CONTENTS Editorial. side 3 Social work Starthelp. Vulnerable children and young people. Vulnerable families. Vulnerable elderly people. side 4 side 6 side 7 side 8 Prevention and First Aid Samaritans. Denmark Saves Lives. First aid training. Saving Life. side 10 side 12 side 13 side 14 International work Disaster & Emergency Aid. side 16 Development Aid. side 18 Relief work voluenteers. side 19 Danmarks Indsamling. side 20 Danish peoples’s aid and the global goals side 22 FINANCIAL STATEMENTS Conslusion with reservations. Management’s financial review. Balance sheet. side 23 side 24 side 26 PUBLISHED BY Danish People´s Aid Brovejen 4 4800 Nykøbing Falster t: +45 70 220 230 e: post@folkehjaelp.dk www.folkehjaelp.dk 2 ANNUAL REPORT 2019 EDITORIAL Klaus Nørlem LAYOUT Lene Nielsen, Dansk Folkehjælp PHOTOS Dansk Folkehjælp ACCOUNTANT BDO Danmark Havneholmen 29 1561 København V

HELP US TO HELP OTHERS In 2019, Christmas Aid, organised by Danish People’s Aid in cooperation with the Danish daily newspaper Ekstra Bladet, set new records. The greatest and probably most pleasant surprise was the fact that the number of applicants for our Christmas Aid finally stagnated. For the first time since the establishment of Christmas Aid, we did not witness the usual rise in the number of applicants. We sincerely hope this trend will continue in the years to come. We are also pleased to announce that Danish People’s Aid/Ekstra Bladet Christmas Aid fundraising campaign reached a record high, enabling us to help even more families and children to enjoy a happier Christmas. Christmas Aid is the activity that not only attracts the greatest number of volunteer local branches and helpers, but also gives our organisation the most widespread integration with our cooperating partners, contributors and the business community SeniorNET, an activity for single, lonely elderly people, expanded rapidly in 2019. Over the next four years, in cooperation with ‘Østifterne’, Danish People’s Aid will set up SeniorNET in 10 new municipalities each year. Therefore, we expect SeniorNET to be anchored in 50 Danish municipalities by the end of the project period. Our Holiday Aid also set new records in terms of the amount of applicants we were able to help. With assistance from Danish People’s Aid, almost 4,000 people were given the opportunity to go to a holiday camp in Denmark. Holiday Aid is one of the organisation’s activities that involves a huge number of volunteers, and in recent years, on the basis of overall plans, we have extended our cooperation with the social housing districts. Financial counselling for vulnerable families is experiencing healthy growth. Based on the evaluation of the first initiatives, Danish People’s Aid is currently rolling out its counselling service in more municipalities. The project has been an overall success and, as a result of the positive experience, we will continue to expand the project. Denmark Saves Lives got off to a great start, recruiting 6,500 dedicated volunteers who responded to incidences of cardiac arrest. A project evaluation showed a successful response time from the sound of the alarm to the arrival of a volunteer at the scene. It also revealed that the project neared its target of early action and coverage of all cardiac arrests in Region Southern Denmark and Region Zealand. However towards the end of 2019, the regions involved chose to join the ‘Hjerteløber’ scheme. As a result, the Denmark Saves Lives project sent their last volunteers to assist with cardiac arrests at the end of April 2020. Danish People’s Aid is proud of having been part of a team that brought the life-saving initiative to Denmark. Regardless of the scheme deployed, Denmark has become a safer place to live in, when it comes to cardiac arrest. Funded by the EU, the Saving Life first-aid project is the largest first-aid project ever launched by Danish People’s Aid. In the first six months of 2020, in collaboration with our German sister organisation ASB, 6,000 people from communities in the southern regions of Denmark and the northern regions of Germany received first aid training. Apart from the large numbers of people taking our first aid course, our aim is to make the large number of defibrillators in Denmark available 24/7. The project was extended in 2020, and we are now focusing on the training of children and employees in childcare centres Danish People’s Aid set the goal of the CISU programme agreement some years ago. We are hoping that, on the basis of close cooperation with our local partners, this new programme agreement will take a more strategic perspective in terms of implementing our democracy and water programmes in Eastern Africa and the Horn of Africa. In the lead-up to 2018, through CISU, DANIDA launched a new emergency aid fund called the Danish Emergency Relief Fund (DERF). In 2019, Danish People’s Aid received support for our humanitarian work in Somalia, Uganda and Afghanistan. Unfortunately, this emergency aid fund is rather limited, directly impacting the number of areas that where we could implement the emergency aid initiatives and particularly the number of people we could help. We recommend the framework of the fund to be increased in order to help people suffering from humanitarian disasters Thank you! We would like to thank all our members and volunteers, collective members, business partners, ministries, funds and private contributors for their great help and support for Danish People’s Aid. ANNUAL REPORT 2019 3

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