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communiqué Delivering Health and Hope to the WorldMoms & Babies doesn’t have to be this way,” said Mrs. Kenyatta. “This is why I have launched the ‘Beyond Zero Campaign’ whichTOP PRIORITY FOR KENYA’S will bring prenatal and postnatal medical treatment toFIRST LADY women and children in our country.” And launch a campaign, she did. Each year, HerToo many Kenyan babies do not Excellency organizes and personally runs a marathonlive to celebrate their first with all proceeds designated to her Beyond Zerobirthday. Her Excellency Margaret Campaign. Just this year, she was joined by 35,000Kenyatta, the First Lady of Kenya Kenyans to support her effort. As a result, Beyond Zeroand Project C.U.R.E.’s 2015 First has deployed 37 state-of-the-art Mobile Medical ClinicsLadies honoree, is committed to to Kenya’s most rural and vulnerable communities.changing this tragic health trend These clinics are reaching people who have neverwith the “Beyond Zero” Health Campaign and before seen a doctor or received any form of medicalto strengthening the health infrastructure treatment.in her country. Kenyatta also shared her It was a perfect combination when Project C.U.R.E.vision to eliminate HIV infections among Phoenix Executive Director, Katie Mabardy, traveledKenyan children as she addressed the to Nairobi last year to invite Her Excellency as theProject C.U.R.E.’s 2016 First Ladies’ Honoree at the 2016 First Ladies Luncheon in Arizona.Luncheon in Phoenix, Arizona this past Since inception, this event has resulted in the delivery ofMarch. more than $17 million dollars’ worth of medical relief toThe 1,100 distinguished guests—all developing countries. The result from this year’s event—community leaders in Phoenix—rose in enough funds to deliver more than $2 million in life-savinga standing ovation after the First Lady medical supplies and equipment to the people of Kenya.delivered a gripping speech outlining “The mission of the First Lady is to impact the health ofher solutions to the health challenges mothers and children in Kenya. This is not only important,that continue to plague her nation. Her but imperative,” said Mabardy. “The doctors and nursesplan is a daunting health initiative, but Project C.U.R.E. has worked with in Kenya are skilled andwith Kenyatta at the helm and in partnership motivated to serve their communities. Many of them workwith Project C.U.R.E., the movement is gaining seven days a week with limited access to basic medicaltraction.In a country like Kenya, pregnancy and childbirth are continued on page 2the second leading causes of death. And because of theFirst Lady’s valiant efforts, this number has been steadilydecreasing over the past few years, but is still far toohigh. Since 2014, the First Lady has set out to eliminateall unnecessary deaths for women and children in hercountry—to go “Beyond Zero” and transform health for anentire generation of Kenyans.“I am deeply saddened by the fact that women and childrenin our country die from causes that can be avoided. ItFall 2015 Communiqué | www.projectcure.org

CONTAINERS TO DATE | 53 COUNTRIES SERVED AS OF MAY 2016 As of May 31, 2016, Project C.U.R.E. sent 139 Ukraine containers to 53 countries in need of life-saving Moldova Romania Turkey Armenia healthcare suplies and equipment. Palestine Tajikistan Jordan Iraq NepalMexico Dominican India Haiti Republic Mauritania Chad Sri LankaGuatemala Honduras Gambia Mali Niger El Salvador Nicaragua Guinea Panama Guyana Sierra Leone Benin Nigeria Ethiopia GhanaTogoCameroon Liberia Uganda Somalia Guinea Rwanda Kenya Indonesia Rep. of Congo Burundi Papua Tuva.lu DRC Tanzania New Guinea Bolivia Angola Malawi Madagascar Paraguay Zambia Mozambique Chile Swaziland Denver houston nashville phoenix chicago 32.5 containers 19 containers 29 containers 24 containers 1 1 containers valued at valued at valued at valued at valued at $22,325,443 $9,237,162 $9,259,426 $12,107,386 $4,358,473Kenya–continued from page 1Distinguished guests and community leaders attend the First Ladies Cindy McCain, Project C.U.R.E. Arizona leader, Mrs. Angela Ducey, First LadyLuncheon in Phoenix. of Arizona, and Her Excellency the First Lady of Kenya, Margaret Kenyatta.supplies and equipment. In partnership with the First Lady, “It is the women who are producing positive change allwe are here to change that and advance access to quality over Africa. Women and children are particularly vulnerablehealthcare for the people of Kenya.” to healthcare disparities. By investing in maternal andNone of this would have been possible without child health, we have an opportunity to transform wholeindispensable partners and community leaders. Bonnie communities,” said an impassioned McCain who worked inBishop, founder of Friends of Africa International, opened Africa for many years.her Nairobi home to Project C.U.R.E. and committed her Organizations like Project C.U.R.E., Friends of Africapassion for the people of Kenya to assist in the partnership International, and the Beyond Zero Campaign make itcreation between the First Lady and Project C.U.R.E. Arizona possible to change the world. It was a proud moment forleaders Mrs. Cindy H. McCain, and First Lady of Arizona, Mrs. Arizona to host this year’s First Ladies Luncheon and honorAngela Ducey, personally welcomed the First Lady to the Her Excellency the First Lady of Kenya, Margaret Kenyatta.State and addressed the audience to share their passion for Like McCain said, “As Arizonans, we strengthen our globalphilanthropy and commitment to global health. reach by supporting the great work of Project C.U.R.E. around the world.”two | C.U.R.E. communiqué

