Sejerø lacks families with children – campaign aims to attract them
Sejerø is missing families with children, and the population is declining. That is why a new campaign video is intended to draw attention to the island.
"It's lovely on Sejerø," it says in a new video campaign aimed at getting more families with children to move to the island. (Photo: © Stig Nørhald, Biofoto/Ritzau Scanpix) 22 minutes ago
"We are an island in the blue for big and small."
That is the message in a new video about how wonderful it is to live on Sejerø, which lies in the Sejerø Bay with a view of the northwest Zealand coast.
But there is one thing that is not at all good on the small island with just under 300 residents. There is a shortage of families with children, and they need to be attracted, says Bibi Dannemann, a member of the Sejerø Residents' Association and coordinator of the campaign.
"We have a small school that we want to keep alive. If there aren't enough children in the school, then there is no basis for having teacher and educator jobs on the island," she says.
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Families moving away
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And there is truth to the lack of families with children. Not long ago, a family with four children moved away from there.
> "We have a small school that we want to keep alive. If there aren't enough children in the school, then there is no basis for having teacher and educator jobs on the island."
> Bibi Dannemann, member of the Sejerø Residents' Association
Betina Geissler, who is a teacher and educator at the school on Sejerø, can feel that there are not many in the school, and her children also have a limited number of friends when the school day is over.
"It doesn't have to be children the same age as my children, but just that there is more life, because it's a bit quiet in the schoolyard and in the kindergarten," she says.
According to figures from Statistics Denmark, the number of residents on the island has shrunk from about 350 to just under 300 over five years.
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