Charity and Honors
In addition to her work Nina Ruge is involved in a number of charities like UNICEF (as Goodwill Ambassador), Felix Burda Stiftung - Darmkrebs Prävention and Rosenthal - Porzellan "Charity - Teller". She is also the patron of the "Netzwerk von und für Frauen und Mädchen mit Behinderungen in Bayern".
In 2005 Nina Ruge was honored on the island Mainau by naming a bright orange-red rose after her.
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“Reputation is not of enough value to sacrifice character for it.”
—“Miss Clark,” U.S. charity worker. As quoted in Petticoat Surgeon, ch. 9, by Bertha Van Hoosen (1947)
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Even to the very quality of my lord.
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