CURE International’s founders, Dr. Scott and Mrs. Sally Harrison, participated in medical missions to Malawi, Africa in 1986 to perform spine surgery and teach higher level orthopedic surgery skills to local medical practitioners. The Harrison’s saw the kids with birth defects suffer physically and emotionally from disfiguring birth defects. Often the kids were viewed as cursed, and people to be shunned.

After multiple trips to Malawi, the Harrison’s founded CURE International (Lemoyne PA) in 1996 to provide physical and spiritual healing to the disabled children living in the world’s poorest countries. Since its beginning, CI has established a presence in 12 developing countries and has performed more than 41,000 operations for more than 600,000 outpatients.

CURE’s physicians perform medical services for Hydrocephalus, Cleft Palate, Clubfoot, Spina Bifida, spinal deformities, and other crippling orthopedic conditions.

CURE now has a presence in Afghanistan, Cambodia, Dominican Republic, Egypt, Ethiopia, Haiti, Honduras, Kenya, Malawi, Uganda, United Arab Emirates and Zambia.

Hospitals operated by CURE have hospitals in 8 countries, and in the near future plan to open hospitals in Egypt, Ethiopia, and Bethlehem. The Bethlehem medical training center and hospital ($16.5-million) scheduled to be completed in 2010 will be the first specialty surgical care available to Palestinian children in the West Bank. Muslims, Christians and Jews are working together to bring medical care to the West Bank.

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