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Making friends and finding healing: Meet Swabra!
Pictured above: Swabra, her mother, and her brother at CURE Kenya Swabra is an 8-year-old happy, enthusiastic, and inquisitive girl. Unfortunately, when she was four years old, Swabra contracted malaria. She was taken…
Traveling from Zimbabwe to Zambia to be healed: Christian finds a way!
Christian is a strong, intelligent, young Zimbabwean man who just so happened to be born with a condition called clubfoot. With this condition, his feet essentially curve in on themselves….
CURE International to launch Zimbabwe’s first children’s orthopaedic hospital
CURE International (CURE), a global provider of surgical treatment for children with treatable disabilities, announced plans to open CURE Children’s Hospital of Zimbabwe, a first-in-the-nation facility providing life-transforming medical care…
The need for children’s medical care in Kenya
Kenya is a beautiful country located in East Africa and is the home of the famous Mount Kenya. Most people travel to Kenya on safari just to see all the…
Conditions we treat: Cleft Lip & Cleft Palate
This blog is part of an ongoing series looking to explain the common conditions CURE treats in ways that all of us non-medical folk can understand. A cleft lip and…
Conditions we treat: Spina Bifida
This blog is part of an ongoing series looking to explain the common conditions CURE treats in ways that all of us non-medical folk can understand. Spina Bifida is the…
Conditions we treat: Hydrocephalus
This blog is part of an ongoing series looking to explain the common conditions CURE treats in ways that all of us non-medical folk can understand. Hydrocephalus is the main…
Hospital ward and place of worship: New CURE Uganda chapel
CURE Uganda has recently completed construction on their new 200 person chapel. There was a groundbreaking and dedication ceremony in December 2019 back when COVID-19 was still just a phrase whispered in…
Patient hostel completed at CURE Zambia
Over the years, we have witnessed an increase in the number of patients seeking services from CURE Zambia. In order for us to meet this need, we began construction of…
Dr. Rick Gardner recognised by the Ethiopian Ministry of Health for paediatric orthopaedic treatments
CURE Ethiopia Medical Director Dr. Rick Gardner recently received recognition from the Minister of Health Dr. Lia Tadesse for his contributions to the growth of orthopaedic treatment in Ethiopia. Dr…