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The group photo was from the board meeting earlier this year, I think. Not the dinner.
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Here are some more photos and a video of Mary's participation at the conference yesterday:
** fb gallery **
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She's looking great. - Frederik's back...
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And he has a constant smile on his face in Aarhus today....  
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The Mary Foundation's annual donation (50.000 USD) is awarded to a women's crisis centre in Kabul, Afghanistan, and its founder Mary Akrami it was announced today.
"Women's rights in Afghanistan are under pressure at many levels. Afghan women are struggling with devastating and strong social norms that make them very vulnerable. Mary Akrami has dedicated her life to helping women and their children and is a strong spokeswoman in the struggle to change the conditions for women in Afghanistan. It requires great courage and has at the same time made her a target for those who do not want change. With the Mary Foundation's special donation, we want to support her impressive and great work" is Mary quoted saying.
** kongehuset: Mary Fonden støtter kvindekrisecenter i Afghanistan **
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Why is the donation made in dollars?
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01-14-2019, 05:08 AM
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Why is the donation made in dollars?
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Thanks, Iceflower.
It's in Dollars (alternatively in Euro) because the money is for a project in Afghanistan. A round neat figure that is easier to relate to in Afghanistan than 325,733.90 DKK.
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02-08-2019, 04:51 AM
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Summary of article in Billed Bladet #6, 2019.
Written by Marianne Singer.
As chairman of the Mary Foundation Mary recently attended a meeting about the project, Council to Life, aimed at helping women who have been in an abusive relationship.
That took place at Ringsted Crisis Center, where a former residents, Jette Højholdt Mikkelsen and Lisbeth Olufsen, told their stories.
After which Mary said: "It gives us an understanding for how complex violence is. And you also help breaking down taboos."
Lisbeth Olufsen responded: "I will start by saying thank you to the Crown Princess. I'm very honored and overwhelmed over such a beautiful speech. There is simply so much empathy. I wouldn't have been standing here today if I hadn't been given the help I did. I have been living with psychological abuse for twenty years."
Jette Højholdt said: "I fought a long time but in the end I had to give up. I hadn't made it without help.
Thank you for the attention. It's so important. It's important that there are some strong persons who back us up."
Council for Life provides free economical, legal and social counseling.
- Often a woman stands at the crisis center with at best a suitcase. She may not necessarily have been beaten, but she has been kept under total control by her husband and also in total ignorance in many ways. As such she has no money of her own and she doesn't have a clue about the family finances. Sometimes debts have been set up in her name. So her personal financial situation can be and often is in total chaos!
So what do you do, if you have lived for many years in an abusive relationship and you now have to look after your finances on your own (that's a huge problem for immigrant women) or you discover you have a massive debt?
That can be so overwhelming that women have returned to their abusive husbands, back to the relative feeling of security she will find there.
And here the counseling come in.
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