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Roskilde Festival and Danish charity organization DanChurchAid can report a record-breaking result from this year's humanitarian refund collection.

During eight festival days, cans, bottles and cups worth about € 150,000 were collected. This result corresponds to each festival-goer donating 15 cans to the festival's humanitarian focus.

The impressive result has been achieved thanks to great effort by approx. 700 refund collecting volunteers as well as a wide support from the audience at this year's Roskilde Festival.

Mine clearance makes a safer future

Each year Roskilde Festival chooses a humanitarian focus, thereby giving the festival-goers a humanitarian issue to learn about and to take a stand about – and they can donate their refund directly to relief work.

In 2008 the refund collection supports DanChurchAid's humanitarian mine clearance in DR Congo. With this help, previous devastated areas are made safe and can be used for cultivation and habitation and thereby create progress for the country and the Congolese population.

Minerals and mobile phones

DR Congo is a country rich on natural resources, for instance minerals which are used in the production of electronic products such as mobile phones. However, this natural wealth has not caused the growth in DR Congo as one would expect.

Therefore, with the campaign ’Fair Phone – Fair Future’, Roskilde Festival, DanChurchAid and over 5000 festival-goers have demanded from the mobile producers that they start taking responsibility for their production chain – all the way from extraction of minerals to the final product – and thereby contribute to local growth in DR Congo.