Queen Sofia's Co-Operation Trip to Senegal and Cape Verde: April 2-5, 2006

[fanletizia]

Queen Sofia will travel to Senegal and Cape Verde in a cooperation trip, from 2nd to 5th of April.

Please post the news and pictures of this visit in this thread

 

[fanletizia]

Trip of Cooperation from Her Majesty the Queen to Senegal and Green Cabo, from the 2 to the 5 of April of 2006

Her Majesty the Queen will arrive at Senegal during the morning of Sunday, 2 of April. After being received, she will move to the Presidential Palace to meet and to share a lunch with the President of Senegal, Abdoulaye Wade and its wife. His term, she will visit the Center of Agricultural Production located to the outskirts of CAP Skirring. The activities of this first day will conclude with a reception in the Hotel Hibiscus of Them Palmarais the Spaniards who participate in cooperation projects in Casamance.
Monday, 3 of April, Doña Sofía it will visit the town and the maternity of the Island of Ourong, and next, a center of health in Oussouye, with which the senegalesa stage of the trip will finalize. After arriving Doña Sofía at Green Cabo and being received in the Airport of Praia, it will be transferred to the residence of the honorary consul of Spain in Praia, where it will offer a reception to cooperators and Spanish citizens.
Tuesday, day 4, His Majesty will visit the projects of rehabilitation of patrimony and agricultural development of the AECI in Cidade Velha. Next, he will have lunch with the wife of President Pires, to conclude his activities of the day with a visit to a center of aid to the childhood.
In the last day of the trip of Its Majesty, Wednesday day 5, will visit several projects of the Spanish Cooperation before returning to Spain.

www.casareal.es

 

[fanletizia]

Queen will visit projects cooperation in Senegal and Cape Verde

The Queen will travel tomorrow to Sub-Sahara Africa, high-priority region for the Spanish action in solidum in the outside, in order to visit in Senegal and Green Cabo diverse projects of cooperation and to give its breath to those who works in them.
It will be a trip with a tight agenda of visits and meetings of work, in which Doña Sofía will verify personally how the Spanish Cooperation contributes in both countries to fight against the poverty and the social marginalization, and to look for routes for its sustainable development.

http://actualidad.terra.es/familia-real/articulo/reina_senegal_cabo_verde_813370.htm

 

[lula]

http://www.larioja.com/pg060402/prensa/noticias/Sociedad/200604/02/RIO-SOC-096.html

The Queen travels to Senegal and Cape Verde

The Queen Sofia initiates today a trip of cooperation of four days to Senegal and Cape Verde the one that will supervise different Spanish projects of help to the development in these two African countries. Dona Sofía will come today to Dakar, the capital of Senegal, and will support a luncheon with the president Abdulaye Wade and his wife in the Palace presidencial./E. PRESS

 

[lula]

From Afp Getty

Dakar, SENEGAL: Queen Sofia of Spain with Senegalese First Lady Viviane Wade upon her arrival at Dakar airport, 02 April 2006, at the start of a two-day visit to Senegal.

 

[lula]

http://actualidad.terra.es/nacional/articulo/reina_sofia_senegal_814520.htm

The Queen Sofia came to Senegal for trip of cooperation

The Queen Sofia came to the today midday to Dakar, the first stage of a trip for Senegal and Cape Verde that until Wednesday will allow her to visit projects of Spanish Cooperation in this sub-Saharan zone of the Africa.
The plane of the Air Spanish Force in which Dona Sofía has travelled up to Senegal Leopold Sedar Senghor of Dakar landed in the airport to 12.00 local time (14.14 in Madrid).
Afoot of track they gave to her the welcome the first lady senegalesa Viviane Wade, and the ambassador of Spain in Senegal, Fernando Morán, together with the director of the technical office of Spanish cooperation in this country, Blanca Nieves Rodríguez.
(...)

 

[lula]

From terra

Queen Sofía greets to the president senegalés, Abdoulaye Wade (dcha), in the presidential palace of Dakar, first stage of a trip by Senegal and Green Cabo that will allow him to visit until Wednesday projects of Spanish cooperation in this zone of sub-Sahara Africa.

 

[*SofiaM*]

Thanks alot fanletizia and lula...The Queen looks lovely as always!

