Sign a cast. Help a child walk. CURE International, the largest provider of specialty surgical care in the developing world, has a new program for people in the U.S. to help change the life of children half a world away – and it does not cast anything. For each signature completed online, a generous friend of CURE will make a donation providing a cast to a child recovering from clubfoot surgery.

To date, CURE has treated more than 650,000 children. The organization operates teaching hospitals in 11 developing-world countries, focused mainly on helping children with congenital disorders and disabilities including clubfoot and cleft lip/palate.

Orthopedist and entrepreneur Dr. Scott Harrison, president and CEO of CURE International. Harrison founded CURE in 1996, after several volunteer medical trips to operate on children in developing African nations.
 

4:30 – 8:30 a.m. PDT / 6:30 – 10:30 a.m. CDT / 7:30 – 11:30 a.m. EDT
Wednesday, June 11

10:30 a.m. – 2:00 p.m. PDT / 12:30 – 4:00 p.m. CDT / 1:30 – 5:00 p.m. EDT
Thursday, June 12

Via phone from Lemoyne, Penn.
 

CURE International is much more than a medical/humanitarian charity. According to founder Harrison, CURE is actually a ministry meeting the medical needs of children, offering hope and physical healing, while showing godly love. CURE has seen almost as many faith conversions as medical operations, which now number more than 46,000.

CURE also seeks to transform Third World health care, bringing it up to First World standards. CURE has opened teaching hospitals or provided outreach treatment in Afghanistan, Cambodia, Dominican Republic, Haiti, Honduras, Kenya, Malawi, Uganda, United Arab Emirates and Zambia. The ministry plans to open four more hospitals in the next two years in Ethiopia (2008), Egypt, Niger and Palestine (by the end of 2009).

BEFORE & AFTER: a young boy from Kenya

BEFORE & AFTER: two-year-old Jane from Kenya