Authors’ForewordYou cannot say TV-Glad without saying Henrik Marentius and Mikkel Holmbäck. In 1999 the twoyouthful ambitious firebrands courageously threw themselves into creating what is believed tobe the world’s very first TV station for and with people with mental disabilities.20 years later, TV-Glad is part of the registered socio-economic company Glad Foundation alongwith the branches Design, Food, Facility, Business, Vocational School, Zoo Theatre and a number ofprojects. Henrik Marentius is Senior Consultant and Mikkel Holmbäck CEO for the app. 300 employees, out of which some 150 are people employed on special terms due to cognitive challenges. In2003, the Glad-TV Association restructured and became the self-owned TV-Glad Foundation. Due toincreased commercial earnings, the TV-Glad Foundation registered as an economically operatingfoundation, now simply called Glad Foundation in order to accommodate the many fields of business.We have interviewed 30 of Glad Foundation’s present and former employees. Ordinarily employed staff, flex-workers and employees with public wage subsidies; from all the various businessesand the branches in Aabenraa, Esbjerg, Vejen, Ringsted and Copenhagen. We have put identicalquestions to everyone but the two founders. The answers are incredibly different and bear witnessto Glad Foundation’s complexity and diversity. However, two statements were echoed by everyone:“When we explain Glad Foundation to people, we start with TV-Glad” and “at Glad we hug!” This istrue!In the following, we have condensed 20 years into one Maggi Cube. It is neither half the truthor one quarter, but a variety of impressions over two decades. And just so that you know: We, theauthors, are both employed in our wonderful, colourful enterprise; and no one has interfered inour writing it.Happy Reading!Lotte Horup and Hanne Jensen5
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