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April is Volunteer Appreciation Month, and CURE would like to say THANK YOU to all our volunteers! Thank you for your dedication to CURE, our patients and their families and thank you for donating your time, skills and money.
In 2010, 746 people volunteered within the network of CURE’s hospitals. Read the rest of this entry »
A mom and her baby at the CURE Uganda hospital
This summer, we have various volunteers who are serving at CURE hospitals in various capacities. Some are on teams; some are individuals. Some stay for a couple of weeks and some for a couple of months.
One of these people is Emily Laning from the U.S., who’s spending a few weeks at our hospital in Uganda. She’s provided her services in various administrative capacities around the hospital. As with most people who serve overseas in the developing world, she has experienced a different culture and a different way of life. Here is how Emily describes the random events of a typical day:
Cassava is this food they have here; it’s almost like big french fries (sort of). Every day for lunch we have white rice, beans, some sort of greens (this spinach type thing, coleslaw, etc.) and then some other sort of starch like cassava. We’ve also started sitting by Florence at lunch, which is really fun. She’s an older woman who is in charge of the nurses and has the best laugh I have ever heard!
The longer days, warmer weather and smells of barbeque wafting through the air are all sure signs that summer has arrived.
For CURE International, the beginning of summer heralds the start of the busy volunteer trip schedule.
Over the next three months, more than 140 people from all over the U.S. will travel to CURE hospitals in places like Honduras, Zambia and Afghanistan. Some will serve in a medical capacity. Others will teach, help with hospital building projects or travel with mobile clinic teams to remote areas.
Kristen Mellinger, a short-term CURE volunteer, with a patient
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