Serious Request yield almost half lower – Telegraaf.nl

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Radio Serious Request action this year has yielded much less than previous editions. DJs 3FM, for whom the Glass House this year was in Heerlen, gathered 7,562,985 euros for children in conflict areas. That is almost half less than last year, when it stood Glass House in Haarlem and a record total of 12,380,438 euros were donated. In 2013 the annual charity action brought more than 12.3 million euro

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Gijs de Vries, managing director of the Red Cross, which will be the money raised divide, is very happy with the money. ,, It’s not a competition, ” he says. ,, It’s serious money, we can do many beautiful things along for the children. Every euro counts. This is a wonderful amount. ”

Around 21:00 Thursday left the DJs Domien Verschuuren, Giel Beelen and Paul Rabbering the Glass House in Heerlen, where she spent six days without food and 24-hour surcharge music turned.

3FM began in 2004 with the Serious Request action. When it was over 900 000 euros have been raised for a mobile hospital in Darfur. Since then, the radio campaigned annually for a ‘silent emergency’. In 2016 builds 3FM his famous Glass House in the week before Christmas in Breda.

This year’s edition was marred by a few minor disturbances. As De Telegraaf reported that the face of the fundraising is a Dutch model. Normally singer Bennie Jolink had harsh criticism of the motives and reward the DJs

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