 

[lula]

Dakar, SENEGAL: Queen Sofia of Spain accompanied by Senegal First Lady Viviane Wade arrives at a nursery of Franciscan nuns 02 April 2006 in the old town of Dakar during her 48-hour visit. AFP PHOTO SEYLLOU (Photo credit should read SEYLLOU/AFP/Getty Images)

 

[lula]

http://actualidad.terra.es/nacional/articulo/reina_visita_centro_acogida_bebes_814786.htm

Queen visits center of reception of orphan and left babies

The Queen initiated today her trip of cooperation to Senegal and Cape Verde surrounded with newborn children, you drink orphan or left gathered in a center managed by a community of Franciscan missionary nuns of Maria and financed with contributions of Spanish and French families.
In the center of Dakar, in the neighborhood of the Medina, this infantile center is, known popularly as ' the pouponnere'y in that there live half a hundred of children and girls with a few days of life and up to expiring eight months.
They are small that have lost their parents or have been left in a country, Senegal, in which a popular saying assures that ' the children are the major wealth of the poor '.
(...)

 

[Lyle]

Wow, Queen Sofia is so great! She looks so happy and I love her hands on approach to her job. Can you imagine seeing Queen Elizabeth sitting on the ground holding a baby?!

 

[Alexandria]

I think Queen Sofia is amazing! Firstly, she's had a busy week with the visit to France and now she's off again on another trip.

And secondly, I love it when the Queen visits lesser developed nations. To me, she always seems to be paying more attention and really taking in the trials and difficulties the people of those countries have faced.

And even before she was a doting grandmother, she naturally gravitated towards babies and children, holding them, hugging them and squatting down to their level and talking to them.

Queens don't come better than Sofia!

 

[lula]

http://www.larazon.es/noticias/noti_nac21858.htm

Dona Sofía visits in Senegal and Cape Verde the Spanish centers of cooperation

Dakar - The Queen initiated yesterday her trip of cooperation to Senegal and Cape Verde surrounded with newborn children, you drink orphan or left gathered in a center managed by a community of Franciscan missionary nuns of Maria and financed with contributions of Spanish and French families.
Accompanied by the first lady senegalesa, Viviane Wade, and for the secretary of State of International Cooperation, Leire Pajín, Dona Sofía listened to the explanations that sister Justina, director of the center The Pouponnere and with more than 40 years living in Africa, she was giving him on the difficulties of day after day.
The center is one of many solidary testimonies of the already long missionary presence in Senegal, a multiethnic country in which 94 per cent of thepopulation is Moslem, though the living together with the Christian minority (5 per cent) passes without problems. Spanish cooperation endorses the task of the Center of Infantile Reception across the technical office that ride opened from 2004 and that coordinates other projects in the north of the country, Saint Louis's region and in the South, in the Casamance. Projects that chase the eradication of the poverty and the marginalization and that try to stimulate the sustainable development.

 

[fanletizia]

Queen Sofia conquers Senegal

In her trip from cooperation to the African country Queen Sofía visited an infantile center accompanied by first senegalesa lady, Viviane Wade, and Leire Pajín. The anecdote of the day took place when Wade asked Reina if Leire Pajín was her daughter

http://www.estrelladigital.es/a1.asp?sec=esp&fech=03/04/2006&name=reina_senegal

 

[lula]

Goree Island, SENEGAL: Queen Sofia of Spain holds the Diploma of "Pilgrim of Goree" as she steps outside the Museum of the Senegalese Woman - Henriette Bathily - as she paid a visit to the Island of Goree, off Dakar, 03 April 2006 as part of her visit to Senegal. Goree Island, is a UNESCO World Heritage site that was a major shipping-off point in the slave trade. Others are unidentified. AFP PHOTO SEYLLOU DIALLO (Photo credit should read SEYLLOU DIALLO/AFP/Getty Images)

 

[fanletizia]

