Princess Caroline's two-week humanitarian field trip to Africa - 2007

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Press release from AMADE

Press Release

HER ROYAL HIGHNESS THE PRINCESS OF HANOVER VISITS AFRICA’S CHILDREN


The President of AMADE Mondiale will visit the African affiliates and other
partners of Her child-advocacy organisation in Niger, Burundi, Congo and South Africa on a two-week humanitarian field trip


29 January 2007

Monte Carlo, MONACO – Honoured with the UNICEF Children’s Champion Award in May
2006, H.R.H. The Princess of Hanover (née H.S.H. Princess Caroline of Monaco) continues Her humanitarian commitment to the world’s most vulnerable children. Accompanied by AMADE Mondiale’s Secretary General Mr. Francis Kasasa, She will tour Africa to promote the rights of the
child, their protection and their well-being.


AMADE Mondiale was founded in 1963 by Princess Grace of Monaco and is based in Monaco. The non-profit organization, chaired since 1993 by H.R.H. The Princess of Hanover, seeks to promote and protect children's rights on an international level; it develops and supports
humanitarian aid programmes around the globe, and fosters ethical and legal reflection in the domain of the rights of the child.


All around the world AMADE Mondiale and its local branches advocate for children’s wellbeing and the protection of their rights wherever these are intellectually, morally or physically endangered, without distinction of gender, race, religion, language, culture, social background or
political opinion.

During Her field trip to Africa, The Princess will visit the health projects established in Niger in 2005 when AMADE Mondiale responded to the UN’s call for emergency relief following a severe nutritional crisis. In 2006 AMADE continued its commitment to the Sahel country’s children by
providing low-cost medication to combat the effects of a regionally common incurable blood disorder.


The organization’s national branch in Burundi was founded in 1995 to provide global care for orphans and other vulnerable children, medical and psycho-social care for children living with HIV/AIDS and to facilitate the social reinsertion of former child soldiers.


Since 1998 AMADE Congo/DRC provides education through various primary schools and nutritional rehabilitation programmes for children of the rural areas. In 2003, a multi-purpose centre was established to offer young girls and mother professional training and income-generating skills in
order to reduce the level of their dependence.


In South Africa, The Princess will visit partner projects financed by AMADE Mondiale and the Monegasque Government in the domains of palliative paediatric care, rural education, early childhood development and plastic surgery on children with facial malformations. The tour will end with a fundraising gala for the benefit of the Little Ones that desperately need our help.