Refund collection
Roskilde Festival has made a new refund collaboration with Danish Refugee Council, Danish Red Cross Youth and World Wide Fund for Nature and four humanitarian organisations thereby collected refund money in 2010. DanChurchAid is helped for the eighth year in a row.
Refund collectors are known on their turquoise vests and move around on both the festival site and the camping area. They also hand out turquoise bags to the camps, so they can collect the refundable containers and dispose of the bags once they are full.
The refund collection is divided into two phases. DanChurchAid and Danish Refugee Council are present during the festival, while Danish Red Cross Youth and WWF collect when the festival is over. All four organisations collected for climate and environmental work in 2010, and below you can read about what the money will be donated to.
Danish Refugee Council has just received a work permit in Myanmar, one of the world's poorest countries. They will contribute to the reconstruction of Myanmar in the areas where the cyclone has ravaged, e.g. by offering help to build houses, develop wells, install latrines, construct schools and distribute ceramic water filtration pots that can purify polluted water.
DanChurchAid’s climate work focuses on three areas: prevention, new technology and political work. When disaster strikes, they help with the adaptation to the changing climatic conditions and try to improve the situation for the poorest on longer terms. If we, for instance, collect 100 mugs at the festival it can provide food for a family in Bangladesh for a month.
The collected funds from Danish Red Cross Youth will go to climate-related activities in connection with the programme "Life learning skills" in Uganda and Zimbabwe. The money will also go to the organisation’s café, Café Zusammen, that organises events with focus on the consequences of the climate changes.
WWF collects refund for their overall objective to ensure nature and the environment worldwide. The goal is to preserve nature and the environment while the world’s poorest get a better living standard. In other words, sustainable development in the Third World.
The collected refund money from recent years has, for instance, supported dialogue projects and mobile hospitals in Israel/Palestine, food safety in Malawi, anti-trafficking in Cambodia and mine clearance in Lebanon and DR Congo.
