Sophia Jansson of her aunt, Jansson went to the UK to help Sort Of Books promote the re-release of a Moomin picture book. In June 2004, Jansson was invited by the Consulate General of Finland to the 31st "Dreams & Visions" Annual Children's Literature Conference in California. The Consulate sponsored her trip. Here, Jansson represented Finnish children's literature during an engaging lecture and presentation. In August 2004, Jansson launched the silver Tove Jansson and Children's Culture collector's coin, receiving the first pressing from Raimo Makkonen, CEO of the Mint of Finland. She served as a judge in the selection of the coin's
The Finnish dormitory in Taichung is not possible to say how long the instruction in Swedish lasted. Other subjects taught at the dormitory included geography, Finnish nature and Finnish civics. The textbooks included e.g. books by Lappalainen called "Perusmaantieto" (‘The Basics of Geography’) and Lappalainen et al., "Kansalaistaito ja ympäristöoppi 3–4". (‘Civics and environmental awareness 3–4’). In 1973 the Finnish Missions Council, to which The Finnish Missionary Society also belongs, wrote an initiative to the Finnish Ministry of Education, asking that the Government of Finland give financial support to the Finnish children whose parents were abroad in missionary work and who were of the age