Care4Burn – Charity event

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Welcome to a meaningful and inspirational evening!

Care4Burn invites you to our charity event and to the premiere of the documentary ”The Forgotten” 🔥
Burn injured children in Tanzania deserve our attention and help. Behind Care4Burn’s works lies a vision to make a difference to the many children and youngsters that every day are injured due to open flames in connection to cooking and housekeeping in their homes.
We want to share the story behind our work and give you insight into how we together with Kilimanjaro Christian Medical Centre in Moshi contributes in making a positive difference.

PROGRAM:

At 19.00 The doors open. Welcome drink, photo exhibition and “live performance music”.

At 19.30 Welcome to the premiere by Care4Burn’s founder Karianne W. Fjære.

At 19.45 Introduction and screening of the documentary “The Forgotten”, filmed and edited by George M. Doumani, followed by drinks, canapés, photo exhibition and “live performance music”.

At 20.30 Presentation of Care4Burn by founder Karianne W. Fjære.

At 21.00 Rounding off by debater and actor Farshad Kholghi.

Participation in the event costs DKK 100. The money is a donation to Care4Burn’s project areas without administrative costs.

Registration and payment are made via payment link or QR-code.

We look forward to seeing you! ❤

Thanks to our sponsors.

Together we can make a difference!

See the invitationen here.
George M. Doumani: www.georgedoumani.com
Farshad Kholghi: www.farshadkholghi.dk
Eves Event: @eves.event
ODDS AND ENDS: www.oddsandends.dk

Exchange program to Addis Ababa, Ethiopia

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Dr. Theresia Edward and nurse Christina Saria from the Burn Unit at KCMC traveled to Addis Ababa, Ethiopia earlier this week. For the next month they will join the burn-team at the Myung Sung Christian Medical Center and participate in an extended exchange program.

Support for teaching and training in wound care and burn surgery is one of Care4Burn’s focus areas. Since 2011, we have worked to strengthen the local healthcare competencies within burn care treatment. Now we are expanding our efforts in collaboration with the MCM-hospital in Ethiopia. Our vision for 2023-2024 is to give more colleagues, like Theresia and Christina, the opportunity for a long-term exchange programme.

You can meet Theresia and Christina in the documentary “The Forgotten,” which has a premiere on Tuesday the 28th of November at Odds and Ends in Nordhavn. We will soon share details on how you can participate in the event! Stay tuned for updates! ❤️

The Forgotten – Care4Burn documentary

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During the last year, we have been working on a documentary film about burn injuries in Tanzania and  Care4Burn’s history and work.

The documentary is now in its final phase, and we are looking forward to show it during the autumn at a major event.

The film has been titled “The forgotten” and is filmed and edited by photographer/short film producer George M Doumani.

More information will follow in the coming weeks 🌟

Gilbert Olomi – a nurse at KCMC

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Gilbert Olomi is a nurse at KCMC’s Burn unit, where he has worked for the past 6 years. He is happy with his work and he finds taking care of the hospitalized burn patients very meaningful ❤️

One of the things that is particularly important to him is that the patients do not experience severe pain and discomfort when taking care of the wounds and when changing the bandages. That is why Gilbert has just started a training course in anaesthesiology, so that he can ensure relevant and effective pain relief for the individual patient when taking care of their burn injuries.

Together we can make a difference 🙏

Visit to KCMC in February

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Care4Burn has a close collaboration with Children’s Burn & Wound Care Foundation (CBWCF) in Ethiopia. In February, burn surgeon Einar Eriksen, who is the founder of CBWCF and works as a plastic surgeon at the burn unit in Addis Ababa, was once again at KCMC to treat and operate hospitalized burn injured children and young adults. The goal was also to share knowledge and exchange various experiences with the Burn Unit’s staff.

The committed nurses at the Burn Unit at KCMC, which is led by chief physician Dr. Theresia, also participated in the operations Dr. Einar performed.

Dr. Einar operated on, among other patients, a smaller boy hospitalized with burn injuries to his face and chest. He performed a skin graft on the boy’s face. Dr. Einar also operated a boy who, due to untreated burn injuries as a child, had developed severe contractions around both his feet. Old scar tissue was removed, and with skin grafting and a cast on the ankles, the surgical team once again secured the boy’s future mobility.

Based on ongoing fundraising, Care4Burn regularly sends new equipment to KCMC, including mesh machines, Humby knives and blades, in addition to a wide range of skin staplers. This equipment is instrumental in enabling the mentioned, and often quite complicated, operations to be carried out in the unit.

Together we can make a difference.

Birthday donations

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Congratulations to Andreea Vlad and Nuno Costa.

In the past month, Care4Burn have been fortunate to receive two Birthday donations for a total of DKK 13.380, which corresponds to approximately 16 operations.

Thank you, we greatly appreciate your support – Thank you to your friends and family who have all donated to give burn injured patients in Tanzania a second chance in life.

Together we can make a difference!

Patient support for Veronica 6 years old

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Every quarter we get an overview from Kilimanjaro Hospital (KCMC) presenting which children and what type of treatment Care4Burn has contributed support to in the previous months.

From May-December 2022, the financial support from Care4Burn has contributed to treatment and care of a total of 12 children; Four boys and eight girls – aged 4 months to 6 years. All these children have been injured due to an open fire (most often the family courtyard) or by falling near boiling water, oil or food. This applies for the majority of child burn injuries in Tanzania, and it is because the family’s cooking area is usually on the ground or is not shielded in separate rooms.

One of the children who has received support from Care4Burn most recently is Veronica. Veronica is 6 years old and came to KCMC two months after her accident. She was burned on 55% of her body, over her stomach, thighs and parts of her chest. Veronica has been hospitalized at KCMC since July 2022. Her wounds are treated daily, and surgeons have attempted to make the first minor transplants from the small portion of skin that is still intact and can be used for skin transplantation. It is a long and cumbersome process, and it is expensive and demanding to treat Veronica and get her back on her feet. Still, Veronica was happy and always smiling when we met her at our visit to KCMC in December ❤️

General Assembly 2023

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Invitation to Care4Burn’s General Assembly 2023.

Tuesday the 28th of March at 4.30-6 pm, in Copenhagen.

Are you interested in development work?

Do you want to make a difference for children with severe burn injuries in Tanzania?

Do you have a good idea or perhaps concrete experience from the field that you would like to share? – then join us on March the 28th and hear more!

Registration by March the 14th to: info@care4burn.org

– where you will receive further information about the meeting.

We look forward to hear from you.

Together we can make a difference!

Presentation at Moalem Weitemeyer

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Thank you Moalem Weitemeyer for your interest in and support to Care4Burn and for spending your morning learning about burn injuries in Tanzania and this “forgotten” patient group 🔥❤️

Together we can make a difference!

Travel to Tanzania 2022

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At the end of November, Care4Burn traveled to Tanzania and Kilimanjaro Hospital (KCMC) in Moshi. Together with a talented team from Addis Ababa, we spent a productive and meaningful week in the hospital’s burn department. Meeting the staff and patients made a big impression and gave a lot of food for thought.

In addition to donating surgical equipment, Care4Burn facilitated several educational sessions and on-site training, as well as interviewing both staff and patients, in order to further develop our patient sponsorship program.

With the good help of our colleagues in Addis Ababa, we started up the ‘Banana Milk Diet’ in the department, a diet which strengthens both the patients’ nutritional status and the healing process.

Burn patients deserve our attention.

With this goal in mind, we are, with great help from the talented photographer/short film maker George M Doumani, making a documentary about burn injuries in Tanzania, the important work being done at KCMC and the history of Care4Burn.

Together we can make a difference.