Carl Christensen started
Råd og dåd in 1997.

How it all started

In the early eighties experimented someone on Limfjord School Løgstør - a boarding school for mentally retarded (moronic) - In "Group 3" to make the frames to create a coherent life for retarded people. They reach far, but were also running into barriers in terms of working hours, physical environment, bureaucracy, etc.. But you live to see that both mentally retarded and staff flourish when released from the institution life's narrow confines. When students should continue, there were limited options and only central institutions and guesthouses for thme. It was before living community model (§ 68) was a possibility. At the same time some people in a small town Torslev (In Brovst) with an old empty "Merchant House" was looking to find local employment opportunities. Against this background led local involvement and the desire and willingness to develop better opportunities for mentally handicapped in the founding of "Social Education Collective, ´Købmandsgården´", a private institution physically located in "The Old Merchant House "in Torslev. The goal was in addition to "creating the framework for a coherent life and develope skills (residential training etc..), So that the mentally retarded could get a more independent living on their own terms.

Employees were hired - equal pay, flat structure, without contractual scientific frontiers and working time rules - and ther was made detailed descriptions of human nature and objectives. After a couple years were "stiftelsen" expanded with another fraternity. The experience was, after few local protests that the Købmandsgårdens new residents were well received in local area, but rather "passive": "yes, they also should be allowed to be here, "as it was expressed. And it also proved that the retarded, away from the rigid institutionsliv could make many more tasks than expected. This led to that the goal of 1987 was expanded and formulated on a more trial basis for the further work. An experimental project P. H. I. L., which was supported of SUM funds were put on rails. It should be clarified, as it largely came to influence Købmandsgården and the conceptual framework for subsequent projects including Råd og dåd.