Sweden-Lithuania

24-25 November 2007 Bengt Nilsson together with Jone Šeštakauskaite organised the Friendship Bridge Sweden-Lithuania campaign - a busload of gifts for the little sick children arrived in Lithuania. For two days in Kaunas and Vilnius, the Rugutė team and the children's hospitals were distributing gifts to the children, which were collected, carefully packed and delivered by the children from Sweden. After this visit to Lithuania, and after seeing what our sick children needed most, our Swedish friends expressed their sincere desire to continue their friendship and to contribute to Rugutė's activities through various actions.

 

Bengt Nilsson organises the "Festival of Joy" every four years on his farm in southern Sweden. The idea for this celebration came about when Bengt Nilsson invited the children and their families from the same ward to his homestead in 1993 to cheer up his seriously ill daughter Anna. Later on, the party became a tradition, inviting children and their families, medical staff, and supporters from children's oncology wards in hospitals in southern Sweden and elsewhere in the country. During the celebration, children play, sing, draw, and have a treat.