Mission10forty

Mission10forty (M.) is an international NGO registered in Denmark and as a charity in Ukraine. M. has humanitarian programmes in Ukraine, Armenia, Karabakh, Afghanistan and North Korea operating in hard-to reach areas, providing humanitarian assistance to especially vulnerable population groups. The purpose of M. is to engage and enable the new generation to provide hope, relief, recovery and reconciliation to their peers in the countries of the 10/40 Window of Africa, the Middle East and Asia, andEastern Europe. M. is/has been funded by a range of Danish and international donors, including public donors, private foundations and corporates. M. has a dedicated humanitarian staff and professional volunteers, working out of the Denmark base, engaged in operations in Armenia, Ukraine, and Afghanistan. Founder Dr Kim Hartzner is a medical doctor who originally establishing the international NGO Mission East in 1991, and in 2021 M. In 2021, M, with funding from the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Faroe Islands, implemented a project for DKK500,000 providing winterization support to 250 refugees in the Vardenis area of Armenia, with WV Armenia as the local implementing partner. M. engaged in Ukraine the day after the outbreak of the war. Since then, the organization has provided food assistance to 130,000 vulnerable people, working through local partners. Food distributions were funded by a range of private donors, including corporates, and the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Faroe Islands. From July 2022 large scale water projects were started, with funding from private donors and IOM (International Organization of Migration), with back funding from Danida (Danish Ministry of Foreign Affairs), totalling 12 water systems installed in schools and kindergartens in Mykolaiv, servicing vulnerable population groups. On this project, Flygtningeborn.dk provided communications work in both Ukraine and Denmark, highlighting the plight of displaced people in Ukraine.