The Egmont Foundation’s first volunteer event for employees was fully booked by cheery Egmont employees that wanted to lend a hand.

This Monday, almost 100 employees donated one hour of their time to help ready and wrap the many presents the Egmont Foundation sends out as part of their Christmas care packages. Volunteers from more than 20 different companies turned up to lend a hand.

All of the attending employees were united by a common purpose of getting directly involved with the effort to better the conditions for socially disadvantaged families in December.

Some helped wrap the books with the personal Christmas care packages that are given to single providers and their children. The families have to be nominated by shelter employees all over the country to receive the Christmas care packages, which consists of a gift voucher and a book present – a little help to raise the Christmas spirit, which otherwise can be difficult to find when you only have a monthly disposable income of 520 EUR.

Others made Christmas cards and decorated the gift boxes to carry all the children’s book, films, games, CD’s, teddy bears, comic books and magazines that the many Egmont companies had donated. The gift boxes will be transported directly to the shelters for the benefit of the residents who have to spend Christmas away from home. Finally, a group of drivers wearing red Santa’s hats helped drive the gift boxes to the shelters in Copenhagen