On June 28, our board member Hein Rijkenberg joined Give a Damn Foundation members Michiel Thunnissen and Lisa van Ginneken at Budapest Pride, standing with over 200,000 others in solidarity with the LGBTIQ+ community in Hungary.
We were honoured to be part of this powerful movement — and proud that, as Give a Damn, we could support the Pride organisation in Hungary with a donation in light of recent troubling developments there.
A heartfelt thank you to Dutch ambassador Elizabeth Bonis for the warm welcome in Budapest, and to Amsterdam mayor Femke Halsema for walking alongside us.
Also a big thank you to D66 Pride for taking care of our delegation, and to Amnesty International Hungary for connecting us with Viktória Radványi, president of Budapest Pride – your work is deeply inspiring.
But most of all: proud of everyone who showed up and showed the world – we are here, and we are proud.
