Yesterday was "TV-aksjon"-day.
TV aksjon is a Norwegian day, that happens every year, where Norsk folkehjelp (Norwegian organization) collect money to a different project. This year the money went to clear landmines.
It's the only day a year, where tons of volunteers walk around from house to house and collect money (in Denmark this happens more than once a year, since different organisations does it.)
All the money are collected and at night, there is a big TV-show, where they collect even more money and have all kinds of entertainment and so on.
In total, Norway collected 208 725 301 NOK (about 37.7 million US dollars). That is about 42,5 NOK per inhabitant.
Point A on the map is school, B is Førde.
Førde has around 12 000 inhabitants! :)
Nurul (Indonesia) and I got partnered up with a Norwegian boy and his grandfather and went around our assigned area.
I was really surprised by how much Norwegians donate. After the three first houses, I had already collected 300 NOK and a couple of others donated 300 or 500 NOK.
At night, we went to the church in Dale, to a service there (everything in this day was voluntarily). It was a nice experience to see how big a difference there actually is from Norway to Denmark - talking about church.
Afterwards, DROP (Do Respect Other People - an EAC at school) had baked cakes and there were different music-performances from students. It was a nice way to meet some of the community and get to church again.
Overall we had a very fun day, and I'm definitely gonna help our again next year!
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