She met her Danish husband in Paris and moved to Denmark in the early 1950s. The contrast between life in post-war Denmark in the husband’s strict family where they could not speak the same language was big for a 20 year old. She quickly had three children and, together with her husband, she worked for MS and DanChurchAid in Africa. As an 86-year-old widow she still spends six months every year in New Zealand volunteering among New Settlers. The portrait shows an outgoing woman who sees disease and suffering in a greater perspective, and still retains her optimistic life energy and engagement.