Thank you to our amazing partner Angel Charity for Children for supporting our Milo & Moxie: Smart Safety Rangers™ and Wildfire Prevention™ programs. Because of them, we’ll be able to educate 28,000 Pima County children about fire safety, burn prevention, and wildfire preparation and prevention.
Every year, wildfires burn thousands of acres across Arizona, risking lives, destroying properties, and harming our state’s natural resources. This week is Southwest Wildfire Awareness Week, a time to draw awareness to wildfire prevention. The Arizona Burn Foundation is working diligently to educate children and families through Milo and Moxie: Wildfire Prevention, a rhyming storybook […]
Sunday, February 5th marks the start of 2023’s National Burn Awareness Week! This year’s theme is “Hot Liquids Burn like Fire!”. Take some time in the next coming weeks to practice strategies that will help prevent scald injuries. Need some ideas? Order a Milo & Moxie: Smart Safety Ranger book to read with your family! […]
Thank you to the Saguaros for sponsoring our Camp Nurture. Camp Nurture is designed for burn survivors ages 0-6 and their families to better understand and heal physically, emotionally, and socially after a burn injury. This therapeutic camp provides families with a community of support and coping skills to incorporate beyond camp. Breakout session topics include […]
Happy New Year! Each new year brings with it the excitement of what is possible. It’s a fresh start as you start a new calendar year, you learn to write the correct year when dating documents, you make your new year’s resolutions and then you count the days until you forget what those resolutions were. […]
Another incredible community smoke alarm walk season has come to an end. We would like to extend a HUGE THANK YOU to the 7 fire departments and 229 volunteers that helped make our fall 2022 smoke alarm walks possible. We were able to install 673 smoke alarms in 200 high-risk homes across 7 different cities, […]
The Holiday Season is such a great time to celebrate this year full of memories with family and friends. Here at ABF we are also in a celebrating mood. Our year has been filled with activities and support for the burn community and it is because of all of the support you have been providing. […]
GivingTuesday was launched in 2012 to create a day that encourages people to do good. Over the past ten years, this global movement that inspires millions of people to collaborate, give, and celebrate generosity. On November 29, 2022, GivingTuesday will kick off the season of giving by inspiring people to make a positive change in […]
During these past several months we have found some potential gaps in the ABF camps programs while talking to survivors and their families and looking at how we deliver the ABF mission. So coming into 2023 we will be hosting 6 camps instead of the 4 camps like in past years. After taking a deeper […]
As we enter the last three months of 2022, we are constantly amazed by the generosity of all of you, our community of donors and volunteers. Because of that generosity, we are able to continue assisting burn survivors at the moment of crisis at both the Arizona Burn Center and the newly established burn center […]
