DanChurchAid
Parish Collection
Parish Collection
DanChurchAid’s annual door-to-door collection is called 'The Parish Collection'. The parish collection takes place the first Sunday of March. The focus of the collection changes every year, but the goal is always the same: to help people in need.
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More people helped the poor
The result of DanChurchAid's Parish Collection 2009 was 16 million Danish kroner (2,715 million dollars), which is one million more than last years result.
20.000 people took to the streets with great enthusiasm, collection box in hand, 4000 of which were young people and children.
"Financial crisis or not, todays collection shows that if the financial crisis has any influence at all it might be that it gives the Danes a feeling of solidarity with the people who are suffering the most," says the General Secretary of DanChurchAid Henrik Stubkjær.
The money from this year's Parish Collection will be used in the fight against hunger, which more than one billion people in the world's poorest countries suffer from.
Contact for more information:
General Secretary Henrik Stubkjær, +45 2970 0600
Head of Parish Collection Ulrik Bjørn, +45 2961 9907
Communication Director Mads Klæstrup Kristensen, +45 2025 6789
Hunger Blog
American exchange student Jeannie Morgan and two Danish students live on two small bowls of corn flour porridge, called Nsima, for a whole week in order to highlight this year’s Parish Collection focus on hunger.
Follow Jeannie's experiences on her Hunger Blog
2009: Fight hunger
The money from the 2009 collection will be used in the fight against hunger in developing countries.
UN estimates that at the end of 2008 one billion people were suffering from hunger. One of the reasons is the rise in prices on corn, wheat and rice during the food crisis and the financial crisis.
2008: Fight HIV and AIDS
The collection focus for 2008 was AIDS and the money collected went to HIV/AIDS projects in Africa, Asia, and Russia. 20.000 voluntary collectors all over Denmark spent a couple of hours of their Sunday afternoon and ensured that DanChurchAid’s annual door-to-door Parish Collection reached a fantastic result of more than DKK 15 million (EURO 2,1 million).
