I was invited Thursday night to the Photographic Museum for
a charity evening in aid of Hand in Hand. I think this is a fantastic organization
that gives poor people a chance in life by helping them to help themselves, training
mostly women for entrepeneurship.
Earlier this year we sponsored Hand in Hand at our gala dinner to launch our new Select Collection. Our invited guests could bid on exciting
holidays, inspired by an address by Hand in Hand's founder Percy Barnevik.
This Thursday at the Photographic Museum lots of money was raised - 5.4 million SEK. Twenty villages were “sold”. Every village cost 270000 SEK Fantastic!
Here are some pictures from this successful evening:
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| Welcome to Fotografiska |
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| Charlotte Bohman and Peter Settman at the Hand in Hand gala |
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| Attending Hand in Hand with my old friend Lena Skogström |
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| Nice talk with Percy Barnevik who I know from our own gala evening we had in March.... |
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| Sunit Mehrotra chairman Hand in Hand. |
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| Old friends |
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| Evening with great atmosphere |
Entertainment
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| Speech by Percy Barnevik ... |
Inspiring us with the importance of charity that does not make people dependent but encourages entrepeneurship.
In India there are 300 million people who live on less than
1.25 USD per day. To help them to help themselves, Hand in Hand has a project in which 1.7
million jobs have helped over 8 million people to have a better life. The project
involves education and training for potential breadwinners, and is complemented by work
in schools, health programmes, building projects and more.
Fantastic pictures were on display in the photographic Museum taken by Magnus Wennman
on his journey to the villages
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| Building projects |
This is a charming photograph of a child who represents
hope where once there was nothing…
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| And another of the very many children deserving help |
