Our Hospitals
CURE has a comprehensive approach to providing surgical care for children with disabilities. We support their families and strengthen the capacity of local church and healthcare systems in the countries we serve.
Our Hospitals
CURE has a comprehensive approach to providing surgical care for children with disabilities. We support their families and strengthen the capacity of local church and healthcare systems in the countries we serve.
CURE Children’s Hospitals
CURE International is a global nonprofit network of children’s hospitals providing surgical care in a compassionate, gospel-centered environment. Services are provided at no cost to families because of the generosity of donors and partners like you.
CURE operates a global network of eight pediatric hospitals providing high-quality surgical and intentional ministry care for children with treatable disabilities. CURE supporters help provide services at no cost for families living in poverty.
CURE’S approach to healing goes beyond simply treating symptoms. We minister in word and deed to address the root of the difficulties facing children with disabilities.
Providing children and their families the Christ-centered counseling and support they need
Sharing comfort and encouragement from God’s Word
Providing games, crafts, and story times so children feel loved and cared for
Bringing medical and ministry care to children in remote regions
Training pastors and local churches to serve the disabled community and undo stigmas
Advocating for basic rights and removing barriers to healthcare for people with disabilities
Equipping and partnering with local governments, healthcare organizations, and churches to better serve children with disabilities
From their first meeting with a doctor to diagnostic testing and nutritional support, CURE is committed to ensuring children and families are prepared before, during, and after surgery.
X-rays and lab results help ensure that our doctors have all of the information needed to perform safe surgery.
The children we serve often suffer from malnutrition. We help them reach and maintain a healthy weight.
Medical teams meet with each patient to discuss different treatment options.
Once admitted to the hospital, patients and caretakers are provided with lodging and meals at no cost to the families.
Every day, CURE clinical teams provide life-changing surgery to children suffering from a wide range of disabilities.
After surgery, patients receive check-ups, physical and emotional therapy, and adaptive devices, like wheelchairs and crutches. The path to recovery even includes fun in the playroom.
Helping children improve strength and mobility after surgery
Providing support and monitoring recovery to ensure the most successful surgical outcomes
Providing everything from leg braces to prosthetic limbs to restore mobility to children
Managing pain helps a child quickly recover from their surgery
Providing devices like wheelchairs so children can navigate the world and maintain independence
More healthcare workers are needed to serve the millions of children living with treatable disabilities. We’re training them.
Neurological conditions leave children the most vulnerable. CURE Uganda’s training program has created a pipeline of skilled neurosurgeons.
Medicine and ministry go hand in hand. We’re training local workers to meet surgical needs and share the love of Jesus.
Regions where we serve lack training institutions. We are accredited by the The College of Surgeons of East, Central, and Southern Africa to host residencies and fellowships to train the next generation of surgical specialists.
Excellence requires training. We offer year-long fellowships for doctors who seek specialized training in programs like orthopedics and neurosurgery.
CURE hospitals train surgical residents as part of their orthopedic or pediatric neurosurgical training programs through the government.
About CURE
Motivated by our Christian identity, CURE operates a global network of children’s hospitals that provides life-changing surgical care to children living with disabilities.
CURE Overview
CURE International is a global nonprofit network of children’s hospitals providing surgical care in a compassionate, gospel-centered environment. Services are provided at no cost to families because of the generosity of donors and partners like you.
CURE International is a Christian nonprofit organization that provides surgery and comprehensive care for children with disabilities and works with both the local church and local healthcare systems to better serve them.
Providing surgical and ministry care to 23 countries from eight hospitals across Africa and the Philippines
Living out our mission to heal the sick and proclaim the kingdom of God (Luke 9:2)
Providing comprehensive surgical care in a gospel-centered environment for 25+ years
Honoring CURE’s founders, Dr. Scott and Sally Harrison, who responded to the great physical and spiritual needs of children in places of poverty
Reaching 2x more children suffering with treatable disabilities, guided by our comprehensive strategic plan
You’ve got questions? We have answers!
Explore our recent news, medical advancements, and stories of impact.
CURE medical professionals participate in research to better serve children. Read about it here.
We’re expanding hospitals, launching programs, and reaching milestones. Read about it here.
Read about the incredible children CURE serves every day!
Find our latest press releases, media mentions, and press kit resources.
Get to know the medical, ministry, and administrative colleagues helping kids heal.
CURE is a top-rated nonprofit organization for its transparency, accountability, and effectiveness.
Read the latest fiscal year report showing how CURE stewards generosity.
Committed and compassionate, our medical team provides children in under-resourced areas of the world the excellent surgical and ministry care they deserve.
Trained pastors, counselors, and ministers share the love of Jesus with children and families we serve.
For over 25 years, we have believed that every child matters and every metric should be measured.
Next Steps
Give, serve, and help kids heal with CURE.
Your generosity is life-changing and your trust is important to us. CURE is a top-rated nonprofit organization for its transparency, accountability, and effectiveness.
