Oak Foundation Denmark Social Issues Grants (2008)

• A Race Against Breast Cancer

  To support the development of a number of new molecular and protein indicators, as well as to examine the cancer tissue of breast cancer patients in order to identify the optimal treatment for them. This scientific study comprises analysis of changes in breast cancer tissue, cell biology studies and clinical examinations.

• Behandlingshjemmet Kokkedal

  To support a project called “Orphanage children meet and work with art” at Kokkedal School for maladjusted children, with the aim of exposing the children to new modes of expression. The children (aged 9 to 12) express themselves through art, visit galleries and museums and create art for public exhibition.

• Boligfonden for Enlige Mødre og Fædre

  To renew the piping in a home owned by Boligfonden for Enlige Mødre og Fædre at Virginiavej in Copenhagen. The home, which has been in existence for 25 years, aims to give single parents the possibility of receiving an education and of building a network for themselves and their children that they can use for the rest of their lives.

• Børnehaven Spiren

  To establish a new playground with plants and trees in the kindergarten “Spiren” in Horsens that caters to children with extensive handicaps. The aim of the playground is both to teach children about the environment and to give them a sensory experience through looking at trees, plants, flowers and animals.

• Børnehjertefonden

  To support the publication of a booklet aimed at providing information to young people with heart disease, as this group of young people lacks information on how to live a full life despite their disease. The booklet will also be available as a download.

• Danish Doc Production Aps

  1. To support the production of the first Danish documentary film about the lives of lesbians. This film will examine lesbianism from different perspectives, including the double pressure lesbian women are often subjected to – being both women and lesbian.
  2. To support production of the film Organs without limits which casts light on the issue of commercial organ sales. In Denmark normally about 600 people are awaiting a transplant and several die before an organ is made available to them. In Moldovia, kidneys from impoversished live donors are sold to western Europeans waiting for transplants. Often the "Donor" becomes very ill due to a lack of aftercare. The film focuses on dilemmas of the seller as well as the buyer and how different European countries handle the problems involved.

• Det Nationale Fotomuseum

  To support the project “Seven”, which includes an exhibition about women in Denmark who are forced to remain in violent marriages for a minimum of seven years before they can obtain a residence permit. The exhibition opens in May 2010 at “Den sorte Diamant” (Det Nationale Fotomuseum). It will comprise photos of such women taken by Tine Enghoff, and a video in which women tell their own stories in their own languages. A book is also to be published.

• Eva´s Ark Interkulturelt Kvindeforum

  To support Eva’s Ark, an independent organisation which aims to encourage the positive integration of foreign women by strengthening their participation in society; and secondly, to create a space where women can interact irrespective of their nationality. (Over two years)

• Eyeworks Denmark

  To support, in conjunction with the Danish Film Institute, a documentary series of six episodes, “Kunsten at overleve som barn” about children (aged 9 to11) from poor families, in order to foster understanding of those people in society who live in extremely difficult circumstances. The series will be shown on Danish television.

• Foreningen Børnelejren på Langeland

  To support the establishment of ”Multihus” at Søgård Hovedgård in Langeland (Foreningen Børnelejren) in order to hold camps for children and youngsters from families which lack resources. The camp will be able to accommodate 36 children at a time, from all over Denmark.

• Foreningen Cancerramte Børn

  To support, at a very early stage, families with children who have had cancer by arranging “Healthy brother and sister weekends”, establishing groups to learn how to deal with grief, and organising evenings for parents to assist them with coping with the loss of a child. The aim of the project is, through professional leadership, to assist families in creating a network with other families in the same situation, and to offer individual psychological assistance.

• Foreningen Hjemløsedagen

  To support the opening of a shelter “Nødnatherberg” for the first three months of 2009 for homeless illegal immigrants in Denmark, who do not have the right to use public homeless shelters. The shelter will relieve the worst plight of these people by providing food and protection from the cold.

