Project C.U.R.E.'s First Ladies Luncheon With Her Excellency Margaret Kenyatta

First Ladies Luncheon 2016 ~ Friday, March 18

Join The Her Excellency Margaret Kenyatta, the First Lady of the Republic of Kenya

Project C.U.R.E., the largest provider of donated medical supplies and equipment to developing nations around the world, invites you to partner with the 2016 Project C.U.R.E. First Ladies Initiative honoring First Lady of the Republic of Kenya, Her Excellency Margaret Kenyatta.

Launched in 2006, Project C.U.R.E.’s First Ladies Luncheon is a fundraising event that brings awareness to the humanitarian efforts of First Ladies from around the world.

Each year, thousands of distinguished guests join together to learn about healthcare issues in the First Ladies country and raise funding to deliver life-saving medical supplies and equipment to the most underserved hospitals and clinics throughout her country. To learn more about becoming a Table Host for this exclusive event, please CLICK HERE.

2016 Project C.U.R.E.
First Ladies Luncheon
Friday, March 18, 2016
JW Marriott Scottsdale Camelback Inn
Scottsdale, AZ

Since 2006, this event has provided more than $17 million dollars’ worth of medical supplies and equipment to hospitals and clinics throughout El Salvador, Belize, Mexico, Ghana, Panama, Tanzania, Mongolia and Mozambique. By hosting a table, you help further our mission of delivering health and hope to hurting people around the world.

For more information, please contact:

Katie Mabardy |  Executive Director  |   Project C.U.R.E.  |  480.432.7478   |   katiemabardy@projectcure.org

Allison Eggert |  Events Manager   |   Project C.U.R.E.  |  720.490.4022   |   allisoneggert@projectcure.org

Making A World of Difference

"Making a world of difference" Dr. Doug Jackson of Project C.U.R.E., Sister Marilyn Lacy of Mercy Beyond Borders and Carmela Santiago of Hope4 Kids International were each honored tonight by Tempe sister cities as international humanitarian heroes!! Each story of their efforts was heartwarming and inspiring to all. Thank you Doug, sister Marilyn, and Carmela for all you are doing to help others!!!

Caborca, Mexico Medical Mission Day 3

Our last of eighteen cataract surgeries today! And our vision screening team served approx 840 kids and adults with free prescription glasses. The smiles and joy we saw and the impact on the lives of our patients is priceless.

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Award Winning Author, Entrepreneur and Adventurer Visits Mumbai, India For Medical Mission

Charles G. Irion Performs Medical Assessment For Project C.U.R.E. In Mumbai, India

As an advisory board member and a trained and certified needs assessment representative, Charles G. Irion’s latest mission was in Mumbai, India. The city of Mumbai, is a great port city, situated on the west coast of the Indian peninsula.  One of India’s dominant urban centers, it’s one of the largest and most densely populated cities in the world.  Therefore, the medical needs are great.   Major health problems in the city include AIDS, tuberculosis, malaria, chronic respiratory ailments, and gastro-intestinal diseases related to poor sanitation and hygiene. 

Working closely with Harvest India, Irion assessed two hospitals.  One located in Mumbai and another in Tenali.  The Phil-Am Lions Club donated over 250 pair of neutralized eye glasses for children in an orphanage, and Irion himself brought over fifty pounds of clothing for children in need.  

Quote by CI here – something like – “I’m honored to volunteer for PC and look forward to the ways I can help the people of Mumbai.”

About Project C.U.R.E. - Project C.U.R.E. is the largest provider of donated medical supplies and equipment to developing countries around the world. Project C.U.R.E. is the recipient of the GuideStar Exchange Silver Seal, the Charity Navigator Four-Star Rating and ranked by Forbes as one of the 20 Most Efficient Large U.S. Charities.  For more information on how you can help, please visit www.projectcure.org
 

About Havest India - Our strategy is to be intentional whether distributing food, or caring for an orphan for 1 day or for their entire life, or running an academic calendar in a major institution, or doing a major outreach in an unreached village. Not only are we looking to meet the “right now” needs, but we are looking to invite each person we encounter to be a part of a community so that they can experience true life change. We want them to know that they matter and that they are loved. It tangibly looks like having young pastors trained in our Bible Colleges, so that after a Mercy Camp there is a pastor visiting or living in that area, ready to follow up with those we treat. We not only want to care for the physical needs but the emotional and spiritual as well.  For more information please visit, www.harvestindia.org

WAVE - The Floating Clinic

I will be heading to The Congo once again this month for another medical assessment with Project C.U.R.E.  I’m looking forward to returning to and lending my assistance to this developing country.  To add to my trip this time around, I will also be working with the great folks at WAVE – Water Based Aid, Value, Engagement www.floatingclinic.org  WAVE is a water based aid floating clinic that has been helping the communities that live around the lake basin, Lake Tanganyika, Africa for over five years. 

Lake Tanganyika is the second largest late on earth.  It is surrounded by four countries, the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Burundi, Tanzania and Zambia.  About three and a half million people live on the shoreline and twelve million live on the basin as a whole.  There is no viable healthcare system and the waterway is the only way that any goods or services move around Lake Tanganyika.

So, the only way that this can be provided is via the hospital ship that WAVE developed to aid that people - the floating health clinic.  It has two operating rooms, a laboratory, dental services and is able to respond to emergencies.  Now, due to the ship, in this neglected area WAVE delivers vital healthcare, distributes necessary medical supplies, establishes important communications, gathers essential medical data, and builds strong relationships with the people and government of the region.

