The International DRH Movement is a movement of training schools worldwide involved in global issues, development work, and fighting shoulder to shoulder with the poorest people in the world to change their situation.
DRH is an abbreviation for “Den Rejsende Højskole” which means “The Travelling Folk High School” in Danish, as in Denmark the first DRH School started in 1970. In the first 10 years of the DRH, thousands of young people went travelling to all parts of the world to meet with people and to get the first hand understanding of the global reality which we were all part of. This was truly an eye-opener for many people in many ways. Facing the reality of fellow human beings, of whom many lived in unacceptable conditions, lead to the endeavor to attempt to minimize the gap between the rich and the poor.
Since 1970, more DRH schools have been established. Today there are 13 schools located in 8 different countries on 4 continents: Europe, USA, Africa and Asia.
Each DRH school is an autonomous school in its own right and each institute has a number of ongoing programs. Common to all of the different DRH programs is that people from all over the world are offered an opportunity, not only to learn about the atrocities in the poor parts of the world, but also to join together and DO something, to take action to fight against poverty.
Today the DRH Institutes are a center for remarkable multicultural diversity, training around 900 participants, from over 80 different countries, each year.