• GAM3 – Urban Sports Organization

  To support GAM3, an organisation seeking to integrate young people in organisations and clubs by using basketball and streetdance. GAM3 works together with local organisations, police, SSP consultants, etc, with the aim of integrating those young people who would not normally consider joining a sports club. In 2007, there were 9,000 youngsters who took part in one or more events, and in 2008 this number is expected to rise to 15,000.

• Heller Film

  To support the film “Fri os for fængsel” which is about training ethnic minority women to initiate change processes in three housing areas in Copenhagen that focus on male children from minority families. The aim of the film is to create a debate on this issue, especially among women from ethnic minorities.

• Husets Venner

  To help purchase a minibus for “Husets Venner”, an association for young people suffering from Alzheimer’s disease or mental disorders, and which also assists close relatives.

• Inkontinens

  To support a film about children suffering from incontinence, to increase awareness about the problem in kindergartens, schools, after-school care, and in sport and scout organisations, and to overcome the ignorance surrounding this issue.

• KFUM-Spejderne i Herning, Sct. Johannes Gruppe

  To support the establishment of handicap-friendly bath and toilet facilities in "Kiderishytten" (a scout hut) in Herning in order to create an optimal physical setting so that children and young people with handicaps are able to join the scout movement.

• KVINFO

  To support an online forum for the conference “Mentoring and Networking: Women Building Trust and Social Capital in Our Cities”, which KVINFO will be organising in cooperation with the Royal Library on 20 – 21 November 2009. The aim of the global forum is to focus on women’s resources, and to promote mentoring and networking as a strategy to include immigrant and refugee women.

• Kræftens Bekæmpelse

  To support a book for children called "Cornelia has Cancer" published by the Danish Cancer Campaign, which describes the course of treatment followed when a child gets cancer. The aim is to help children with cancer to understand the treatments at the hospital and to help initiate difficult conversations about cancer with them.

• Jonna Olesen

  To help fund the construction of a fenced playground for children in Qimmersalik, Narsaq in Greenland, which does not have existing playground facilities. In supporting the initiative, the local authority has provided land and levelled the area.

• Mary Fonden

  To support a project to prevent bullying in Denmark and Greenland that uses various activities to promote values such as tolerance, respect, care and courage among children between the ages of three and eight years, and by publishing a book on bullying in collaboration with Helle Rabøl and publishers Gyldendal.

• Mødestedet

  To support the renovation of kitchen facilities, which no longer meet government health standards, in “Mødestedet”, a day centre for the underprivileged in Copenhagen.

• Multifunktionsrum

  To finance a multi-purpose room at a centre for battered women in Randers, where the full-time music therapist will be able to help children living with violence to work through their experiences using both music therapy and conversational therapy. The room will also be used as a place where women and their children can take part in creative activities, play music, hold discussions or follow courses.

• Reden International

  To support Reden in its work to advise and offer practical support to foreign women primarily from Eastern Europe who have either been trafficked or are living in Denmark and working as prostitutes, and who are not included in the Danish social security programme. (Over three years)

• Safe and Alive

  To fund a safe-house that helps trafficked women who are originally from outside the EU, to rebuild their lives without prostitution. The support helps finance practical necessities and activities that will improve their skills.

• Salvation Army, Den Åbne Dør

  To purchase new furnishings for The Open Door centre as the existing furniture is worn out and in need of urgent replacement. The Open Door is a refuge for battered women and has existed since 1978. The institution is staffed with pedagogical and psychological professionals who provide supervision and counselling on demand. The refuge houses up to 12 women and their children. Typically the women are aged between 18 and 20.

• SFINX Film/TV Aps

  To transfer a film on contraceptive methods from videotape to DVD. A number of languages will be added on the DVD format, as the film is primarily targeted at ethnic minorities. The DVD will be accessible on the Internet, in libraries, language schools and various places within the health system.

• Udviklingscenter Familiehusene

  To support and develop methodoligies to foster necessary changes in behaviour in families experiencing problems. Udviklingscenteret continuously seeks to improve and develop the skills of its counsellors in dealing with those youngsters and their families who need special care initiatives and support in order to change the way their families function.

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