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Måns Zelmerlöw has spent the time after the tragic abortion organizing a gala for children in need.
On Monday, “Walk with us” will air live on Aftonbladet.
– It is clear that it has facilitated work and the feeling that you are doing something meaningful with your time, he says.
A school for 400 students, a boarding school for 104 girls who are orphans or at risk of violence and abuse at home, a hospital and a future polytechnic school.
Everything is managed in Ngong, on the outskirts of Nairobi, in Kenya, and you pay for it Måns Zelmerlöws, 34, and Jonas Björkmans, 48, foundation foundation ZB.
But covid-19 has prevented the duo from holding their annual charity dinner to raise the five million crowns needed annually to keep the charity projects going.
Danny and Linda Pira participate
Instead, Zelmerlöw comes, along with artists like Danny Saucedo, Sabina ddumba and Linda Pira to celebrate the fundraising gala on Monday “Walk with us – an evening with Zelmerlöw and Björkman for the future of young people”.
Photo: KARIN TÖRNBLOM
Måns Zelmerlöw and Jonas Björkman.
The gala is broadcast live on Aftonbladet.
– We normally have a gala on the Hamburg Stock Exchange that is not broadcast anywhere. There we get most of our donations from large private donors, but now we are thinking about how we would get money for our students in another way, says Måns Zelmerlöw.
– So now, instead, we want to try to communicate widely with the fantastic work that is being done there. The response from the artists has been phenomenal, it was incredibly easy to find artists. And having Aftonbladet involved and going live makes us incredibly happy.
“Difficult weeks”
Måns has been working on the televised gala for just over a month, which takes place without an audience. For him, it has been good to deepen his preparations after his personal tragedy in early August. Wife CiaraThe 33-year-old tragically suffered a miscarriage.
– It is clear that it has made work easier and the feeling that you are doing something meaningful with your time. It is good in all situations like this.
How are you?
– I’m fine, it is clear that they have been difficult weeks, but now we are fine.
Photo: Karin Törnblom / TT
Måns and Ciara Zelmerlöw.
Along with his wife and children, Albert, 2 and the bonus area Archie, 6, the summer has been spent in Båstad, but when Aftonbladet contacts Måns by phone, he tells them that they are in Germany, on their way home to London.
– Schools are starting, so we have to go back. We have had the dogs with us and that is why we drive. None of us really want to move home. It is masked here in Germany and also in England, so when you come from a fairly open Sweden, you will feel quite strange.
He wants to open more schools
Måns Zelmerlöw, who travels weekly between Sweden and the United Kingdom due to work, will avoid at least the mandatory two-week quarantine that the British authorities have introduced, so he will be back on Swedish soil on Monday to complete the gala.
– I hope to meet all fellow artists, but above all to communicate with information about what our foundation does and what we have done in the last eight years. We started by building two classrooms and a dining room and then it has grown. Now there are 400 students whose parents cannot pay for the municipal school. We have a boarding school for 104 vulnerable girls, we have built a hospital and we are building a polytechnic, she says.
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Måns Zelmerlöw.
The aim of the foundation is to be able to follow children from the start of school until they enter working life. They also have plans to open more schools, including in Ethiopia. But first they need to secure this year’s budget. Five million crowns are required.
“Different”
– It will be different for us this year. We are used to large private donors, but now we expect more monthly donors and that someone wants to contribute something via swish. This is the first time we have addressed a wider audience. But we have not set any monetary objective for the gala because it is the first time that we do this, the most important thing is to arrive with what we do and that we can make a difference.
Måns knows what typically makes the most money from past fundraisers.
– Normally we auction my concerts and it can give a lot of money, he laughs.
“Walk with us: An evening with Zelmerlöw and Björkman for the future of young people” is broadcast on Aftonbladet on Monday 7 September at 7:00 pm. Sabina Ddumba, Linda Pira, Måns Zelmerlöw, Danny Saucedo, Dotter and Oscar Zia participate in the gala.
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