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This Christmas, support Operation Zim! We’re raising funds for life-changing surgical care at CURE Children’s Hospital of Zimbabwe. Children will be empowered with mobility, to learn, play and thrive. Your donations will provide operations that not only correct disabilities, but change futures!
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Situation
In Zimbabwe, 300,000 children suffer needlessly from correctable disabilities. When a child is born with a life-altering condition or suffers a serious accident, essential medical care is largely unavailable. Treatable conditions become permanent disabilities, preventing these children from attending school or finding employment, pushing their families deeper into poverty. Stigmatised by their conditions, they are marginalised. They no longer play, learn or participate in everyday life.
Solution
CURE Zimbabwe is the country's first and only hospital to offer free surgical care to children. It serves children with disabilities such as clubfoot, bowed legs, knock knees, burn contractures, cleft conditions and neglected trauma. The hospital has 42 beds, three operating rooms, and an outpatient clinic. It also provides physiotherapy, mobility device fitting and ministers to the emotional and spiritual needs of patients and their communities. Through treatment, a child's future is restored!