Describing the work they undertake is a task in itself so instead they use three words to describe what they do.  Aid.  Value.  Engagement.  Because they use the lake itself as their highway, they call it water based thus the name WAVE.

You may wonder what water based aid is – they began by using boats to deliver medical supplies and transport people to remote lakeside health centers and soon realized how important the late was to the region.  So, they expanded their vision with intent to build a full size ship to act as a floating hospital and research facility – as well as a communications and training hub.  By doing this, their hospital will become the regional hospital for the basin.  In doing this it strengthens the capacity of local health centers and proves a teaching partner that is desperately needed.  It also provides supply chain support, diagnostics, treatment including surgery, as well as education for the care workers.  The late becomes a healthcare community!

Last year, WAVE impacted more than 75,000 individuals!  To continue extending their work on and around Lake Tanganyika, they need our help.  Each donation is used to improve the lives of thousands of people in the Lake Taganyika Basin.  Their work is making a profound difference on all levels and I’m looking forward to helping them in their continued success and growth.

Here’s how you can help too… Donate Here 

Project C.U.R.E. Trip to Panama

So far so great in Panama!!  Project C.U.R.E.Panama has hit the ground running visiting hospitals and learning of the health care system...and the container is here!! What generous donors we have!!

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Mexico

Great long weekend in Bahia Kino, Mexico. I packed 50 pounds of clothes and brought them along with food donations to the poorest there coupled with a meeting with the missionaries Jesse and Jenny in Guaymas/San Carlos. I met 20 children ages 8 and under. A christian based orphanage that was wonderful, and I was thrilled to also donate clothing, money and food to them. Looking forward to going back some time.

 

 

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About Project C.U.R.E.

Project C.U.R.E. is the largest provider of donated medical supplies and equipment to developing countries around the world. Project C.U.R.E. is the recipient of the GuideStar Exchange Silver Seal, the Charity Navigator Four-Star Rating and ranked by Forbes as one of the 20 Most Efficient Large U.S. Charities.

Project C.U.R.E. (Commission on Urgent Relief and Equipment) was founded in 1987 by James Jackson, who was working as an international economic consultant in developing countries when his work put him face to face with the needs of the sick and dying. During a trip to Brazil, Dr. Jackson visited a small clinic near Rio de Janeiro, where he learned that patients were often turned away due to a lack of basic medical supplies. Jackson was moved to action, making a promise to the clinic doctor that he would help provide relief to the people there.

Dr. Jackson returned to his home in Evergreen, Colorado, and with the assistance of friends in the medical industry collected $250,000 of medical supplies in his garage in just 30 days time. By personally paying the shipping expenses, Jackson was able to send an ocean-going cargo container carrying the donated supplies to Brazil. In 1997 James Jackson's son, Dr. Douglas Jackson, became President & CEO of Project C.U.R.E..

From its humble beginnings in Colorado, Project C.U.R.E. has expanded to many other cities across the United States. Currently, Project C.U.R.E. maintains large distribution warehousesin Arizona, Colorado, Texas and Tennessee. In addition, Project C.U.R.E. has established smaller collection centers several other states where donated items are gathered and then delivered to its warehouses. Project C.U.R.E. now collects medical donations in 15 U.S. cities.

Project C.U.R.E. has been an industry leader in developing new ways to allow the organization to provide the highest quality donated medical supplies and equipment possible to resource-limited communities across the globe, including efficient and accurate inventory systems, supply chain management, expert management of logistics and strong in-country relationships. Project C.U.R.E. also offers numerous domestic and international volunteer opportunities. Since its founding, Project C.U.R.E. has reached patients, families and children in 130 countries.

Today, Project C.U.R.E.'s work and mission are more important than ever, helping to bridge staggering health resource gaps in the developing world by empowering doctors and nurseswith the tools they need to treat disease, deliver vaccines, perform life-changing surgeries and ensure safe childbirth. Through the compassion of Project C.U.R.E.'s supporters, hospitals, rural clinics and community health centers all over the world are able to offer quality care and critical medical services to their most vulnerable patients, especially women and young children. Thanks to the dedication of thousands of volunteers nationwide, two to three cargo containers of life-saving aid leave Project C.U.R.E.’s warehouses every week.

With the help of so many that have the same passion and commitment to helping those in need, Project C.U.R.E. continues to deliver health and hope to the world.

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Project C.U.R.E. in the News!

Phoenix-area charity sending supplies to help with Ebola crisis

(KTAR Photo/Jim Cross)

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TEMPE, Ariz. -- Volunteers packed a cargo container with $250,000 worth of medical supplies Tuesday to ship to Liberia to help fight the Ebola crisis.

The shipment included surgical face masks, gloves, gowns and gurneys from Project C.U.R.E. Phoenix headquarters in Tempe.

Katie Mabardy, executive director of the local branch of the international charity, said all of the supplies were donated by Valley doctors, health care systems, hospitals and medical supply companies.

"This (helps) physicians and health care professionals by providing them with tools they need to keep patients healthy and safe from the transmission of the Ebola virus," Mabardy said.

Nationally, the organization has sent four cargo containers of aid. The Valley staff is prepared to send more if needed.

"... As we continue to receive donations we will continue to send supplies in response to the outbreak," Marbardy said.

Jim Cross, Reporter

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Clothing and Money Donation in Cali, Colombia

While visiting Cali, Colombia for a Project C.U.R.E. Phoenix medical assessment at a new ICU wing in Buenaventura, I took the time to visit a local school. I brought over 50 pounds of clothing with me from the United States for the children there. They are in a very poor area and appreciated the donation very much.