In close collaboration with the Norwegian organization Children’s Burn & Wound Care Foundation, the Swedish Burn Care Foundation trains, builds and equips burn clinics in Africa. We are a non-profit organization with the aim of helping to reduce the suffering that hundreds of thousands of children in Africa suffer every year due to a lack of knowledge about, and equipment to treat, burns and severe wounds.
With established contacts and people on site, we finance the construction of new wound care clinics or the renovation of existing buildings. This always happens with the help of local labor, and in connection with existing hospitals that overtake and run the operation after completion. At the University Hospital in Arba Minch in southern Ethiopia, we established our first wound care clinic, completed in 2020.
We collaborate with Salvation Army Aid, who collect used medical equipment from hospitals in Sweden. After examination and servicing, the Swedish Burn Care Foundation finances container transport of the equipment to Ethiopia. Millions of kronors’ worth of equipment is reused and implemented where it is most needed.
We support training initiatives and experience exchanges between healthcare professionals in Ethiopia and staff at the Burn Center at Uppsala University Hospital. This is done in close collaboration with organizations such as the Children’s Burn & Wound Care Foundation (CBWCF) and the international network Interburns.