Your gift will immediately provide a life-changing surgery to a child in need.
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You can help kids heal by gifting life-changing surgical and ministry care at CURE.
Every 3 minutes a child is born with a cleft condition. You can help!
You can help a child run for the very first time by supporting orthopedic surgeries at CURE.
You can provide life-changing reconstructive surgery for children with severe burns.
Help families overcome barriers by covering the cost of a life-changing surgery for their child.
Make a permanent difference in the lives of the children and families CURE serves every day.
To reach more people with information about the life-changing surgeries CURE provides for children with treatable disabilities, we’ve partnered with the following radio stations.
JOY 99.3 has been West Michigan’s source for contemporary Christian music for more than 30 years.
Hosted by Brant Hansen and Sherri Lynn, this syndicated program airs on more than 200 stations and is sponsored by CURE International.
Uplifting and encouraging, 104.9 The River in Columbus, Ohio, broadcasts family-friendly Christian music.
Serving metro Atlanta, The Fish is a commercial radio station that plays contemporary Christian music.
A long-standing CURE partner, WORD FM is a talk radio station based in Pennsylvania.
We’re proud to partner with Riverside, California’s family friendly KSGN 89.7 FM.
Shine 104.9 is 100% community-funded and shares biblical truth and uplifting Christian music in Spokane and northern Idaho.
About CURE
Dr. Scott and Sally Harrison have dedicated their lives to serving children suffering from treatable disabilities.
Dr. Scott Harrison was a successful orthopedic surgeon with a thriving Pennsylvania private practice. Yet, he and his wife, Sally (a former nurse), felt a restlessness in their hearts that led them to pray together daily about what God might have in store.
Before long, an invitation arrived. Scott and Sally said yes to a month-long stint serving at a hospital in desperate need of qualified surgeons in Malawi, one of the world’s poorest countries. Scott was so overwhelmed by the physical needs he saw that when they had the opportunity to return the following year, he said yes. It was becoming clear that God could use them in Africa.
And then the Harrisons received another unexpected invitation. Scott was asked to become CEO of a large but struggling orthopedics company. He was about to decline the offer, preferring to be in the operating room in Malawi, not a boardroom in the US. As they prayed over the decision, the Harrisons sensed God telling Scott to take the job. He successfully led the company for four years until he sold it—working himself out of a job but providing the couple with the financial resources and time to once again return to Africa.
Praying about their next move, they felt God calling them to something bigger than serving as medical missionaries in a hospital. Instead of serving in one hospital, they would build a network of hospitals in the world’s most impoverished countries. The hospitals would be stocked with necessary equipment, staffed with world-class surgeons, and ready to serve children with disabilities. They officially established CURE International in 1996.
Scott and Sally opened CURE’s first hospital in Kijabe, Kenya, in 1998. Recognizing that no charitable organization had the resources on its own to reach the world’s millions and millions of children with treatable disabilities, the Harrisons committed that every CURE hospital would be a teaching hospital, equipped to train locals to be the next generation of national surgeons and healthcare professionals in their countries.
And because training disciples of Jesus was equally important as providing surgeries and equipping surgeons, the Harrisons established that CURE’s emphasis on spiritual care would be just as important as the emphasis on medical care. (Learn about CURE’s approach to ministry.)
The Harrisons gave a lifetime of love, care, and even personal finances to growing CURE. Friends joined in supporting the mission, and the network of charitable children’s hospitals expanded to Uganda. Hospitals then opened every few years across Africa and Asia, providing life-changing surgeries and sharing the love of Jesus with children in need. (Explore CURE’s hospitals.)
In 2012, as CURE approached 2 million patients treated, Scott and Sally passed the torch to new leadership. Reflecting on their journey, Scott said, “During my years with CURE, I’ve witnessed 140,000 children changed by reconstructive surgery that corrected their disabilities. Even better, I’ve seen nearly the same number of people make confessions of faith, begin to regularly attend church, and spread the good news of what they experienced to hundreds of thousands of friends, family members, and even a few enemies.”
Scott and Sally’s decision to say yes to God’s call to devote their lives to helping kids heal has had an eternal impact on generations of children, families, and communities. (See our impact.) That impact continues today. While CURE International has grown into a global network of eight hospitals across Africa and Asia, the mission is unchanging: to heal the sick and proclaim the kingdom of God.
5.3 million+
patient visits
330,000+
surgeries completed
1.7 million+
people reached with the gospel
279,000+
decisions for Christ
Providing expert surgical care and ministry support to children living in poverty around the world through permanent hospitals.
We're changing the lives of vulnerable children—one surgery at a time—since 1998.
Providing surgical and ministry care across Africa and the Philippines.
Living out our mission to heal the sick and proclaim the kingdom of God (luke 9:2).
Our board is committed to helping kids with CURE.
9 million children suffer with treatable disabilities in the countries we serve. Here's our plan to reach them.