Care4Burn donates electric dermatome to KCMC – essential in modern burn care

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In cases of severe burns, there is often a limited area of healthy skin available for grafting. Especially in children with extensive injuries, it is absolutely crucial to harvest thin and even skin grafts – and to be able to reuse the same donor site multiple times.

🔸 An electric dermatome makes this possible. Unlike manual tools such as the Watson or Humby knife, an electric dermatome allows for grafts to be taken thin enough for the donor area to be used again. This is key to safe and effective treatment – and often critical for the patient’s recovery.

🔸 That’s why an electric dermatome is not just useful, but essential in modern burn care – and should be available in hospitals like KCMC.

Care4Burn is proud to share that we have received a dedicated donation used to purchase an electric dermatome – a Humeca D80 – for the Burn Unit at KCMC.

Together, we can make a difference 🔥❤️

Your support makes a difference

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Over the past six months, Care4Burn, in collaboration with KCMC, has directly helped nine patients – both children and adults – with severe burn injuries and related complications such as chronic wounds, infections, malnutrition and respiratory damage.


The support we have provided has covered life-saving medication and surgical procedures, with the costs in the most serious cases reaching 2.6 million TZS per patient, equivalent to approximately 7,000 DKK.


All patients have now been discharged and back in their own homes – and thanks to your contribution, they have had access to treatment that would not have been possible otherwise.


Thank you to everyone who makes our work possible ❤️🔥

Lasting Change – Outreach Visits to District Hospitals

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One area we have discussed for a long time in Care4Burn is finally becoming a reality: outreach visits to district hospitals that refer burn patients to the Burn Unit at KCMC.
During our most recent trip to Tanzania in November 2024, we sponsored an outreach visit to Haj District Hospital – a hospital that refers around 20% of KCMC’s burn patients.

The visit clearly demonstrated the huge difference face-to-face meetings can make. Initial hesitation quickly turned into open dialogue about challenges, needs, and experiences – especially regarding first aid for burns. The visit strengthened collaboration between staff at the district and specialized hospitals, with a strong focus on training, capacity building, and improving treatment coordination.

We are therefore proud and happy to announce that we have received funding to carry out 12 new outreach visits in 2025/2026! 🙌

The staff is already busy planning, and we are excited to follow the development and see the positive outcomes these initiatives will bring.
These outreach visits are a crucial step toward building sustainable improvements in burn care in Tanzania – from the first contact at district hospitals to specialized treatment at KCMC.

We cheer for all the amazing healthcare professionals working every day for better burn treatment 🔥🤝

Salma 14 years old

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Salma’s Story – When Help Reaches Beyond Burns 🔸

14-year-old Salma was bitten by a snake on her right foot. The unfortunate bite developed into a chronic wound that required a skin graft to heal.

Although Care4Burn’s main focus is burn patients, we supported her treatment and the necessary surgery. It’s important to us that the surgical equipment we’ve donated to KCMC Hospital also benefits other patients – like Salma – who need skin grafts to regain their life and daily routines.

Together, we can make a difference ❤️🔥

Occupational therapy – new equipment for the Burn Unit

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Occupational therapy is crucial for the rehabilitation of burn-injured children at Kilimanjaro Christian Medical Center (KCMC). The focus is on rebuilding the children’s physical functions while maintaining their joy in play and learning during often lengthy hospital stays.

Heavenlight and Thomas, the department’s dedicated occupational therapists, work daily with the children to strengthen their muscles and tissues as part of the healing process, ensuring they can return to a normal everyday life after discharge.

Ergonomic equipment such as “walking chairs,” “standing frames,” and “balance boards” plays a vital role in this process and in the children’s rehabilitation and progress. Care4Burn supports this work and, in 2024, commissioned specialized ergonomic equipment for the department. The equipment has been handcrafted by the hospital’s carpenter.

We are delighted to share that the necessary and specialized training equipment was delivered to the Burn Unit this week. The equipment helps provide the best conditions for the children’s rehabilitation.

Together, we create better conditions for the children’s health and quality of life.

Thank you to everyone who supports Care4Burn ❤️🔥

Thank you for your support in 2024

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Thank you so much to everyone who has supported Care4Burn in 2024.

It has been a positive and productive year. Thanks to your interest and support, we have been able to sponsor patient treatments, provide education and knowledge exchange, and initiate field visits to District Hospitals that refer burn patients to KCMC Hospital.

Thank you for helping making a difference for children with burn injuries in Tanzania 🙏🔥

If you want to learn more about Care4Burn’s work and why we believe this patient group deserves our attention, please read more here: www.care4burn.org


Together we can make a difference!

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