2022 CURA HIGHLIGHTS
We are excited to announce the new CURA FOR THE WORLD OKLAHOMA CLINIC in Supulpa - Creek County,
Sam Elzey PA moved out of state and Kayla Hansen DNP is now on the board of directors of the Cura Clinic in Oklahoma.
So many volunteers cam and helped with setting up the clinic. Some painted, others helped with cleaning up the place, setting all the rooms to start accepting patients. And we have successfully incorporated our “under one roof” plan of having a pharmacy for our patients to get their medications at a discounted price. Thanks to Travis and Sunni Wolf the pharmacy now is operational during our clinic time and we are able to come full circle with our patients and take care of them.
Also in 2022 our CURA RACING TEAM lead by Austin Edgar won TULSA TOUGH in one of the biggest crit stages in America.
2021 Cura for the world in partnership with Tulsa Girl’s Home
Dr Trad Accepted a leadership role in Tulsa’s Newest NGO - Tulsa Girl’s Home - a Project Orphans newest endeavor, taking their international expertise and using it to help our own Oklahomans in the Forster care system.
The Tulsa Girls’ Home is on a mission to provide girls who have been removed from abuse or neglect with a temporary home-like environment where they can receive treatment and discover their value and potential. Each girl is unique and should be treated with a personalized approach.
2021 CURA for the world - OKLAHOMA CLINIC - New Home
Our foundation’s regional leadership comprises of Dr Zach Fowler DO, Dr Rachel Ray DO, Sam Elzay PA, Travis and Sunni Wolff Pharm. D. They have worked tirelessly creating a seamless transition to our next home in Sapulpa. Our new space will include expanded treatment rooms, board room, a community room and an in house pharmacy and lab.
2021 Partnership with Humanity Unified International
Cura Café opened in June 1st 2021 and since then we have been able to help 10 families in Rwanda with creating permagardens through our partners at humanity unified international.
2021 Cura Racing
Cura for the world welcomed its CURA RACING team in 2021 where we participated in Tulsa Tough with 8 cyclists. Cura racing is bringing awareness to our cause and also creating an avenue to purchase bicycles for children who commute more than 1-2 hours to school.
2021 Cura Café opens
Cura Café is a social enterprise that helps spread our message to the public, raise awareness towards social justice and the importance of medical equity and universal health care. Our coffee is sourced from the countries Cura for the world has operations in and we use a bean to cup method to help support local businesses and family owned farms.
2020 - Quarantine - and the birth of the Cura Café idea
As COVID-19 swept around the globe, Cura for the world faced so many challenges. It started with our inability to put on our annual fundraise which is the main lifeline of our organization in terms of fundraising. Also we were unsuccessful in creating any online avenues to funnel funds into our operations. Our project in BURUNDI came to a halt, and we were unable to build our clinic even though we had successfully helped our partners at EMPOWER for HOPE to purchase land in Bujumbura for the clinic.
So many non profits closed their doors due to lack of funding. Cura had few long term supporters who helped us keep our operations alive. We started thinking of alternative ways to create funds for the international arm of Cura, thus Cura Café was created.
With the help of a local builder, the generosity of a business landlord, and so many volunteers we were able to start building Cura cafe and that took us way into 2021 to finish.
2019 CURA’s Christmas Party
CURA’s second annual Christmas party was a success! We were able to raise funds to help IRON GATE soup kitchen in Tulsa Oklahoma provide close to 600 meals during Christmas, and our patrons were able to provide 197 lbs of pantry items for Tulsa’s homeless.
At CURA we are proud to be able to create such events where we lend a helping hand to our neighbors and to those in need in our community and the world. Small acts of kindness bring hope, it fills our hearts with gratitude to the opportunities given to us to be more fortunate in a world where so many are living in the shadows.
Announcing CURA’s 2019 International Clinic Beneficiary
CURA for the world ended 2019 by finalizing plans for a CURA clinic in BURUNDI. Our partner organization is EMPOWER FOR HOPE.
EMPOWER FOR HOPE’s mission is to empower and provide vulnerable women with opportunities for a better economic and educational future for themselves and their children by giving them the tools to become financially self-sufficient while healing their brokenness with supporting resources and love.
Empower for Hope connects caring consumers, skilled craftsmen, and inspirational leaders with vulnerable women to bring dignity and economic opportunity. We accomplish this by:
By providing education and training in crafting skills to allow women to make earn fair wages for their work
By providing education and training in life and business skills to help women become more financially savvy, healthy and self-sufficient
By raising funds through product sales and donors to foster growth and the ability to reach more impoverished women
2019 Oklahoma Clinic Flu Shot Campaign
Our first big event at the clinic in Oklahoma was a success. We were able to raise funds to provide 100 free flu shots to the uninsured in Oklahoma. It is important for us to keep our neighbors healthy especially during the Holiday Season, so that happy memories are made.
