DANIDA

DANIDA

Danish International Development Agency ("DANIDA"), is a Danish organisation inside the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Denmark, set up to provide humanitarian help and assistance in developing countries.

Its name was originally DANAID. In Greek mythology, the Danaids were daughters of Danaus who killed their husbands and were condemned to fill a bathtub with water to wash away their sins. Because the buckets they were given to do this were actually sieves, they worked for all eternity in Tartarus without any progress. Thus the aid agency's name was changed from DANAID to DANIDA at the last minute when this unfortunate connotation was discovered.


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