Upcoming Events

  1. 1st Annual Healthy Life Healthy Soul Prayer Walk

    Quest to Cure Foundation is a 501C3 non profit organization with a goal of helping children focus on Life without Pain. Our walk goal is to increase awareness to better educate the community of the incident rate and affects of sickle cell disease, raise funds to help sustain Quest to Cures efforts of serving this underserved community and build healthy knowledgeable partnerships and collaborations between individuals with disabilities and their churches as well as promote a healthy life through healthy choices such as exercising, healthy food choices and meditation.  We would like to thank you for the opportunity given to pray with you.

    This event lasts 1 days, 0 hours, and 0 minutes.

    Location: Paradise Valley Mall (Inside the Mall)

  2. Summer Road Camp

    Road Camp 2012 is about fueling sickle cell children with memories that will sustain and inspire them. This out of state experience provides not only education and fun activities, but also opportunities to network and form friendships. Please help us help children focus on life without pain by making your campership donation today

    This event lasts 4 days, 11 hours, and 0 minutes.

  3. World Sickle Cell Day At Phoenix Children's Hospital

    Come celebrate World Sickle Cell Day with Phoenix Children’s Hospital, Quest to Cure Foundation and the Sickle Cell Community.

    This event lasts 0 days, 2 hours, and 0 minutes.

    Location: Phoenix Children's Hospital

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sickle cell anemia / sick•le sel a•ne•mi•a / noun

An inherited blood disorder that mainly affects people of Afro-Caribbean origin and some people from the Mediterranean region, Arabia and Asia. It’s estimated that there are some 12,000 people with the condition in the UK – of which 1 in 4 are West African, 1 in 10 are Afro-Caribbean, 1 in 50 are Asian and 1 in 100 are Northern Greek. In the United States, 1 in 500 African-American newborns has the disease. The aim and mission is to raise awareness of the condition and encourage these communities to get screened.

Quest to Cure Sickle Cell Foundation was founded by Kristine Buchanan. Of her five young children, two of them, a set of identical twin boys, have the most severe form of sickle cell disease. The organization was created as a parent to parent support group designed to teach and promote self advocacy, which in turn would build a stronger, inclusive sickle cell community. Founder and Executive Director Kristine Buchanan believes strongly in Gandhi’s quote, “Be the change you want to see in the world.”

This quote became Kristine’s motto in 2003 when she moved to Arizona from a state that greatly assisted the sickle cell community with numerous programs and services. She spent most of her mornings searching via internet and endless phone calls looking for hematologists, support groups, and sickle cell clinics that assisted with the health care of individuals that suffered from sickle cell disease – but to no avail. Kristine then decided to become the change that she wanted to see for the sickle cell community in Arizona.

Since 2003, Kristine has been operating Quest to Cure with a mission to “Help Children Focus on Life, Not Pain” through unrivaled programs and services like the Summer Road Camp, Bedside Buddy and School Success.

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