Travel to Tanzania 2024

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Care4Burn recently returned from Tanzania—here’s a recap of our journey!

We’ve just completed another inspiring trip to the KCMC Hospital in Tanzania, where we’ve been engaged since 2011. It was our first visit in two years, and it was wonderful to reconnect with our Tanzanian colleagues and strengthen our important collaboration. During the week, we followed up on previous projects like the Banana Milk Diet and the implementation of a “dressing room” in 2022.

A particularly joyful part of our visit was spending time with the children admitted at the Burn Unit—playing with them is always a highlight of our trips.

Throughout the trip, we shared video clips to give a glimpse into daily life at the hospital and Care4Burn’s work. We also identified new focus areas where Care4Burn can contribute in the future, such as occupational therapy and local community education.

Thank you for your support.

Together, we are making a difference! 🔥

Thank you for your support

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Over the past year, with your support and donations, Care4Burn has directly helped 19 children with severe burns admitted to the Burns Unit at KCMC in Moshi.

The youngest patient is Jesica, a 12-month-old girl who was severely burned in a kitchen accident, while the oldest is Deric, a 16-year-old boy whose clothes caught fire while tending his family’s bonfire.

Your help has provided financial support for 15 surgeries as well as essential medical treatments such as antibiotics and pain relief for children like Jesica and Deric.

In addition to patient care, donations to Care4Burn have been used to purchase surgical equipment that is used several times a week, mainly for burn injuries, but also for other complications like traffic accidents and hyena bites.

Together, we can make a difference – thank you ❤️🙏

Dressing Room

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In November, Care4Burn will travel to Tanzania and KCMC in Moshi. Here we will spend a week in the Burn Unit.

One of the focus areas this year is to help the department establish a “Dressing Room”, a so-called bandage-changing room. With a Dressing Room, all hospitalized patients can receive daily dressings in a separate room instead of in the hospital bed, in front of other patients. A Dressing Room serves as a meeting place for doctors, nurses, occupational- and physiotherapists. Here they can look together at the wounds, at newly placed skin grafts and make plans for further surgery and/or wound healing. The Dressing Room is also a place where the surgeons can see the results of their work from the operating room 💊🔥


The Burn Unit at KCMC has a room that is suitable as a dressing room. We look forward to participate in the establishment of a concrete and decisive part of the burn treatment.


Together we can make a difference! ❤

Invaluable skin-staplers

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When performing burn surgery, staples (skin staplers), which are used to fasten/close transplanted skin, are essential.
A skin-stapler work in the same way as a single stitch with a suture, which is a stitching of the skin with a thread.


Using staples saves time, does not increase the risk of infection and gives the same cosmetic result as a regular suture.
After extensive damage, where large burned areas on the body must be covered with skin grafts, the use of staples is therefore necessary to complete the operation 🙏❤️


In Tanzania, one staple with 35-40 pins costs about DKK 70-80. Depending on the size of the graft, 2-5 staples are usually used for each surgery.


Despite the need being great, staplers are not a part of the surgical equipment at KCMC.


Care4Burn works to ensure access to skin-staplers. If you would like to help us with this task, send us a message at info@care4burn.org 💌


Together we can make a difference

Graciana 7 years old

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In the middle of December 2023, 7-year-old Graciana was exposed to an accident where she was severely burned on her stomach, both groins, the upper part of both thighs as well as her buttocks and back.

In April 2024, Graciana was operated by Dr. Eriksen during his visit to KCMC, where her groin and thigh were prioritized.

It was a long and cumbersome operation, as a lot of scar tissue had to be oxidized away. When many weeks / months pass after the injury before surgery can be carried out, there are ALWAYS challenges. The operations take much longer time and, as in this case with chronic open wounds, it is also more difficult to get the grafts to heal.

During the weeks after the operation, Graciana has received daily wound care in the Burn Unit while she has waited for the next round of operations – scheduled for mid-June, when Dr. Eriksen again visits KCMC ❤️

Thank you for your support to Care4Burn and for helping children like Graciana 🙏🔥

Together we can make a difference!

KCMC April 2024

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At the beginning of April, Dr. Einar Eriksen spent one week in Moshi, where he joined the team at the Burn Unit at KCMC 🏨🔥
It was a valuable and busy stay where he operated 7 patients. All the patients had major wounds and injuries. Some patients were hospitalized with injuries that were several years old, while Jesica, a 12-month-old girl, was seriously burned in a kitchen accident in February.
Jessica’s entire face and scalp had been burned and unfortunately, during the surgeries, the staff had to amputate several of her fingertips, all of which had become necrotic. Jesica had surgery twice during Einar’s stay and she still needs more surgeries, including reconstructing her eyelids.
Thank you for helping children like Jesica get a second chance at life. Together we can make a difference ❤

General Assembly 2024

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Invitation to Care4Burns Ordinary General Assembly 2024 🔥
Wednesday 3 April at 16.30-18, Copenhagen.

Are you interested in development work?
Do you want to make a difference for children with severe burns in Tanzania?

Do you have good ideas or perhaps concrete experience in the field that you want to share? – so come along on April 3 and hear more! 🌟

Registration by March 27: info@care4burn.org
– where you will receive further information about the meeting.

We look forward to hearing from you.
Together we can make a difference!

Veronica is back on her feet

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After almost 2 years of hospitalization and countless operations, Veronica is finally on her feet ❤️

Veronica was admitted to KCMC hospital in July 2022 with burns on nearly 55% of her body, across her abdomen, thighs and parts of her chest. Now, what remains is to close her tracheostomy and retrain her walking function.
We look forward to Veronica being able to go home to family and friends soon 🔥

Thank you for your interest in and support of Car4Burn.

With your support, we can help children like Veronica get a handle on life again 🙏❤️

Janeth 7 years old

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Janeth is 7 years old and was hospitalized after her clothes caught fire. She suffered 2nd degree burns on 45% of her body, on her stomach, thighs and arms.

When such a large part of the body is burned, several skin transplants are needed over a long period. It is important that the individual areas heal up along the way, before the next part of the body is treated.

Each operation costs between DKK 900-1000 plus subsequent care and medication.

Many children, young people and adults come into the Burn Unit at KCMC hospital in Moshi during the year. Some have injuries that happened weeks or months ago, and others are hospitalized urgently after a recent burn accident.

Not everyone survives. But fortunately the vast majority do! And with strong professional skills and equipment, the department works continuously to improve both the treatment and the individual hospitalization time.

With your support, we can continue to help children like Janeth and many more children back to life. With you help we can support the department to a strengthened expertise in modern burn treatment.
THANK YOU ❤️🙏

Thank you for your support in 2023

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Thank you to everyone who has supported Care4Burn in 2023 ❤️

It has been an active and creative year with teaching and exchange between Tanzania and Ethiopia, patient treatments, documentary and premiere. All this would not have been possible without Your interest and support. Thank you for contributing in making a difference for children with burn injuries in Tanzania 🔥🙏

In November, Care4Burn received joyful news from the Bygma Foundation that we have been granted a donation for our work with children with burn injuries in Tanzania. It is a great donation of DKK 100,000 which goes to teaching and exchange of experience of local staff at KCMC Hospital to Addis Ababa in Ethiopia. This donation helps to raise the competence level at KCMC, for the benefit of the patients, their families as well as the hospital and the local community. We are very proud and happy!

Together we can make a difference! 🌟