Women of the Year 2006 - Aune Ainsalo Greggas

Aune Ainsalo Greggas was born just after the close of the Second World War into an Adventist family in the village of Suonenjoki in central Finland. Life after the war was difficult and opportunities scarce. While Greggas spent summers selling Adventist books to pay for her secondary education at an Adventist academy, she met her mentor and friend, Margit Süring (WOYA, 2002).

After academy Greggas attended the University of Helsinki, where she received her first master's degree and simultaneously became an editor of the church's health magazine Terveys. Over five years, circulation more than doubled. At the same time Aune worked on an Adventist temperance magazine, and saw new tobacco-restriction laws passed in Finland. This was the beginning of her life-long interest in helping young people abstain from tobacco—an area in which she has had enormous impact.

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