Other donations

ERSTA VÄNDPUNKTEN

SEK 300,000 / 1 YEAR Children growing up with relatives who have various kinds of addictions are used to everything centring on the addict’s feelings and problems. The shadow cast by the addiction means these young people have a greater risk of themselves suffering psychological difficulties or future mental health problems or of becoming addicts themselves.

At Ersta Vändpunkten the focus is on these relatives. Through efforts at many levels, Vändpunkten – meaning ‘turning point’ – works to enable these young people to have a functioning life as adults, with stable close relationships. In various activities the organisation makes contact with children at preschool age, as teenagers and as young adults.

CLOWNMEDICIN

SEK 1.08 M / 1 YEAR Being ill and spending long periods in hospital is not something we want to associate with childhood. Nonetheless, children sometimes become seriously ill or have long-term illnesses. The situations they find themselves in are often a cause of great stress to the children and their families, but being ill can also be monotonous and boring. A young life is put on hold, and possibly no-one really knows how long for. At such times entertainment or distraction can be particularly welcome, or perhaps the opportunity to experience something really special.

Clownmedicin provides professional clowns who visit sick children and their families in hospital. The aim is to spread joy and make life easier for the children, their siblings and parents and the staff, so that their time in hospital is not as hard.

MIN STORA DAG

SEK 2 M / 2 YEARS The organisation Min Stora Dag (My Special Day) also works to give pleasure to children with serious illnesses and diagnoses. It’s concept is all about making the children’s dreams come true. On their special day the child gets to experience something they have dreamed of doing or gets to meet someone they admire, or to have fun with others who know what it’s like to be in their situation.

SAVE THE CHILDREN & THE RED CROSS

SEK 150 M In war and conflict children suffer particularly badly, and when the situation is acute it is important from the child’s perspective to help both children and adults. Save the Children and the Red Cross provide humanitarian support for people escaping the war in Ukraine and the Erling-Persson Foundation is among those supporting them.

Save the Children works in Ukraine and neighbouring countries to provide psychosocial support, to distribute clothing and personal hygiene items, to give cash to families for basic necessities such as food, rent and medicines and in other ways.

In its work to help people affected by the conflict the Red Cross is carrying out medical efforts in Ukraine but also in neighbouring countries. There will also be initiatives to help refugees in Sweden.

“We feel it is a matter of great urgency to contribute via Save the Children and the Red Cross to the relief efforts being made to meet the needs arising from the war in Ukraine,” says Stefan Persson, chair of the Erling-Persson Foundation.

In March 2022 the Erling-Persson Foundation made an initial donation of SEK 150 million for humanitarian aid in relation to the war in Ukraine. Of this SEK 150 million, SEK 75 million went to Save the Children and SEK 75 million to the Red Cross.