Every year, hundreds of children suffer severe burn injuries. They receive intensive care at various burn centers in Belgium.
In collaboration with the social services of the burn centers and the Stichting Brandwonden, HBK helps children between the ages of 0 and 18 by:
Financial support for burn patients and their families
- Intervention in medical costs.
- Reimbursement of pressure suits and sun protective clothing.
- Accommodating skin and hair transplants.
- Financing transport and accommodation costs of parents.
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Promoting reintegration into society
- Organizing an annual meeting day.
- Supporting spa and holiday camps.
- Organizing child-oriented activities such as a pony initiation, a sailing initiation, …
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Provide support to burn and rehabilitation centers
- Decorating and furnishing treatment and meeting areas.
- Financing research projects.
- Purchases of supporting materials and toys.
- Funding equipment or supplies to make patient treatment as pleasant as possible.
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Burns prevention
- Giving theoretical and practical prevention lessons in primary schools.
- Offering didactically sound teaching packages free of charge to nursery schools and the second grade of primary schools.
- Distributing HBK prevention leaflets in six languages to young families.
- Distributing the color strip ‘Lulu and Pompom’ to toddlers.
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