This is it.. im moving !!!!

so i have very very very exciting news!!

I AM MOVING TO KENYA*!!

I have been offered a job with a non-profit organization called CURE INTERNATIONAL www.cure.org as their CUREkids Coordinator/Correspondent and will be leaving for Kenya at the beginning of April !!  I will be working with children and their families as they get life changing surgeries and working as a liaison between the doctors and the patients. I will also be writing for the cure blog, updating supporters on each families progress allowing them to follow along from the first appointment to the last!



I CAN NOT BELIEVE THIS IS REAL LIFE!!!

I am so stinkin' excited.. here is just a little bit about CURE.

More than 80 million physically disabled children in the developing world can be cured through surgery. These children have conditions like clubfoot, bowed legs, cleft lips, untreated burns, and hydrocephalus. Without care, they won't go to school, will have little hope for a future, and many will die from their condition.

CURE's mission is to bring 100% physical and spiritual healing to these children. CURE is a non-profit organization that operates hospitals and programs in 20 countries around the world where patients experience the life-changing message of God's love for them, receiving surgical treatment regardless of gender, religion, ethnicity, or ability to pay.

Since CURE's first hospital opened in Kenya in 1998, we have seen over 1.5 million patients, provided over 121,000 life-changing surgeries, and trained over 2,400 medical professionals.

 

As the leading provider of specialty pediatric surgical care in the developing world, CURE is helping children who have no hope for the future because of their physical disability. By helping a child walk without crutches, repairing a smile or straightening a back, a life is changed. It is more than surgery. It is a gift that will continue to pay dividends the rest of that child’s life. Most communities in the developing world shun children with disabilities. But when families bring their cured children home to the village, attitudes change, stereotypes vanish and future generations of the disabled are treated with compassion and understanding.

 

Mission Statement: Healing the sick and proclaiming the kingdom of God. 

We are changing families:

Healing a child changes a family. At CURE, parents of children with disabilities burdened with feelings of guilt and shame find healing and hope through God’s love.

off to africa I go, I feel so honored to be apart of the CURE family!!!

ahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh***