Job: Sales and training secretary for the first aid area
Do you want to help spread life-saving first aid in Denmark, while creating good customer experiences and ensuring professional course administration? Danish People's Aid has a clear ambition to increase Danes' knowledge of first aid and make life-saving skills available to everyone. We do this by holding first aid courses and training first aiders, first aid instructors and heart runners. […]
Too many children are not looking forward to the summer holidays
By Mirka Mozer, Secretary General of Danish People's Aid For most children, the summer holidays are full of experiences: an ice cream at the harbour, a day in summerland, cinema tickets on a rainy day or french fries after a trip to the beach. The kind of days that give you something to talk about when everyday life hits again. But for far too many children […]
“We are embedded in society”
Danish People's Aid is in a really good place. Denmark needs a strong civil society with volunteers who make themselves available to help others, and therefore even more members and volunteers are needed, says chairman Lars Andersen. WHAT ARE YOU BUSY WITH RIGHT NOW? ”That we get some more members and […]
Holiday volunteer for three decades
For more than 30 years, Brian Nielsen has been a volunteer at Danish People's Aid's holiday camps. Every year, he experiences how a week's holiday can give children and adults new memories, stronger relationships and a much-needed break from a difficult everyday life. When Brian Nielsen volunteered back in 1995, he didn't know that it was […]
Can you get worn down without having had a job?
By Mirka Mozer, Secretary General, Danish People's AidIn Denmark we often talk about burnout in connection with a long life in the labor market, but there are other life conditions that also take a toll. In the debate about burnout, we forget the people who have been out of work for far too long. We simply overlook how difficult it can be to get […]
Danish People's Aid in new collaboration with DCU
Text: Helle Midskov. Photo: DCU In connection with DCU's anniversary, the Danish Camping Union is entering into a new collaboration with the Danish People's Aid. The collaboration will contribute to ensuring that financially needy families with children have the opportunity for holiday experiences, community and new memories – and at the same time bring DCU's values of community and natural presence to life in yet another concrete way. The collaboration between […]
Public helper for 70 years
By Jan Kjær, Better-World.dkThe article was first published in 2022 April 1952, it says on the registration form for Erik Randløv, who as an active member of the Danish People's Aid has been a Samaritan, handyman, collector and helper for the disabled. 70 years as a people's aid worker. That is the incredible statistic for Erik Randløv, who will turn 90 on December 27 [2022]. A 30-hour first aid course in 1952 was the starting point. "My father was with the housing board where we lived when I was a boy. A […]
The food check – an urgent and welcome help. But it must not stop here!
By Mirka Mozer, Secretary General, Danish People's Aid 48,600 children live in poverty in Denmark. They live in families that struggle to make enough money for the next rent and electricity bill. Where there is no money for fruit and vegetables, snowsuits and winter boots. Or to celebrate holidays, birthdays and vacations. In Danish People's Aid we meet […]
From barriers to access: New inclusion project in the Mykolaiv region
In the Mykolaiv region of southern Ukraine, thousands of people with disabilities, children with special needs and internally displaced families live with daily barriers to accessing even the most basic public services. The war has exacerbated an already difficult situation: buildings are damaged, resources are stretched, and many institutions are simply not equipped to […]
Louise helps the same families year after year
Christmas is a celebration of the heart, where it is all about sharing joy. At least that is the case for 30-year-old Louise Nysom from Aarhus, who has been a volunteer with Danish People's Aid for over 10 years - and who is responsible for distributing Christmas aid. She started volunteering at summer camps for children in 2014. […]