Donations are granted for a number of projects in Denmark and abroad.
The Erik Thune Foundation supports the therapeutic sessions for children who mourn the loss of a close relative, held by the organization "Børns Vilkår".
The children are invited to speak freely of their grief and thus understand that grief has many faces and expressions.
The Erik Thune Foundation supports the summer camps at the island of Langeland for children with difficult family backgrounds.
The Erik Thune Foundation supports summer camp activities for young people with haemophilia.
The Erik Thune Foundation funds the Red Cross project "Psychosocial Activities for School children of Jenin", the main objective which is to improve the well-being, confidence, and self-confidence of the refugee children of the West Bank through educational and leisure activities.
Up to 2000 children from grades 5 - 6 are anticipated to participate in a number of psychosocial activities, such as guided workshops, community workshops and a variety of summer activities.
About 5300 people, including the parents, are anticipated to take part in the summer activities.
Danish Red Cross: Psychosocial activities for school children of Jenin, the West Bank, Palestine
Danish Red Cross: Psychosocial activities for school children of Jenin, the West Bank, Palestine
The Erik Thune Foundation supports the Faraja Home in Tanzania.
In Swahili "faraja" means "relief" and the physically and mentally disabled children between 6 and 15 years of age, who live at the Faraja Home in the foothills of the Kilimanjaro have found relief from living in hiding in their own homes, as is the custom of Tanzanians who feel ashamed at having a disabled child.
The Faraja Home in Tanzania
The Erik Thune Foundation is the main sponsor for the project Sapiik, which translates into "courageous". The project is a youth-to-youth mentoring scheme located in the capital of Greenland, Nuuk.
The purpose of the project is to create pattern breakers among the many pupils that do not continue their education after primary school.
The target group consists of pupils from two 9th grades in the primary school "Samuel Kleinschmidt", which also takes pupils from the surrounding villages.
During a two year period, young volunteer mentors will arrange multiple activities with the aim of improving the self-confidence of the pupils and increasing their learning qualifications. The goal is to provide the pupils with the ambition and courage to apply for secondary youth education and at the same time provide them with the basis for completing their education.
The Sapiik project is a creation of path-breaking voluntary social work among young people in Greenland.
To learn more about Sapiik please visit: www.fgb.dk
Sapiik: Mentoring project for Greenland Children
The Erik Thune Foundation supports the IBIS project, "Pre-school Children of Guatemala".
The targeted group consists of 400 children, aged 4 - 6, who are taking part in 12 pre-school groups in the San Martin Sacatepequez community in the province of Quetzaltenango. The purpose of the project is to stimulate playgroups, learning groups and to highlight the importance of education in an area, where 'children-at-play' all too quickly will turn into 'children-at-work'.
Games and other educational materials are developed in the language of the Maya. These are based on the culture of the Maya and on the everyday lives of the children, which even 13 years after the end of the civil war often are determined by violent conflict, high levels of crime, and sordid poverty. 25% of the adult population is illiterate, 20% of all children are undernourished, and infant mortality is a staggering 15%.
The native Maya population sustains itself through primitive farming at subsistence level and on average will attend school for no more than three years.
IBIS is working with a local partner, the Unodesma.
IBIS: Pre-schooling in Guatemala
The Erik Thune Foundation funds the construction of a school for 220 children - victims of war and often amputees - with three classrooms and its own water supply.
The children are offered the opportunity to have an education and thus the foundation for better and more independent lives.
Engineers Without Borders: School for War Victims in Sierra Leone
The aim of the project is to secure the continuing operation and development of the school in Pah, which was started in 2003.
During the three-year project, the existing provision of meals for approximately 150 pupils will be maintained, in order to strengthen the children's general state of health.
The three teachers employed at the school will be offered relevant supplementary education and new teaching materials will be purchased to ensure the constant improvement of teaching.
Moreover, the existing school building that includes three classrooms will have a small extension built, which will serve as storage room and will be used by the teachers for preparation and exchange of experience.
The Erik Thune Foundation is supporting the activities in the Women's Crisis Centers, with the aim of providing a safe environment for mothers and children.
Activities include trips to the movies, the zoo, the occasional circus, watching dvd's at home, etc.
More than 500 children benefitted from the activities in 2009.
The Erik Thune Foundation funds the construction by MS ActionAid Denmark of 15 "green" schools in Nepal for children aged 5-16.
Schools in Nepal are traditionally constructed of bricks and sheet metal - a bad choice for a climate with temperatures ranging from above 100F in summer to below freezing point in winter, and where classes are often cancelled, because of extreme temperatures.
The donation from the Erik Thune Legat makes innovative school building possible.
The "green" school buildings are child friendly in the sense that they ensure a comfortable indoor climate, providing a better learning environment. In addition, the school buildings are earthquake proof, inexpensive, and climate friendly. The methods of construction are low-tech, make use of local materials and provide work for local people.
MS ActionAid Denmark: Green Schools in Nepal
The Erik Thune Foundation supports the Plan B organization, which in the Copenhagen area does preventative work with young people on the verge of criminal delinquency.
The Erik Thune Foundation funds PLAN Denmark, which, in cooperation with PLAN Kenya, operates a Violence Recovery center. Here 80 victims of violent and/or sexual attacks can, upon request receive medical treatment and psychosocial advice.
PLAN Denmark: Gender Recovery Violence Center, Nairobi, Kenya
In the Philippines, thousands of children live in the streets and are often subjected to sexual abuse by adults.
The relief organization Stairway, runs a rehabilitation centre on the island of Mindoro, close to the capital Manila. The Erik Thune Foundation funds the scholarship program for 75 children.
Stairway: Street children of Manila, the Philippines
The Erik Thune Foundation funds the project Sunshine Youth, which is run by volunteers in The Danish Red Cross Youth.
The project assists young members of ethnic communities in the 8th, 9th and 10th grades of the State Schools in socially disadvantaged areas in the choice of youth education and/or occupation.
The purpose is to improve the self-confidence of the youngsters and help them stay in school and find an apprenticeship after they have completed their schooling.
The project also contributes to a reduction of the very high dropout rate among young members of ethnic communities in youth education programmes.
The volunteers act as mentors for the young people and help them find information about education and job opportunities, write applications and apply for apprenticeships. In addition, they arrange various social activities for the young people.
The Danish Red Cross Youth - Project Sunshine Youth
The Danish Red Cross Youth - Project Sunshine Youth
The Erik Thune Foundation funds the WENIRUDA organization in building and maintaining four kindergartens for children aged 3-6 in the poor rural district of Arua in Uganda.
In Uganda the children of poor families are often undernourished and lacking in basic skills when they start school at around the age of 7, and the kindergartens aim to change this social and economic bias, which would otherwise remain with the poorest children for the rest of their lives.
WENIRUDA: Building and maintaining Kindergartens in Uganda
The Erik Thune Foundation supports charity work in favour of disadvantaged children and young people.
For a list of previously supported projects and organizations please look HERE