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• Curamericas Global Community-Based, Impact-Oriented Methodology is Helping Local Communities Take Ownership of Their Ongoing Health and Well-Being

  Aug 14, 2020

  Since 1983, Curamericas Global has partnered with communities to save the lives of women and children. These communities have some of the highest child and maternal mortality rates in the world. They ...

• Community Health Facilitators: The Heart of a Community’s Journey to Health and Hope

  Jun 15, 2020

  Last year, Doña Catarina, a community health worker in Calhuitz, Guatemala, sat down with a group of volunteers to share her experience working with Curamericas. For the past five years, Doña Cata (...

• Local Student Joins Curamericas Intern Team

  Mar 29, 2018

  Chapel Hill native, Kendall Harkey, will begin as a program intern at Curamericas Global. Curamericas is a Raleigh-based organization dedicated to saving the lives of women and children in underserved...

• Meet Our Spring 2018 Interns!

  Jan 25, 2018

  Here at Curamericas our interns help us to improve the health and livelihood of mothers and infants throughout the world.  Curamericas works with interns from all across North Carolina to further the...

• World Breastfeeding Week 2017

  Aug 03, 2017

  The Benefits of Breastfeeding Curamericas Global proudly supports World Breastfeeding Week and the practice of Exclusive Breastfeeding (EBF). EBF means that breast milk is the only form of nutrients ...

• Community Health in Kibera, Kenya: Child Survival & Maternal Health

  Dec 10, 2015

    Over the past 90 days, our partners at Carolina for Kibera (CFK) have been hard at work improving the health of mothers and children living in poverty in the Kibera slum of Nairobi, Kenya. R...

• Results from Kibera Kenya show value of Care Groups

  Oct 15, 2015

  In Kibera, Kenya, the cost of health misinformation is life-threatening. Although community members are aware of the health facilities that exist in Kibera, there is a serious lack of health service u...

• Supporting Exclusive Breastfeeding Around the World

  Jul 30, 2015

  Curamericas Global supports World Breastfeeding Week and the practice of Exclusive Breast-Feeding (EBF).  Curamericas promotes breastfeeding as the best option for infant feeding and educates mother...

• Ready-Made With Love: The Benefits of Breastfeeding

  Jul 30, 2015

  Breastfeeding is an age-old practice carried out by mothers around the globe.  Yet in a globalizing world where the spread of information regarding best health practices is constantly evolving, breas...

• Improving Maternal and Child Health in Kibera

  May 26, 2015

  Written by Florence Amadi, Program Manager - Africa Faith Langat, Tabitha Clinic's Manager at a health education session Over the past two years, Curamericas Global has enjoyed a...

• Delphine's Story

  Aug 18, 2014

  Five years of remarkable progress After only five years of working in Liberia, Curamericas Global’s Nehnwaa Child Survival Project was able to reduce under-five child mortality in the area by 63%. ...

• Curamericas Shares Proven Health Practices in Traditional Cultures

  Aug 14, 2012

  By Stephanie McMillan, Development Associate Finding the Middle Ground to Save Lives While visiting with a local group of supporters in Fayetteville, North Carolina last month, Guatemala Project...