WHAT IS ALUMINUM CANS FOR BURNED CHILDREN?

  Aluminum Cans for Burned Children, or ACBC as it is more commonly called, is a special aluminum can recycling program conducted by northwest Ohio firefighters and local businesses.  Money earned from recycling aluminum beverage cans goes into a special ACBC fund at St. Vincent Mercy Medical Center and is administered by a Board of Trustees composed of medical staff, firefighters, and community leaders. Members of the board evaluate the needs of each young burn patient, then purchase the non-medical items or services -- items not usually covered by insurance -- that are essential to each patients recovery. These items might include special protective clothing that helps skin heal or bicycles that help youngsters exercise burned and injured arms or legs.

   The fund is also used to provide burn prevention education programs for children throughout northwest Ohio and can help pay for costs associated with sending recovering burn survivors to a regional summer camp designed especially for burned children between the ages of 6 to 18.