Project C.U.R.E. is mobilizing our network of donors, volunteers and transportation organizations to send life-saving medical supplies to Ecuador after the devastating 7.8 magnitude earthquake that occurred on April 16, 2016, injuring thousands. Project C.U.R.E. has strategically selected in-country partners who are on the front lines in the affected areas. Our partners relay up-to-date needs for addressing the immediate medical issues. Considering the medical treatment already administered to thousands in Ecuador, medical staff are experiencing a lack of basic and specialized equipment to treat patients. We are taking donations to send hand-carried C.U.R.E. Kits with U.S.-based responders.

A C.U.R.E. Clinics team was in Manta and Junin where they worked with medical students from the University of Cuenca and treated more than 850 patients days before the earthquake hit. Just hours after the team left the area to head home, the towns where they were working were destroyed. All Clinics participants made it back to the U.S. safely, but their hearts and minds are with the "beautiful people there."

In the coming days and weeks, 20-foot and 40-foot containers of medical supplies will be sent to those in need in Ecuador.