28/12/2025
CURE: The Journey, The Struggle, The Heart ✨
It’s hard to put into words what CURE has meant to me. Tomorrow, it officially dissolves, and while an organisation can end, the impact, the memories, and the lessons don’t.
CURE wasn’t just a project or a name. It was my heart. My nights without sleep, my endless planning, my every ounce of energy ,poured into a vision that youth can lead, communities can change, and action matters more than words.
We’ve done more than we could ever imagine. More than we ever thought. In our first year alone, we reached over 250,000 people,students, families, communities ,teaching, inspiring, creating awareness. We trained volunteers, created leaders, built networks, held campaigns, planted seeds of change everywhere we could. Every session, every discussion, every small smile or spark of awareness ,it mattered. And it still does.
So why dissolve, then?
Not because we failed. Not because we lacked effort or passion. In fact, we gave everything we had. The truth is, leadership sometimes means making the hardest choices for the things you love. Some of our founding members are leaving the country, others moving far from where CURE began. And we realized that no one remaining could hold the vision, the responsibility, and the values that this organisation was built on. We could not and would not compromise.
CURE has always been about integrity, about purpose. And if we continued now without the ability to maintain those values, it wouldn’t be CURE anymore. It would be something else, something less. And that was never an option.
For hundreds of nights, I stayed awake thinking, planning, and dreaming for CURE. I worried, I hoped, I cried a little, I smiled a lot. Every volunteer, every ambassador, every supporter who walked with us—you gave life to something bigger than ourselves. You carried this vision when it was heavy, when it was messy, when it was hard. You are the true heart of CURE.
I am proud, I am grateful, and yes Iam sad. Because letting go is never easy. But this decision, painful as it is, is the right one. It’s a decision not for ourselves, but for CURE. It’s a decision to preserve its spirit, its integrity, its legacy.
CURE may dissolve on paper. But it will live in every life we touched, in every mind we opened, in every volunteer who carries forward the lessons, values, and courage we built together.
Thank you for believing. Thank you for walking with us. Thank you for making CURE more than an organisation it became a movement, a family, a dream realized.
This is goodbye to the chapter, but not to the purpose. 💙
- Mahtabul Islam Uday
Former Founder and Executive Director, Community United For Relief And Empowerment