2,4 million Danish Kroner to Bangladesh

On Thursday June 11th a charity dinner was held at restaurant Noma following an American example where 85 guests raised 600.000 DKK for climate projects in Bangladesh. The project has been pre-approved by EU who will 4-doubble the collected amount. As a result of this 2,4 million DKK is on it’s way to make a difference for some of the World’s poorest people.

Rainmaking was the principal organizer of the event, which was held in cooperation with Danish National Church’s Relief Aid, Restaurant noma, Meyers Kitchen and Rainmaking. All expenses were sponsored by the organizers so that all the money raised could go directly and in full to the charity project.

The artist Kristian von Hornsleth had donated a painting for the charity dinner and it went to the evening’s biggest contributor.
Michael Carøe and band entertained with crooner hits.
The project is about helping 70.000 people in 600 villages building dams, elevate buildings, build community houses in safe places, train a ‘civil defence unit’, installing water pumps etc.

The budget for the total project is estimated to be around 10 million DKK and thus, the contribution from the charity dinner constitutes almost 25 % of the total budget. Thereby, we have been able to help 17.000 people from 150 villages. It makes the effort worth the trouble and we look forward to repeat this success in a year’s time as well as taking new CSR initiatives.

At Rainmaking we have, as part of our 10-year ambition, a goal that in 2016 (10 years after Rainmaking was founded) we will spend 10% of our profit and 10% of our time on social work and charity.