CURA’s First US Clinic Opening
After almost one year of planning, countless hours of preparation and many amazing people who made this dream a reality, CURA for the world’s first US clinic Opened on July 23rd 2019. We are ready to start serving the uninsured in Oklahoma. It is amazing what our CURA Gala, small fundraisers and volunteers were able to accomplish in such short period of time.
We have been able to create partnerships with Regional Medical Labs RML for free laboratory testing for our patients, Aetna for Electronic Medical Records, MED WORLD for affordable $2 medications, St Johns Medical Center for guideline driven diagnostics free of charge to our patients, and CURA Telehealth with a free Telemedicine Tower to provide free specialty care for the uninsured in Oklahoma.
This Project is a perfect example of how the state of OKLAHOMA reflects the soul of the greatest nation on earth. Service, patriotism, generosity, share of knowledge, and lending a healing hand to those who needs it most. We are proud Oklahomans helping our neighbors and we hope that this movement will spread around the country.
Click below to pictures of our opening day and CURA in the news.
CURA AT THE UNITED NATIONS
April 29th 2019
It is hard to believe that in 2016 Dr Trad was outside of the UN in Geneva Switzerland dreaming about starting CURA for the world. On April 29th 2019, Dr Trad and Dr White attended the High Level Multi-Stakeholder Meeting for Universal Health Care at the United Nations headquarters General Assembly in NYC.
Click here to read the statement that Project 1948 Foundation and CURA for the world presented at the meeting on behalf of civil society.
CURA | 2019 BLACK GALA
CURA’s 2018 Christmas Party
CURA chooses a new local charity to support during Christmas. Our 2018 organization was Tulsa Advocates for the Protection of Children.
TAPC is a nonprofit organization committed to improving the lives of abused and neglected children in Tulsa and contiguous counties by provided resources and building community. TAPC receives no government funding and relies on the support of the many generous foundations, corporate and individual donors in Tulsa. Help TAPC support the over 1,600 children in the foster care system in our community. Let’s give each child a voice and a future with hope.
At our 2018 event CURA for the world was able to raise $2000 to help purchase Christmas gifts for Oklahoma’s foster children.
CLICK ON THE SLIDE SHOW TO VIEW MORE PHOTOS
CURA in PERU - September through October 2018
On September 28th 2018 CURA’s team headed to Santa Rosa Des Quives in the Black Andes in beautiful Peru. We were so excited to meet with the MITA’s foundation founder Tina Peña who gracefully set up for us two full days to care for the villagers where CURA’s clinic was. it was a spectacular experience, we treated patients with illnesses that ranged from a simple Urinary and Upper respiratory tract infections to Deep Venous thrombosis to eye clinic and dental care. It was great to meet the priest of the village and get to eat some authentic food made by the local villagers in a pit in the ground. We left the CURA clinic and went to explore beautiful Peru!… We got to see Machu Pichhu, Sacred Valley, The salt mines, and Cusco. Currently the clinic is being operated by Dr Romina and Dr Mario Villavisencio.
CURA’s Medical Mission to Uganda - May 2018
CURA went to Uganda May 6th 2018 to fully celebrate Project Orphan’s CURA clinic completion which is not caring for more than 400 patients a month in Zirobwe. We also were able to go to Acholi’s slum outside of Kampala and provide care to more than 600 patients. After we were done with our medical mission, the team gathered and we all went to Nyabyshozi, Mbarara a beautiful area for a mini safari and were able to get on a boat and experience Uganda’s wildlife on the lake. It is just humbling to be in the presence of such beauty of both the souls of the people and the rich history of Africa - The cradle of humanity.
CURA’s partnership with Mainsprings - TANZANIA - January 2018
CURA for the world raised funds in 2017 in order to make this beautiful project a reality. A CURA clinic with Mainsprings Tanzania that help care for the students and community members outside of Mwanza, on the shores of lake Victoria. A source of healing and much needed education. We were able to successfully lead a medical mission January 7th 2018, and treat close to 600 patients. We learned about permaculture and saw its apparent impact as well as a n neighboring village that have used the methods they learned from mainsprings Permaculture Institute of Tanzania where they were able to replicate the success story proven by mainsprings. We then explored the Serengeti national park - a journey to remember.
CURA’s Partnership with Worlds Collide Africa in Congo - 2017
CURA for the world partnered with Worlds Collide Africa and was able to build a clinic in Goma - DRC. However due to security reasons, followed by the Ebola outbreak and restrictions from the World Health Organizations on NGOs, the CURA team have yet to visit the clinic for a medical mission. We continue to be hopeful to visit in the near future.
CURA’s first medical mission as an organization - May 2017
After our first CURA Gala in march 2017, we purchased medicine for 3000 patients and were able to see more than 2000 patients in 4 days. Our team was AMAZINGLY MOTIVATED and just overall ready to spread CURA’s mission of compassion and care. We came back ignited to start a long journey ahead with further partnerships to build clinics and food security programs around the world.
