The Strings of Hope Foundation is a non-profit organization dedicated to caring for pediatric burn patients. We provide financial assistance to support the treatment and activities of these children during their hospital recovery. We also hope to educate the public about this life changing injury by providing a great wealth of burn information. Our funds are generated primarily through charitable racquet stringing. Our tennis stringers donate their time and skills to local tennis clubs to string tennis racquets using donated string and equipment. This allows one-hundred percent of the normal stringing profits to be donated to child burn victims through the Strings of Hope Foundation.
For more information and to donate, please visit our main site: Strings of Hope Foundation
For the latest news and updates, please visit our blog: Strings of Hope Blog
My friend Johnny and I started the Strings of Hope Foundation during our Junior Year of college at the University of Wisconsin. We both volunteer in the hospital. I volunteer in the Family Practice unit and Johnny in the Burn Unit. While we both see cases of miraculous recovery, there are many horrible cases that pass through the University of Wisconsin Hospital on a daily basis. Some of the most scaring, literally, are the children that are rushed to the hospital with severe burns. Unlike the majority of the hospital’s patients, burn victims were perfectly healthy until the moment of the incident. This makes it all the more traumatic for the parents and, of course, the children. There are numerous charities to support pediatric medical concerns. While these all support great causes, the financial support for specifically pediatric burn care was severly lacking. For example, the pediatric burn victims at the UW Hospital currently have to borrow toys from Pediatrics because the only toys available for them are outdated. And did you know that burns are the leading cause of accidental death for children under the age of 4 years old [source]? As you can hopefully see, burns are a terrible life alerting event. Johnny and I started Strings of Hope to try and provide financial care for pediatric burn patients and to educate the public about the severity of burns. We are excited about the prospect for doing both! Please visit our site to learn more. Thank you!!