c.u.r.e. world I CAN DO THAT! PASSION & PURPOSE lead theway with DR. DUANE SPAULDINGWhile cautiously navigating the rubble in the aftermath Dr. Spalulding checks a little girl in one of the clincs.of the catastrophic Haiti earthquake in 2010, Dr. DuaneSpaulding’s head was spinning trying to determine assault. After cleansing and suturing her wound and verifyingwhere his team could find a space large enough and a normal clinical exam, she was released—only to returnsafe enough to erect an emergency medical unit. The several hours later in respiratory crisis having subsequentlysqualor and vacant stares of the survivors created a sensory developed a life-threatening collapsed lung from that originalbombardment for him. As a medical volunteer for Heart to attack. Thankfully, at a nearby hospital a chest tube from aHeart International (HHI), he surveyed the destruction ofthe 2010 Haitian earthquake, and began the arduous task Project C.U.R.E. cargo container was used to re-inflate herof saving lives. The 119-degree heat and lack of adequate lung and save her life. That simple piece of equipment—asupplies complicated the enormity of this mission. chest tube—were the same ones he had packed just a few months earlier for aIn 2008, he opted for early retirement from his practice THANKFULLY, AT A NEARBY Haiti-bound disaster reliefin Colorado Springs, to pursue a brand new dimension of containers from Projectmedical practice—international medical volunteering. All HOSPITAL A CHEST TUBE C.U.R.E. Denver where hehis passions, talents and training converged to make thisimportant decision to foster global improvements in medical FROM A PROJECT C.U.R.E. volunteered. “There are nocare. Having already made many volunteer trips to Africa, he CARGO CONTAINER WAS coincidences,” he said.was poised and ready to jump into action when the Haiti call Dr. Spaulding’s medicalcame. “Even with solid preparation, you can never prepare USED TO RE-INFLATE HER impact and organizationalyour heart for human suffering and the body for the sensory skills proved so valuable inoverload of a disaster. That is what greeted us upon arrival LUNG AND SAVE HER LIFE. this mission that Heart toin Haiti,” he said. Heart encouraged him toHis first patient in the long line of quake survivors was a become their Medical Director in Haiti.young girl of 17 with a deep back laceration from an acute Whenever in the U.S., Spaulding has continued his important Haitian organizational work for HHI and the volunteer sorting and packing at Project C.U.R.E.’s distribution center. He has seen firsthand the vital connection of critical medical supplies to those desperately needing them in underserved areas around the globe. His familiarity with African health challenges led to his deployment as a Project C.U.R.E Needs Assessment Representative to Ghana where a national organization had requested a C.U.R.E. cargo container filled with much-needed medical equipment and supplies. Dr. Duane Spaulding’s humanitarian journey continues today with his family’s first-ever trip to Malawi in June 2016 where he will deliver a C.U.R.E. Kit to a clinic in need. Thanks Dr. Spaulding for your profound passion and intense purpose to deliver health and hope to the world.A long line of quake survivors wait to see the doctor. C.U.R.E. communiqué | three

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