AIC Cure International

Kijabe, Kenya
in partnership with African Inland Church

CURE International transforms the lives of children with disabilities and their families in the developing world through medical and spiritual healing, serving all by establishing specialty teaching hospitals, building partnerships, and advocating for these children.

The organisation was founded by Dr. Scott & Sally Harrison in 1996 after they saw first-hand the overwhelming devastation experienced by disabled children and their families in Malawi. In addition to physically suffering from disfiguring birth defects, the children had also been subjected to emotional distress because their communities saw them as cursed, and people to be shunned. What made the situation even more excruciating for Dr. Scott, as an orthopaedic surgeon, was that he saw that these conditions could be treated and cured. Their goal was simple, but not easy: to heal the disabled children living in the world’s poorest countries.

In 1998, CURE International, in cooperation with the African Inland Church, opened the AIC-CURE International Children's Hospital in Kijabe, Kenya. The hospital was Africa's first orthopaedic/ paediatric teaching hospital for children with disabilities. It provides care for children suffering from conditions like clubfoot, cleft lip and cleft palate, curvature of the spine and disabilities stemming from polio, cerebral palsy, muscular dystrophy and other congenital abnormalities.

Each year the hospital serves approximately 8,000 children and performs approximately 2,500 surgeries each year. Since inception, it has provided surgical and rehabilitative care to over 25,000 disabled children and seen over 80,000 out-patients!

The hospital also operates mobile clinics that travel to remote regions to provide follow-up care and identify children who can be treated at the hospital. Their work is crucial in these areas, where primary healthcare facilities are not only inaccessible to many people, but also overburdened by prevalent ailments such as malaria and HIV/AIDS such that the treatment of disabled children is not seen as a priority.

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