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CURE Kenya provides comprehensive care so patients can focus on healing.

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CURE Kenya provides comprehensive care so patients can focus on healing.

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CURE Kenya provides comprehensive care so patients can focus on healing.

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Community Engagement
Patient Ministry

Overview

CURE Kenya provides comprehensive care so patients can focus on healing.

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Pre-Surgery Services
Surgeries
Post-Surgery Services

CURE Leadership Team

Helping kids heal takes a dedicated and compassionate team. Meet the talented doctors, nurses, and administrators committed to caring for the children that CURE Kenya serves.

Eng. Peter Kamau Gitau
Facility Director
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Christine Makena
Finance and Administration Director
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Elizabeth Mombasoi (Shonko)
Quality and Patient Safety Director
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Victor Mose
Spiritual Director
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Nelson Muoki
Executive Director
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Lydia Nyambane
Nursing Director
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Jane Atieno Nyakiro Okatch
Human Resource Director
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Dr. Joseph Theuri
Medical Director
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Elijah Wachira
Programs and Development Director
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CURE Kenya’s mission is to provide every child living with a disability the physical, emotional, and spiritual care they need to heal. If you have questions about becoming a patient or a partner with CURE, please contact us.

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Eng. Peter Kamau Gitau
Facility Director
Eng. Peter Kamau Gitau is a Mechanical Engineer and Facility Manager dedicated to ensuring safe, reliable, and efficient healthcare environments. With over eight years of experience in maintenance management, safety engineering, and project coordination, he specializes in hospital infrastructure, HVAC systems, and fire protection solutions. Peter is passionate about integrating engineering excellence with compassionate service to support quality patient care.
He holds a BSc in Mechanical Engineering from the University of Nairobi and is currently pursuing an MSc in Safety and Reliability Engineering at the University of Aberdeen. Guided by a deep faith in God, Peter believes that every system maintained and every facility improved is part of God’s healing mission through CURE — bringing hope and restoration to children and families in need.
Beyond his professional calling, Peter is passionate about family. He is married to Mercy Wanjiku, and together they are blessed with an amazing son, Sheldon Gitau.
Christine Makena
Finance and Administration Director

Christine Makena serves as Finance and Administration Director at CURE Kenya, providing financial oversight to advance the hospital’s mission of healing children with treatable disabilities.
She is a dynamic Strategic Finance Leader with over 10 years of experience in financial management, compliance, audit, and advisory services. Christine oversees budgeting, financial reporting, compliance, treasury, procurement, inventory management, internal controls, and financial audits, ensuring resources are effectively stewarded to support high-quality patient care.

As part of the senior leadership team, she collaborates with clinical teams, management, and the Board to deliver timely financial insights that inform decision-making, enhance accountability, ensure regulatory compliance, and promote long-term sustainability.

Before joining CURE Kenya, Christine held senior finance and advisory roles at Grant Thornton Kenya and Liberty Life Assurance (Kenya) Limited. She is a Certified Public Accountant (CPA-K) and has a Bachelor of Arts from the University of Nairobi and a Master of Science in Development Finance from Strathmore University.

Outside of work, Christine enjoys reading, watching movies, and spending quality time with loved ones. A committed born-again Christian, she loves the Lord and is passionate about serving those in need.

Elizabeth Mombasoi (Shonko)
Quality and Patient Safety Director

Elizabeth serves as the quality and patient safety director at CURE Kenya. She ensures the provision of efficient and effective leadership in quality improvement and patient safety.

Trained at Kijabe College of Health Sciences, Elizabeth has been a nurse for over 30 years, including ten years at CURE Kenya. She has worked as a deputy nurse in charge, maternity nurse in charge, quality manager, and acting nursing director. She enjoys coming to work every day at CURE and seeing patients achieving something they could not do before, like wearing a shoe or holding a pen.

Outside of work, Elizabeth enjoys counseling families with people living with disability, participating in youth and women’s ministry, singing, and spending time with her family.

Victor Mose
Spiritual Director

Victor serves as Spiritual Director for CURE Children’s Hospital of Kenya. In his role, he provides spiritual care to CURE staff, oversees spiritual outreach events in the community, and ensures that proper spiritual patient care emanates from every discipline within the hospital. He also establishes and models standards of Christian conduct for CURE staff, patients, patient families, and the community the hospital serves.

Since 2001, Victor has served as a local pastor in the Kisii region. He has also worked as the principal of a Bible training center and chaplain of an academy. Victor holds a diploma in Bible and pastoral ministries from Pwani Bible Institute and a bachelor’s degree in Bible and theology from Africa Theological Seminary.

In his personal time, Victor is a gospel artist and has recorded two albums, with more than 20 songs. He has been married to Rose Rabera for 22 years and has two sons, Alfa and Ebenezer.

Nelson Muoki
Executive Director

Nelson currently serves as the Executive Director of CURE Kenya, where he maintains overall accountability for the hospital’s operational, financial, spiritual, and clinical well-being.

