Providing Hope Through Health: Churches, Students and Families Join Local Nonprofit’s Virtual Fundraiser to Support Mothers and Children in Forgotten Communities Around the World and the Triangle
810 - that’s how many women die each day around the world due to complications from pregnancy and childbirth. What makes this number even more tragic - many of the causes are preventable and even treatable. Maternal mortality is not just a problem in developing countries, it remains a challenge [...]
Triangle Nonprofit Completes First Global Volunteer Trip Since Pandemic Halted Travel in 2020
WakeMed Labor and Delivery nurses traveled to Guatemala to teach and train female, community workers who treat expectant mothers without access to healthcare Raleigh-based Curamericas Global has just returned from its first volunteer trip in two years. The COVID-19 pandemic halted the global health nonprofit’s service trips in March 2020. [...]
More than Just a Number: How Community Health Workers are Supporting North Carolina’s Most Vulnerable During COVID-19 and Why We Must Continue to Invest in Them
Op-Ed by Andrew Herrera - November 2021 For 20 straight months, we have heard and read more numbers than we comprehend about underserved communities across North Carolina and how they have been disproportionately affected by the COVID-19 pandemic. In May and June 2020 alone, Latinx communities represented 44 percent of [...]
Curamericas Global and Local Health Workers Impact the Lives of 163K People in Underserved Communities Through Alliance with State of North Carolina, Focus on Vaccinations
Raleigh-based global health non-profit will continue working with Community Health Workers to reach families still facing inequities as the pandemic continues After a nearly year-long partnership, Curamericas Global, a non-profit based in Raleigh, that partners with underserved communities around the world to make measurable and sustainable improvements to communities’ health [...]