Queen Doña Sofía finishes to trip to Senegal with visit island of Goree

Queen Sofía of Spain visited Goree, historical island of the slaves in the coasts of Senegal - of where until half-full of century XIX the African black traffic began towards America -, shortly before finalizing her trip to this country today and going to Green Cabo.
Accompanied by the first senegalesa lady, Viviane Wade, the Spanish secretary of State for the Cooperation the International, Leire Pajin, and the minister senegalés of Culture, Coumba Ndoffene Diouf, Doña Sofía spent two hours in Goree, classified like Patrimony of the humanity by UNESCO.
The Spanish queen, who was transferred to the island in a ship of the senegalesa Navy, was received to her arrival by the mayor, Augustin Senghor, other civil employees and tens of inhabitants of the locality, in her majority women. Senghor gave to Doña Sofía the traditional diploma that Goree grants its visitors I illustrate and it was thankful to him to have transferred to the island.

http://actualidad.terra.es/nacional/articulo/reina_sofia_senegal_goree_816158.htm

 

[lula]

From terra:

 

[fanletizia]

Queen arrives at Cape Verde to complete cooperation trip

The Queen Doña Sofía arrived late this at Praia, capital of the archipelago of Green Cabo, to complete the cooperation trip that she yesterday initiated in Senegal and that will conclude the next Wednesday. Doña Sofía has traveled to both countries of Sub-Sahara Africa, high-priority for the Spanish Cooperation, in order to visit diverse shared in common projects and to support her to the cooperators who work in them, with those who met.
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The airplane of the Spanish Air Force in which Reina travels landed in the airport of Praia, in the island of the Santiago, most extensive and populated with this Atlantic archipelago, happened to the 16,45 hours (19,45 hours in Madrid). On track foot they waited for the first caboverdiana lady, Adelcia Pires, and the ministers of Foreign Subjects, Cooperation and Communities, Víctor to him Borges, and of Culture, Manuel Veiga.

http://actualidad.terra.es/familia-real/articulo/reina_cabo_verde_816611.htm

 

[lula]

Queen arrives at Cape Verde to complete cooperation trip
http://actualidad.terra.es/familia-real/articulo/reina_cabo_verde_816611.htm

From terra:

 

[crisiñaki]

One of the things I love about Queen Sofia is that she's always impecably dressed for the ocassion never over-the-top or badly-dressed and she proved it again in this trip!

 

[lucys]

One of the things I love about Queen Sofia is that she's always impecably dressed for the ocassion never over-the-top or badly-dressed and she proved it again in this trip!

What I also love about her is that she is daily proof that beauty really does come from within. Because if you examine her features she has never been a great beauty--but she is, nevertheless, an extraordinarily beautiful woman.

 

[Opal]

One of the things I love about Queen Sofia is that she's always impecably dressed for the ocassion never over-the-top or badly-dressed and she proved it again in this trip!

I agree... she has an instinctive sense of what's appropriate and stylish at the same time. All the Spanish royal women seem to - including Letizia.

 

[Vanesa]

Queen Sofía is THE Queen. She knows how to dress properly, for sure, she is elegant and worthy...But more important than this, is that she always wore a sweet smile as the better of her jewels, and that she doesn't act coldly, as if being a Queen was just a job. She is a Queen BY HEART and you can notice it when she smiles to little children or shakes the hands of poor people.

She showed all these qualities in her African trip.

Vanesa.

 

[crisiñaki]

Queen Sofía is THE Queen. She knows how to dress properly, for sure, she is elegant and worthy...But more important than this, is that she always wore a sweet smile as the better of her jewels, and that she doesn't act coldly, as if being a Queen was just a job. She is a Queen BY HEART and you can notice it when she smiles to little children or shakes the hands of poor people.

She showed all these qualities in her African trip.

Vanesa.

I absolutely agree with you, besides the Queen Sofia Foundation helps a lot of people in the Third World countries so her work isn't only for the monarchy's behalf but also to change the world, she rocks!

 

[lula]

From Casa Real

 

[Juanita]

WooooW!! Thank you for the WONDERFUL photos!!
The Queen is a wonderful woman! Besides she dressed the clothes of those countries, she is very close to tthe people! It's wonderful see her!

 

[fanletizia]

Queen Sofia in the streets of Cidade Velha in Cape Verde

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[crisiñaki]

She seems so close and approachable, Spain should feel proud to have a Queen like her

 

[Juanita]

Is there any video of these visits??

 

[Kelly]

I agree with all of you. Queen Sofia manages to dress simple but with elegance. And she is a very humanitarian person.