In 2015, he began his career at the CURE hospital in Kenya as a CUREkids Coordinator before serving in a variety of other roles, including Donor Facilitation Manager, Programs and Development Director, and Capital Projects Coordinator.

Nelson has a bachelor’s degree in telecommunication engineering from Makerere University in Uganda and an MBA from Strathmore University in Kenya. He is also a Certified Financial Analyst and Project Management Professional.

Driven by his passion for serving God and making a difference, Nelson finds profound motivation in witnessing CURE’s transformative impact, both spiritual and physical, on families.

Outside of work, he enjoys exploring the outdoors, running, hiking, and spending time with family. He’s married to Christine, and they have three children: Adia, Amari, and Aila.

Lydia Nyambane
Nursing Director

Lydia serves as Nursing Director at CURE Children’s Hospital of Kenya, where she directs nursing services across the hospital while ensuring excellent patient safety.

She has a bachelor of science in nursing from the University of Nairobi and a postgraduate diploma in human resource management.

Working for CURE has given Lydia a chance to be surrounded by like-minded people whose sole purpose is to help children with disabilities improve their quality of life.

Away from her nursing duties, Lydia enjoys traveling to different countries and experiencing other cultures.

Jane Atieno Nyakiro Okatch
Human Resource Director

Jane is an experienced and Certified HR generalist with a Bachelor’s Degree in Management and Leadership with a Major in Human Resource from the Management University. A certified HR professional, she is currently pursuing a master’s Degree in Business Management with a major in HR. Jane has a career spanning over 17 years in Envisioning and Executing Human and People Management Strategies that has enabled her to Build and Transform Organizational Cultures. She previously engaged as a volunteer and servant leader at Christ is the answer Ministries, a faith-based organization for 12 years and as a senior Human Resource manager at Shalom Group of Hospitals a healthcare industry for 6 years. During this period, she excelled in aligning HR/people needs with the organization’s vision and business objectives, formulating HR policies and serving asa key HR advisor to management and to the board.

While in Shalom she had the opportunity to work alongside her directors under a program offered by Stanford business school- Stanford seed program that enables enterprises to scale to exponential growth and help in identifying growth opportunities and implement an action plan to transform their business. She was the culture change advocate during the 11-month program.

At CITAM, Jane has had the opportunity to serve twice as a Member of the Advisory board, both in CITAM Athi River and CITAM Kitengela.

She is Currently an Elder in CITAM kitengela, managing her career and spiritual life seamlessly to serve both God and humanity.

While not at work, you will find her attending to her roles in church, taking quiet walks to appreciate nature or tending to her farm and farm animals.

Dr. Joseph Theuri
Medical Director

Since 2011, Dr. Theuri serves as the medical director of CURE Kenya, leading all activities that involve patient care. He joined CURE immediately after his medical internship in Kijabe in January 1998 and completed on-the-job training in corrective surgery for children with physical disabilities for three years. In 2000, he was sponsored by CURE to pursue a degree in orthopedics at Makerere University, Uganda, where he graduated in 2003, after which he served as CURE Kenya’s assistant medical director from 2004-2011.

In 2006 and 2007, Dr. Theuri participated in the development of the College of Surgeons of East Central and Southern Africa (COSECSA) orthopedic program at CURE Kenya and also the establishment of the Moi University Master of Medicine in Orthopedics program. He now oversees the COSECSA Orthopaedic training program at the hospital. This training program, which is also supported by the Pan African Christian Academy of Surgeons, trains orthopedic residents.

Dr. Theuri established a national clubfoot treatment program called Clubfoot Care Project for Kenya in 2005 and is the current director of this program. He is involved in leadership at the AIC Kijabe Local Church and is also a children’s Sunday school teacher. He and his wife Lillian have two sons, Daniel Macharia and David Mburu.

Elijah Wachira
Programs and Development Director

Elijah currently serves as Programs and Development Director at CURE Kenya, where he leads the Programs and Business Development teams, aligning programs, philanthropy, and partnerships to advance CURE Kenya’s mission.

He has versatile experience across program management, resource mobilization, donor engagement, administration, and business operations. In addition to serving in various NGOs and for-profit organizations, he previously served at Kenya Children’s Homes where he led Fundraising & Resource Mobilization, Marketing & Branding, Commercial operations, and Administrative departments.

He holds a Bachelor’s degree in Purchasing and Supplies Management from Jomo Kenyatta University of Agriculture and Technology (JKUAT) and is pursuing a Master of Science in Development Studies (Project Management option) at the same institution. Elijah is passionate about excellence in stewardship and finds fulfillment in serving God through work that transforms lives.

Outside of work, he enjoys spending time with his family, meeting new people, and watching sports. In church, he serves through singing, organizing ministry activities, and participating in Bible study discussions. He is married to Veroh, and they have three children: Mayah, Sean, and Raphael.

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