Jannu Ferides is an interdisciplinary, independent, non-profit association, founded by a group of nurses from different countries, whose founding objective, in line with the Barcelona’s Declaration on Wound Care signed by the European Wound Management Association (EWMA), the National Group for Advice on Pressure Ulcers and Chronic Wounds (GNEAUPP) and the Spanish Wound Society (SEHER) in March 2025, which defines access to wound care as a fundamental right, helping anyone around the world, especially in low-income or underdeveloped healthcare settings, to have access to safe, effective and equitable wound care and skin integrity based on the best available scientific and technological evidence.
Mission, Values and Shared Commitment
Our mission
At Jannu Ferides, we work to ensure that everyone, everywhere in the world, especially those in low-income environments, has access to safe and equitable care for their wounds and skin integrity.
A shared compromise
At Jannu Ferides, we believe that wound care and skin integrity are not solely the responsibility of healthcare systems, but rather a collective commitment that brings together professionals, organizations, companies, and individuals driven by solidarity.
Our 10 areas of action
At Jannu-ferides, we work on the basis of 10 pillars or areas of action with the aim of serving all humanity, regardless of country, religion, gender or economic capacity, offering equal care with total transparency in our financial operations and independent decision-making from our external funding sources. These pillars are:
People suffering from wounds
To this end, we want to provide or facilitate solutions that improve the health and quality of life of people with or at risk of suffering from wounds, mainly children and people with chronic health conditions or neglected diseases.
(Complications from acute or surgical wounds, pressure injuries and other dependency-related injuries, skin problems related to incontinence, ostomies, vascular wounds, injuries in diabetic patients, burns, epidermolysis bullosa and other low-prevalence wounds, oncological wounds, etc.)
Low- and middle-income settings
Helping people with wounds in low- and middle-income settings, anywhere in the world, to meet needs not covered by the relevant national or local health systems.
Patient participation and empowerment
Promoting the participation of patients and their families in decision-making regarding wound care and skin integrity.
Training and development of healthcare professionals
Promoting the training and development of different healthcare professionals in wound care (prevention and treatment) and patient safety in skin integrity.
Nursing
Promoting and developing the role of nursing as the healthcare professional closest to patients, as well as that of other professionals in the healthcare team in the interdisciplinary care of people with wounds.
Interdisciplinary teamwork
Encouraging and promoting interdisciplinary environments for wound care and patient safety in skin integrity in healthcare institutions at different levels of care (primary care, specialised care and social and health care).
Governments and health administrations
Assisting governments and health administrations in defining global frameworks that promote adequate interdisciplinary wound care and patient safety in skin integrity.
Solidarity and social commitment
Promoting and facilitating spaces that enable solidarity and social commitment at a personal and institutional levelamong health science professionals and students involved or interested in wound care and skin integrity, as well as companies and organisations with a social commitment.
Sustainable innovation
Promoting and facilitating innovation and the development of technological and organisational solutions for sustainable wound care and skin integrity, especially in low-income environments.
Environmental sustainability
Working on the basis of environmental sustainability and with a commitment to the responsible and sustainable economic development of local resources where we operate.
Our lines of action
At Jannu-Ferides, we carry out the following types of activities, which may also be carried out in collaboration with other associations with similar aims or under the auspices of government entities
Individual care for patients with wounds
Projects providing individual care to patients with wounds that cannot be treated by local health systems (providing assessment, establishing a prevention and/or treatment plan and supervising it), providing specific material resources for these purposes when necessary and feasible, always in collaboration with at least one local health professional responsible for the patient, who will be provided with training and clinical support.
Emergency and disaster response
Projects for the care and treatment of people who require wound care after emergency treatment in catastrophic or emergency situations such as natural disasters, major emergencies, humanitarian conflicts or armed conflicts, always in collaboration with other organisations with similar aims.
Wound care training projects
Definition, implementation and evaluation of training projects in wound care (prevention and treatment) and patient safety in skin integrity in health institutions or systems in low-income countries where these do not exist or are not implemented
Sponsorship of wound care teams
Support in scientific and methodological advice, material resources and/or human resources to interdisciplinary structures for wound care and patient safety in skin integrity in countries and environments with low purchasing power.
Advising healthcare institutions
Advice to health institutions and systems on the development and implementation of interdisciplinary structures for wound care (prevention and treatment) as well as for patient safety in skin integrity.
If you would like to suggest a specific action, please contact us and we will be happy to listen to you, and if possible, help you.