A/HRC/22/19 organizations, associations of victims and family members of victims, private and public hospitals, legal clinics, public interest law firms and individual lawyers. The beneficiaries must be direct victims of torture and/or direct family members. Priority is given to projects providing direct assistance to victims of torture, which may consist in medical or psychological assistance, help with social or financial reintegration through vocational training for victims, and various forms of legal assistance for victims or members of their families, including assistance in seeking redress or applying for asylum. Depending on the resources available, the Fund may finance projects to organize training programmes, seminars or conferences to allow health-care professionals or other service providers to exchange best practices. However, grant requests for projects involving investigation, research, studies, publications or similar activities are not admissible. II. Thirty-fifth session of the Board of Trustees 7. Owing to the fact that the new Board of Trustees, was appointed on 26 October 2011, the thirty-fifth session of the Board, originally planned from 17 to 21 October 2011, had to be postponed to early in 2012, and was thus held from 27 January to 3 February 2012. At the session, Ms. Doretti was appointed by acclamation as Chairperson for a twoyear term. The Board also examined applications for funding and made recommendations on grants to be allotted to beneficiary organizations for the period from January to December 2012. A. Financial situation of the Fund 8. The table below shows the contributions received between 1 January and 31 December 2011. These contributions were allocated to grants recommended by the Board at its thirty-fifth session. Contributions and pledges received from 1 January to 31 December 2011 Donor Amount (United States dollars) Date of receipt 20 938 28 October 2011 States Andorra Argentina 3 405 31 January 2011 Canada 61 170 24 March 2011 Chile 10 000 4 October 2011 9 433 26 September 2011 Denmark 383 656 22 November 2011 Germany 407 407 11 May 2011 Greece 39 422 3 January 2011 Ireland 119 718 20 April 2011 Kuwait 10 000 7 April 2011 Liechtenstein 27 115 20 April 2011 3 000 23 March 2011 183 688 27 June 2011 Qatar 10 000 18 February 2011 Republic of Korea 95 000 25 April 2011 Czech Republic Morocco Norway 3