elite that were sent to live in a boarding house in Copenhagen between 1880 and 1896. It was called the Grønlanderhjemmet or 'the Greenlander home'. The Grønlanderhjemmet was used as a base where the Greenlanders would stay while they received their training in various bureaucratic trades. They would then return to Greenland and begin work for the local, Danish-controlled government. According to Rud Søren, a Danish historian, the Grønlanderhjemmet provided a monitored environment in which the Greenlanders could increase their understanding of a ‘modern’, ‘civilised’ society in order to return with these lessons and disseminate them in their home country. The boarding house was monitored to ensure that the Greenlanders weren't exposed to too much luxury, which, it was feared by the Danish administration, could eventuate in their demanding better conditions back in Greenland. The idea, as stated in the original Danish publication outlining the proposal for the boarding house, was to help these Greenlandic people become more 'civilised' that they would then transport and disseminate on their return to Greenland. 1951 Social experiment In 1951, 21 families were misled into agreeing to send their children to Denmark for six months for an education, they were told, that would improve their future. 22 Greenlandic children were taken to Denmark where they spent one year with foster families in Denmark. Unbeknownst to the parents in Greenland, on return the children would live in orphanages, not with their families and were only allowed infrequent visits. Six of the children were adopted by their Danish host families. The children suffered 'severe issues of identity and belonging as consequences of 'the experiment' and loss of their culture.' The programme was initiated by the Danish government as part of the de-colonisation process required by the UN following the Second World War. 'Nyordningen' or 'The New Incentive' was thus founded in order to 'upgrade' Greenland's education, health and social services. The children would serve as a model for Greenlandic relations in Greenland going forward. This was in order to 'improve... the future of Greenland' by creating a prototype of the 'new type of Greenlander', referred to then as 'little Danes'. It was not until 2020 that the children that were forced to be part of the experiment received an apology from Danish Prime Minister Mette Frederiksen."We cannot change what happened. But we can take responsibility and apologise to those we should have cared for but failed