Organisation

• Advisory Board Members

  Dr Lawrence Faulkner is the Scientific Coordinator of the Cure2Children Foundation Advisory Board, formed by renowned specialists in the field of pediatric tumors and blood diseases.

   

• Lawrence Faulkner, M.D.

  Pediatric hematology-oncology and stem cell transplantation

• Cure2Children: what is it about?

  

  Cure2Children (C2C) is a non-profit, non political and secular organization providing support to developing countries' health professionals caring for children with cancer and blood disorders. The aim is to give a significant and measurable contribution, even if modest, to the cure and well-being of children with severe disorders such as cancer, leukemia or thalassemia, in poor countries.
  Cure2Children wants to improve care directly where underprivileged families live by training and supporting local doctors and nurses, purchasing supplies and providing equipment. In addition, financial, psychological and logistic support is offered to needy families to prevent treatment abandonment. The ultimate goal is to promote self-reliance and limit the painful emigration of distressed families seeking cure for their children in richer countries.

• Our meeting with the Noble Prize Yunus in Bangladesh to setup a Social Business to cure Thalassemia

  I just came back from an amazing trip to Bangladesh with Lawrence Faulkner and Pietro Sodani of Cure2Children.

  We were able to meet twice with Nobel Laureate Prof. Yunus at the head office of Grameen Bank in Dhaka, and we also visited some hospitals, Thalassemia centres and the Red Crescent (Red Cross).

  The story all started with an email  I sent in June 2009 to Prof. Yunus (I didn’t know him), saying that I had read his book “Creating a World Without Poverty: Social Business and the Future of Capitalism”, that I agreed with his idea of a social business even if I had no idea of how to go about it, and I asked him if we could do something to cure Thalassemia in Bangladesh with Bone Marrow Transplantation, like we are currently doing in Pakistan and  are starting to do in India.

• Meeting Nobel laureate Professor Yunus to cure thalassemia in Bangladesh

  by Lawrence Faulkner

   

• The trip to Pakistan to help Cure2Children

  I just came back from my 2 day trip to Pakistan and some of my friends asked me to write about it. I've been to Islamabad to see the amazing wonderful things that the Italian foundation Cure2Children http://www.cure2children.org/ (founded just 2 years ago by parents who lost their kids and by the visionary physician Lawrence Faulkner) is doing there.

• Project Pakistan: a personal journey

  I've had a dream of a health cooperation project for years, as opposed to surgery or emergency medicine, paediatric oncology, the field in which I have most of my professional experience, rarely offers the opportunity to fulfil this dream.

  This year I've been lucky, Cure2Children (C2C) asked for my help. The Foundation was born in Florence, created by the haemato-oncologist Lawrence Faulkner together with some parents who unfortunately lost their children to the disease. This project is designed to share knowledge about bone marrow transplantation with developing countries that need it, where there is a need for funding and/or professional support. The main project of C2C is currently in Pakistan. 

• Contact us
• How to help us

  How to help Cure2Children.

• About us

  Cure2Children (C2C) is a non profit, apolitical, and secular organization providing support to developing countries’ health professionals caring for children with cancer and blood disorders.

• Vacancies

  Pakistan

  Cure2Children Foundation and Pakistan Institute of Medical Sciences (PIMS) are jointly collaborating to set up a bone marrow transplant unit at Children’s hospital (PIMS). This would be a private partnership project.

  Job titles

• Board of Directors

   

• Pietro Sodani, M.D.

  Stem cell transplantation from partially matched related donors for hemoglobinopathies

• Paul Szabolcs, M.D.

  Pediatric hematology-oncology, cord blood transplantation

• Giuseppe Masera, M.D.

  Pediatric hematology-oncology, international medicine

  Professor Masera is well known for his pioneering work in support of pediatric hematology-oncology in developing countries.  He is the  founder of the Monza International School of Pediatric Hematology-Oncology (MISPHO)

• Ira Dunkel, M.D.

  Pediatric brain tumors and retinoblastoma

  Dr. Ira Dunkel is well known in the field of pediatric oncology and is responsible for the clinical management of childhood brain tumors and retinoblastoma at the Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center in New York.

• Franco Bambi, M.D.

  Blood banking, stem cell collection & processing, cell therapy & good manufacturing practices

  Director, Blood Bank & Cell Therapy Laboratory

  The Children's Hospital of Florence (Ospedale Meyer)

• Franco Aversa, M.D.

  Stem cell transplantation from partially matched related donors

• Charter

  Article 1

  Origin, denomination, nature and duration

  1. At the request of Doctor Lawrence Faulkner, the Foundation known as "FONDAZIONE CURE2CHILDREN ONLUS" is herewith established, with legal offices in Florence, Via Marconi 30.

  2. The Foundation is non-partisan, apolitical and non-denominational, of unlimited duration and is not for profit, either directly or indirectly.

  3. With this denomination, the Foundation has been granted title as a "Socially Useful Non-Profit Organisation", which provides it with a unique, distinguishing mark, which for this purpose shall be used, also with the acronym "ONLUS", in each and every external communication and manifestation directed at third parties.

• Giorgio RighettiGiorgio is currently director of Fondazione per il Sud, a large non-profit foundation established in 2006 with several milion euros of funding. The mission of Fondazione per il Sud is to contribute to the development of southern Italy. Before being involved full-time in non-profit projects he was a top manager in the fashion business.
• Cristina CianchiCristina is a traffic police officer in Italy, she lost her son to neuroblastoma.
• Stefania PeppicelliStefania is a housewife, she lost her son to neuroblastoma.
• Marino Andolina, M.D.

  Bone marrow transplantation, international medicine

• Selim Corbacioglu, M.D.

  Pediatric hematology-oncology, stem cell transplantation and veno-occlusive disease