Partners

Local Partners, Service providers:

Tanzania:

• CCBRT Moshi
  Set up in 1994, Comprehensive Community Based Rehabilitation in Tanzania (CCBRT) was established as a Community Based Rehabilitation programme. CCBRT serves the poorest of the poor in the community and tries to remove as many barriers as possible to allow people to seek treatment. They are changing the lives and communities of some of the poorest and most marginalised people in Tanzania.
  
  
• ALMC
  The Arusha Lutheran Medical Centre (ALMC) is Arusha full-service hospital. Located in the center of downtown Arusha, ALMC offers general and speciality care in many areas. Many children need specialized post-operative care that is not available in their rural villages. Some require more than one operation followed by post-operative physical therapy and rehabilitation.
  
  As the size of the programs increased, the need to care for the children outside of the hospital setting, but in a facility with surgical and medical care, physical therapy and rehabilitation, and a school for long-term children became ever more apparent. Thus the idea of Plaster House was born. The Plaster House with a capacity of 100 children was completed in 2013.

Kenia:

• BethanyKids Children's Hospital Kijabe (Kenya)
  BethanyKids at Kijabe Hospital is the children's ward of Kijabe hospital. It has a 60+ bed capacity and has become the referral hospital in Kenya for neurological patients. The hospital has outreach clinics as far as Dadaab (North of Kenya, border with Somalia). 90% of their patients have Spina Bifida and Hydrocephalus.

Uganda:

• Katalemwa Chesire Homes of Kampala
  Katalemwa Cheshire Home is a disability rehabilitation centre in Kampala. Spina Bifida and Hydrocephalus children are identified and prepared for necessary surgery. Katalemwa has structural cooperation with the CURE project in Mbale for shunting, ETV, and closures of the back. After the surgery, the centre provides follow-up. Katalemwa Cheshire Home has expertise in technical aids, producing wheelchairs, sitting aids, etc.
  
  
• OURS - Organized and Useful Rehabilitation Services, Mbarara
  OURS was founded in 1995 and has a 20-bed rehabilitation centre. It is running as a CBR Program (community-based rehabilitation program) to identify, assess and rehabilitate children living with different types of disabilities. Children and their parents receive medical, social, and therapeutic rehabilitation services, and many community activities are organized. OURS is a Centre of Excellence on lifelong follow-up after children have received surgery at the CURE hospital in Mbale.
  
  
• AVSI, Gulu
  AVSI has been active in Uganda since 1984, maintaining a constant presence in the northern region even during periods of high insecurity. This history and relationship with local communities have allowed AVSI to establish well-equipped and versatile field offices in Gulu, Pader, and Kitgum with experienced staff with in-depth knowledge of the area, the population, and the local leadership. Today, AVSI employs 172 staff based at the head offices and the two field offices. AVSI has an annual budget of circa $9 million for a wide range of programmes across the country. Donors include the USAID, European Union, ICC, UNICEF, Alliance, FAO, and private donations from Belgium, Canada, and Italy.
  
  This project’s goal is to improve the quality of life of children with Spina Bifida and/or with Hydrocephalus (SB/H) in Northern Uganda through early identification and referral of clients for surgery, provision of quality rehabilitation services, sensitising the community about the importance of prevention of SBH, lobbying, and advocacy for inclusive development programs for all SB/H clients
  
  
• CURE Children’s Hospital of Uganda, Mbale
  The CURE Children's Hospital of Uganda has become the referral hospital for Spina Bifida and Hydrocephalus in Uganda. It works closely together for follow-up of the children operated with OURS in Mbarara, Katalemwa Cheshire Homes in Kampala, and other partners in Uganda. Focus has been on the treatment of and research on Hydrocephalus. CURE Children's Hospital of Uganda became the expert on alternative surgery of Hydrocephalus with ETV, making a natural bypass to drain the fluid in the head through endoscopic surgery

Malawi:

• Queen Elizabeth Central Hospital (Malawi)
  The country of Malawi has few physicians. For some time, clinical officers have been "the backbone of the health-care system in Malawi" (to quote pediatric surgeon Professor Eric Borgstein). Children with Hydrocephalus used to only have access to treatment at Queen Elizabeth Central Hospital (QECH) in Blantyre. Through the partnership, treatment is now available in several regional hospitals as well. QECH is the largest referral hospital in the country and has more than 1000 beds. Follow-up is being organized in collaboration with the Beit CURE hospital in Blantyre.
  
  
• Beit CURE, Blantyre
  CURE Malawi is a 66-bed teaching hospital that specializes in treating the orthopaedic needs of children and adults. The facility was opened in 2002 and serves children with physical disabilities regardless of their ethnic background or religious affiliation.
  
  The hospital also has special expertise in total hip and knee replacement surgery, making it one of the few places where this surgery is available in Sub-Saharan Africa. The hospital treats a wide range of orthopaedic conditions including clubfoot, burn contractures, osteomyelitis, and other acquired or congenital conditions. In addition, CURE Malawi also provides physiotherapy and chiropractic services.
  
  
• CURE Neuro
  CURE Neuro is a speciality program of CURE International that exists to advance comprehensive care for children with hydrocephalus and spina bifida. CURE Neuro brings together a training program, care initiatives, and research to build care capacity through partnerships across SubSaharan Africa and Southeast Asia. More than 35 surgeons representing over 20 countries have been trained through CURE Neuro, and as a result, more than 20,000 procedures have been performed globally by CURE-trained neurosurgeons.

Peru:

• Paz Holandesa

NGO’s:

• Liliane Fonds
• IDDC
  
• PUSH!
• RMBF
• RAF
• Handicap International