve gone from talking to you just a few times a month to almost 60 bloggers throughout CURE (we’re always looking for more), telling the different stories of CURE’s work from a dozen or more countries throughout our network of hospitals and programs. We’re glad to be able to talk to you more frequently, and hopefully the blog has allowed you to gain a larger perspective on CURE’s mission to the children and families we are privileged to serve.

Who’s work is it?

At CURE, we regularly remind ourselves that this work – the work we have all dedicated our lives to – is first and foremost God’s work. God is the one who is healing bodies and changing lives everyday, and we are all privileged to be a part of what God is already doing in the world.

You who read this blog on a regular basis, share CURE’s story with others, volunteer with CURE, work for CURE, and donate your attention, gifts, or voice are a part of that as well. Together, we all make up the community of folks “healing the sick and proclaiming the kingdom of God” that is CURE, and we’re sincerely grateful to you for making the work of CURE International possible.

We look forward to even greater things in this year on the blog and throughout CURE. Thanks and have a great weekend.

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CURE.org featured on SlideDeck blog

I was given the opportunity to write a post for the SlideDeck blog.  SlideDeck is one of the technologies we used in building the CURE.org website.  Not only was I able to share what I’ve learned with the SlideDeck community, but I was also able to spread word about who CURE is and what we do!

Read the blog post here.

Revisiting David

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). David Njuguna closeup_0004 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.

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GO Team Uganda Blog

Maureen Sloan, who’s part of our GO Team in Uganda, has been keeping a blog of the team’s activities. 

Go here to read more. 

Everyone has a great weekend.

Gary Roark Writes from Niger

We’ve gotten a lot of great stuff from the field this week.  We, of course, want to make sure we share it with you!  Dr. Gary Roark, CURE Niger’s medical director, took some time from his preparations for the hospital’s grand opening this fall to send an update last Sunday:

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Dr. Gary Roark and his wife, Karina

Good afternoon!  We just arrived back from a church service in Niamey, had some lunch, and I wanted to sit down to write an update before I have some quiet time.

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Addis at Last and the Rainy Season…

Hello, Stiv Twig, CURE’s Africa intern, with another update…

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Mohammed with his mother and younger brother

Truth be told, with moving around so frequently, it seems I go in and out of various rainy seasons all the time.  Each CURE hospital is located in an area of the respective country which has, to my tastes, really decent weather.

After three weeks in Zambia and another hectic trip around the Copper Belt in north-central Zambia, seeing five patients for follow-ups, I hit the road again.  (Technically speaking, I flew, but you get the point.)

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