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More than Just a Number: How Community Health Workers are Supporting North Carolina’s Most Vulnerable During COVID-19 and Why We Must Continue to Invest in Them
Dec 30, 2021
Op-Ed by Andrew Herrera - November 2021 For 20 straight months, we have heard and read more numbers than we comprehend about underserved communities across North Carolina and how they have been di...
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 ...
National Nonprofit Day: A day to recognize those making a difference and creating change
Aug 13, 2020
August 17 is National Nonprofit Day (NND), a day to recognize the goals and positive impacts nonprofits have on communities and the world. Somewhere, A trained midwife delivers a baby in the dark, wi...
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 (...
Bridging the Gap: Healthcare Workers Visit Curamericas Global's Newest Casa Materna
Sep 11, 2019
For the likely small percentage of people who could pick out San Marcos, Guatemala on a map, they probably know more about the romantic parts of the area and its history. It’s home to the country’...
Bridging the Gap: Volunteers Visit Curamericas Global's Newest Casa Materna
Sep 11, 2019
Waking up to get a glass of water from the kitchen. Jumping in the car for a last-minute run to the grocery store. Rushing over to your local urgent care due to a spiked fever. These everyday tasks or...
Universal Children's Day - 2018
Nov 20, 2018
Children According to the Oxford Press, a child is "A young human being below the age of puberty or below the legal age of majority." In sixteen countries, that age is not 18 but rather 17 or 16. Tho...
Volunteer Spotlight: David Heiser
Oct 13, 2018
-- There are so many women in these countries who are dying in childbirth for no reason. We clean up the water system so people can stay healthy. With 43 years of hydraulic engineering experience t...
Volunteer Spotlight: Meet Jill Block
Oct 12, 2018
“You never get used to it, that gripping tension that wakes up every nerve in your body and clarifies your brain cells to be at your best, because you literally have two lives in your hands and ever...
Health for all - A Casa Materna in Kenya?! That's right...
Sep 19, 2018
Everyone has a right to basic health. In Guatemala, the Casa Materna Program has reached hundreds of thousands of people. Thanks to a partnership with the Kenya Ministry of Health, Ronald McDonald Hou...
Bolivia 2018
Aug 29, 2018
A group of eight of us traveled to Bolivia for a leadership tour. It was a whirlwind, with long flights and a short time in each site. We accomplished our goals! We introduced the work to new partners...
Celebrating National Nonprofit Day
Aug 15, 2018
Celebrating National Nonprofit Day: How Curamericas Global is Inspiring One Woman to Pursue Her True Passions... For Anna Brown, pursuing a major in Human Resources at North Carolina State Universit...
Summary of accomplishments because of Ronald McDonald House Charities
Jul 31, 2018
No woman should die in Childbirth A 15-year old girl arrives at the Casa Maternas in Calhuitz. She has just delivered at home but the placenta will not come out. Similarly, Her mother died when she...
Curamericas Global Shares Community Health Experience with CCATE through CBIO Workshop
Jul 13, 2018
CBIO as a blueprint of community healthcare systems. In June, Curamericas Program & Operations Manager, Barbara Muffoletto, MPH designed and conducted a workshop for the Centro de Cultura, Arte, ...
How you can help Guatemala Today
Jun 11, 2018
In response to the Volcano, Guatemalans across the Carolinas are providing assistance to support there friends and family back home. Specifically, collection sites are sprouting up to collect donated ...
Curamericas Global serving North Carolina
May 24, 2018
Mother’s Day at the Guatemalan consulate - Curamericas Global serving here in North Carolina The new Guatemalan consulate opened in Raleigh in July 2017. It’s the first in North Carolina an...
Emergency Delivery Saves Rural Mother
Jul 18, 2017
In June of 1996, our doctor in San Sebastian Coatán, Guatemala was in the middle of a pickup soccer game, when he was interrupted by a panicked woman urging him to come help her daughter. Upon ...
Moms Are Always There For Us: Here Is How You Can Honor Them Today!
May 08, 2016
Today, families around the world are coming together to celebrate Moms everywhere. Curamericas Global is grateful to work with such inspirational, dedicated, and hardworking women in Latin America an...
Care Groups: The Innovative Community-Based Strategy to Improve Maternal and Child Health
Oct 15, 2015
Maternal and Child Health Today Reducing maternal and child mortality in vulnerable populations has become a priority in global health. Despite achievements in improving the health of mothers and chi...
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...
Reflections on Peace through Health
Mar 27, 2013
By Andrew Herrera, Curamericas Global Program Associate Last week I participated in the North Carolina State University Conference on Inter-Americas Peacebuilding, sponsored by the School of Publi...
Curamericas Celebrates International Women's Day
Mar 07, 2013
International Women's Day (IWD) has been observed since the early 1900's as a result of the economic expansion that occurred during this era, permitting the rise of feminist ideologies. Over the past ...
Water is Life: A First Time Visit to Liberia with Curamericas Global
Jul 18, 2012
By Betty Rupp, Curamericas Global Intern to Liberia Today is my first day in Ganta, Liberia after arriving from Monrovia in heavy rain the night before. Ganta is the second largest city in Liberia...
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