Maria Jacobsen was born in Denmark in the town of Siim near Ry on 6 November 1882 and as a child , she lived in Horsens with her father Jens Jacobsen and mother Ane Kristine Pedersen . At an early age , Jacobsen had learned about the massacres of Armenians during the Hamidian massacres from the Danish media . Christian organizations throughout the world started a campaign to express their solidarity with the Armenians and to serve to help them . When Mrs. Jessie Penn-Lewis , a feminist activist , came to Denmark from England in 1898 , she helped form the Women 's Missionary Workers ( K.M.A. ; Danish : Kvindelige Missions Arbejdere ) in 1900 . Jacobsen soon participated in the support and relief efforts of orphans in the eastern provinces of the Ottoman Empire
Hamidian massacres
Hamidian massacres
Maria Jacobsen