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More than 10 million children die each year before reaching the age of five. Curamericas is helping to change this. As we expand to help women and children in around the world, we invite you to connect with us and reach our goals.	Curamericas Blog RSS 02 / 21 / 2012 In Rural Guatemala, Part Two This is the second post of a three-part special story from Ira Stollak, KPC Consultant in Guatemala. A sort of "day in the life" in the highlands of rural Guatemala. Read part... More... 02 / 17 / 2012 In Rural Guatemala, Part One To kick off the start of our four-year Guatemala Child Survival Project, 50 men and women conducted 600 in-home questionnaires for the Knowledge, Practice, and Coverage survey (KPC). The KPC ... More... 02 / 09 / 2012 Madison Horizons Rotary Club Visits Curamericas-Guatemala Seven members of the Madison Horizons Rotary Club of Madison, Wisconsin will travel to Guatemala this week to help construct a new Casa Materna. Building another Casa Materna is part of our n... More... 02 / 06 / 2012 Mid-Term Results Are In! Curamericas Shares Family Planning Updates We are now at the mid-term of our Family Planning project in Liberia and we are seeing incredible results already. This intervention is currently a one-year project and not only have we surpa... More... 02 / 02 / 2012 Nehnwaa Staff Member Takes New Position with Curamericas Partner in Ganta Josephine, our trusted Maternal Newborn Health Team Officer since 2009, completed her time with the Nehnwaa Child Survival Project at the end of January. Josephine is now the Clinical Supervi... More... 01 / 31 / 2012 Halfway There! Nehnwaa Team Collects Results of Community-Based Family Planning Intervention In May 2011, USAID (the United States Agency for International Development) and World Learning awarded Curamericas Global the "Community-Based Family Planning Intervention" for integratio... More... 01 / 16 / 2012 This Was the President We Were Waiting For Today in Liberia, it is a national holiday today in observance of the inauguration of Ellen Johnson Sirleaf, who is now serving her second term (and last, as she stated in her speech) as President ... More... 12 / 22 / 2011 Curamericas Receives Ronald McDonald House Charities® Awards Ronald McDonald House Charities® (RMHC) has just awarded Curamericas Global with two grants for our projects in Liberia and in Guatemala. A two-year grant will be used to support our ... More... 10 / 20 / 2011 Weyerhaeuser Family Foundation Partners in Maternal/Neonatal Health Photo: Participants Demonstrate Kangaroo Mother Care Curamericas Global Program Manager Erin Pfeiffer is in Guatemala to complete the third and final maternal/neonatal health training sess... More... 10 / 05 / 2011 Curamericas Hosts Julius Lekpeh of the Nehnwaa Project Julius Lekpeh traveled to Raleigh early in September to work closely with Curamericas staff. Julius is the Monitoring and Evaluation Officer of the Nehnwaa Child Survival Project in Liberia a... More... 09 / 08 / 2011 Medical Students Teach & Learn in Bolivia through Curamericas Global Last month, medical students from the American University of the Caribbean (AUC) traveled south for a volunteer experience with our partner, Consejo de Salud Rural Andino (CSRA) in the lowlands of ... More... 09 / 02 / 2011 Celestine's Story: Helping Women is her Life's Mission through Curamericas Summer used to be a time to slow down, reflect on the past year and think about what you hoped to accomplish in the coming months. Nowadays, it seems there’s hardly any time all to stop and t... More... 07 / 28 / 2011 A Liberian Summer with Curamericas Global Graduate students spend their summer in Liberia Jesse Greenspan is a recipient of the John Snow, Inc. Award to spend her summer as an intern at our Nehnwaa Child Survival Project in Liberia.&nb... More... 07 / 15 / 2011 Curamericas Intern in the Field The last week has been incredibly busy! I spent a lot of time on the research proposal, but we ran into some programmatic issues. The research we’re doing (me and another intern) looks at inc... More... 07 / 07 / 2011 Birth in Guatemala: High School Volunteers Participate in a Special Day This June, Curamericas Global worked closely with ten rising seniors and two professors from Fayetteville Academy in North Carolina to complete a successful Service Learning and Cultural Exchange w... More... 07 / 05 / 2011 Curamericas has fun with Training The third week of June started off with the arrival of Jesse and Cyra in Ganta. They had been in Monrovia since their initial arrival working closely with Bakary on prep work for their summer tasks... More... 06 / 29 / 2011 U.S. Volunteers Aid in Maternal and Newborn Health Trainings The first of three maternal and newborn health trainings began in March for the staff of our Casa Materna in Guatemala. Thanks to funding from the Weyerhaeuser Family Foundation, special atte... More... 06 / 10 / 2011 Curamericas in Liberian Communities We spent the last two days visiting communities where we’ve implemented the Nehnwaa Project, which is a USAID-funded child survival grant. In fact, Nehnwaa literally means “c... More... 06 / 07 / 2011 A Birthday Wish: Curamericas Volunteer Raises Money on Her Special Day Omur Sen, a generous volunteer for Curamericas Global, has made her birthday wish: to raise $250 for Curamericas Global on the Facebook Causes application. Originally from Turkey, Omur is liv... More... 06 / 06 / 2011 Arrival in Liberia, June 2011 A group of Curamericas Global staff and interns are in Liberia to work with the Nehnwaa Project in Ganta. They will be visiting with the communities we serve in partnership with Ganta United ... More... 06 / 03 / 2011 En Route to Liberia Today we're packing to vist the Nehnwaa Project in Nimba County, Liberia. Three Staff persons and five interns will be on hand to conduct trainings, gather information and research to make ... More...

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