Roskilde Festival

DKK 1.5 million to fight modern slavery

© Mikkel Østergaard

Source: Roskilde Festival

DKK 956,743 (approx. € 128,421) was the result after eight days of collecting refund from bottles, cans and cups at this year’s Roskilde Festival. That is the same as every festival-goer donating an average of 12 bottles to the festival’s humanitarian focus.
The great result is achieved thanks to a huge effort from about 700 voluntary refund collectors and support from the Roskilde-goers at this year’s festival.

On top of the amount from the refund collection, The Roskilde Festival Society donates DKK 543,257 (approx. € 72,920) from the Roskilde Festival ’06 profits. The total amount reaches DKK 1.5 million (approx. € 201,341) – money to help fight child slavery in Cambodia.

© Mikkel Østergaard

Act against Slavery in Cambodia

With the campaign ’Act against Slavery,’ Roskilde Festival and DanChurchAid focused on modern slavery in Cambodia . The profits from the campaign are donated to two Cambodian organisations Ponleur Kumar and Friends who both work on preventing and fighting modern slavery.

Ponleur Kumar works on protecting primarily children and young girls from being forced into prostitution, mostly through information and education.

Friends is based in the Cambodian capital Phnom Penh, and does outreach work among street children with information and informal education as well as sports activities and playing. This is a way to encourage children getting off the streets.

© Mikkel Østergaard

Roskilde Festival’s humanitarian focus

Each year Roskilde Festival focus on a humanitarian issue and offers festival-goers the opportunity of getting knowledge of and discussing a humanitarian problem area – and donating refund directly to the relief work.

Three-year collaboration agreement

The ’Act against Slavery’ campaign marked the fifth year in a row where Roskilde Festival and DanChurchAid i jointly presented the humanitarian focus.

Roskilde Festival and DanChurchAid are both satisfied with the collaboration and have agreed on a three-year co-operative agreement about Roskilde’s humanitarian focus.

The preparations for the humanitarian focus in 2007 are in progres – a campaign which will focus on fair trade .