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Restore a Child’s Smile During CURE’s Smile Challenge. We’ll DOUBLE Your Gift!
Your Smile Challenge gift sponsors cleft surgery for a child and restores their ability to eat, speak, and thrive. And today, your gift can go twice as far through our $62,000 Match
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164/500 Surgeries Sponsored
Every three minutes, a child is born with a cleft lip or palate. Without treatment, this condition can affect their ability to eat, speak, and be fully accepted in their community.
Across CURE’s permanent network of children’s hospitals in Africa and the Philippines, children receive surgical care in places where it would otherwise be unavailable due to location or cost. Each child receives the physical healing they need on the outside, while each family experiences the spiritual care they need on the inside.
Cleft surgery restores a child’s ability to eat, speak, and live with dignity. At the same time, families are cared for, encouraged, and introduced to the hope of the gospel, often for the first time.
The need is great, and the mission to provide surgery and share Jesus is already happening every day inside CURE hospitals. Our operating rooms are ready, our surgeons are prepared, and children are waiting for the surgical care they need to restore their smiles.
That is why we are hosting the CURE Smile Challenge to fund 500 cleft surgeries by May 31.
Right now, every dollar you give will be matched, up to $62,000, doubling the number of children who can receive life-changing surgery. A gift of $1,000 can now help provide surgery for two children, bringing both physical healing and the hope of the gospel to families in need.
When you give during the Smile Challenge, your gift also goes further through our partnership with Smile Train, which provides a portion of the funds for every cleft surgery CURE completes.
Here is what your Smile Challenge gift can do specifically:
- A gift of any amount helps bring a child closer to surgery
- $1,000 DOUBLES to sponsor two life-changing cleft surgeries
- $2,000 DOUBLES to sponsor surgery for four children
- $5,000 DOUBLES to help even more children receive the full care they need to heal and thrive
Would you step forward during CURE’s Smile Challenge while your gift is matched to help fund 500 surgeries by May 31?
Each gift helps ensure more children receive surgeries to restore their smiles and the love of Jesus to restore their hearts.
Your gift will go even further thanks to our generous partner, Smile Train, which provides a portion of the funds for every cleft surgery CURE completes.
Each one of these precious lives has been
improved by the help and generosity of
our supporters.
Abdi
Amen
Chris
Abdi
Amen
Chris
A cleft lip is a split in the upper lip, and a cleft palate is a gap in the roof of the mouth. When a child is born with a cleft lip or palate, the ramifications are more than cosmetic. They can be sad, scary, and life-shattering in the areas of the world where we serve.
- Children born with a cleft condition are often shunned by society, mocked at school, or even abandoned by their families
- They are more prone to infections
- Difficulty eating leads to malnutrition, poor development, or worse
- They suffer speech delays, preventing them from connecting with others
- Families suffer too—cultural shame on the parents translates to lost opportunities, lost dignity, and lost hope
Together with CURE, friends like you are healing kids with cleft conditions, sharing the love of Jesus with them and their families, and filling them with hope.
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