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Empowering Communities

To decrease the rate of burns incurred by children, a team visits preschools and elementary schools to provide outreach and information. This innovative program reaches children, teachers, and families throughout Nicaragua’s most underserved and at-risk communities.

Asociación Pro-Niños Quemados de Nicaragua Burn Prevention
Objectives

To reduce the incidence of burn related hospitalizations in children.

To raise awareness about appropriate first aid measures and empower community behavioral change.

Over the last 6 years, our burn prevention program has reached:

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Adults trained as Train
of Trainers (ToT’s)



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School-aged children with
burn prevention education

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Schools visited in the departments of Managua, Masaya, Granada, Chinandega, Jinotega, and Matagalpa with the highest incidence of burns.



Puma Energy Foundation | APROQUEN

Puma Energy Foundation
| APROQUEN

PUMA APROQUEN

Thanks to the support of Puma Energy Foundation, APROQUEN has been able to implement the first documented Burn Prevention Program in the Latin American region. This program seeks to reduce the number of burn-related hospitalizations in children through a two-prong approach that includes capacity building, public awareness and education. 

In the last 6 years, APROQUEN has provided more than 16,000 children and 2,900 adults with burn prevention education in the 6 departments of Nicaragua (Managua, Masaya, Chinandega, Matagalpa, Granada, and Jinotega) with the highest incidence of burns.

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