Burn Fund – BC Professional Fire Fighters Association Burn Fund

The Burn Fund has:

Given $1 million dollars to build the BC Professional Fire Fighters’ Burn, Plastic and Trauma Unit at Vancouver General Hospital.

Supported Burn Units and Burn Treatment Centres across BC.

Helped establish the BC Professional Fire Fighters’ Burn and Wound Healing Research Laboratory and it’s cutting edge research.

Increased awareness of burn prevention measures with education initiatives such as Burn Awareness Week and Too Hot for Tot and seasonal safety tips.

Helped hundreds of adult burn survivors through the Future is Mine.

Over 1200 children from six to eighteen have attended the Camp for Young Burn Survivors since 1994.

Provided financial assistance to those struggling for necessary, but unfunded, burn garments and other equipment.

Completed a $13.1m capital campaign to raise the funds to build the new Burn Fund Centre – a home away from home for burn and trauma survivors.