The Crown Princely Couple's Humanitarian Fund

[norwegianne]

The pictures and discussion from the awarding of the Humanitarian fund for 2007 can be found in the thread about their visit to Tromsø and Troms

[sofajr]

Today Their Royal Highnesses The Crown Prince and Crown Princess attend event in relation to Their Royal Highnesses Crown Prince Haakon and Crown Princess Mette-Marit’s Humanitarian Fund on University of Bergen.

[sm1939]

feels like I havent see Princess mette merit for ages ! cant wait for the pictures !

[Sonnenblumenmäd]

Yes, I have the same feeling! She usually doesn't show up during the sommer months. MM seemingly really enjoys her family life. Only that! I have always had the impression that it is hard for MM to see being a princess as a job - different to Mary or Maxima.

First photos of today's event on : www. bt.no

News: It seems she got her hair cut!!!!! Like it!!!

[sofajr]

gallery from Ba:

Kronprinsparet i Bergen - ba.no

finally they appeared. nice to see the Prown prince couple again.

Mette-Marit looks great

More photos here:
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[royalist]

Originally Posted by sofajr

gallery from Ba:

Kronprinsparet i Bergen - ba.no

finally they appeared. nice to see the Prown prince couple again.

Mette-Marit looks great

More photos here:
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How nice to see them again! Both look great.
I absolutelly loved MM's shoes

[Parrothead]

Thanks for the pictures. MM looks great and the shoes ROCK! It's nice to see both of them out and about again after what seems to have been a very quiet summer for them. Weren't they just on a family cruise somewhere? If so, they quickly got back to work once they returned home. I hope that we are going to see a lot more of them in coming weeks.

[KikkiB]

A video clip (and article in Norwegian) from the CP couple's visit to Bergen. Deler ut penger - bt.no

[sm1939]

Great to see them again !

[rominet09]

It was so long since we saw them !

[norwegianne]

Crown couple fights HIV/AIDS
A humanitarian fund set up by Crown Prince Haakon and Crown Princess Mette-Marit awarded NOK 500,000 (about USD 92,000) on Wednesday to a group that helps HIV-positive children in Nicaragua.

Article in English about the event from Aftenposten - Crown couple fights HIV/AIDS - Aftenposten.no

[sofajr]

Another video from NRK:

NRK Nett-TV - hastighetsmåling

[vestfoldlilja]

kongehuset.no - Tilbake til fremtiden

NyVri.org

http://www.vg.no/rampelys/artikkel.php?artid=571583

Crown Prince Haakon and Crown Princess Mette-Marit humanitarian fond has released a competition for children between the ages 14-16. The competition is called "Tilbake til fremtiden" - back to the future. They want children to talk to their grandparents or other elders in their society, and have them tell a story important to their life, so that the children can retell the story in their own way.

The people who participate can tell the story through text, pictures, drawings, painting, video, animation or other creative, but cannot use copyrighted material.

The purpose is to stimulate contact between different generations.

Translatetion of the VG article:

Crown Princess Mette-Marit: We’ve had the idea of a competition for some time now. We’ve met so many great people; young and old around the country, but we have also seen the need for a meeting place and increased contact between people of different generations.

Crown Prince Haakon: The assignment is to talk to person older than you and for example ask ”is there a special occurrence that changed your life?” or ” based on your life experience, what do you wish to teach young people?” And then the young can ask themselves: ”What can I learn from that?”

He thinks that meetings between younger and older can be both fun and informative, and give good contributions to the competition.

The Crown Prince couple think it’s an exaggeration that young people only care about themselves and their own.

The Crown Prince: Many young have high demands for themselves, and they care about others, how they are, and I think they want to know about happenings that have lead to great changes in their grandparents’ generation.

I had a grandfather who lived in USA and Britain during the war, but my maternal grandmother could tell me how it was living in Norway during that time.

It was good for me to hear her story. To learn to different stories about the same time, gives one a perspective. She was an important person for us in every day life.

The grandparents of the Crown Princess died young.

The Crown Princess: But I had good contact with a very kind, older neighbour lady who has meant a lot for me.

The Crown Prince couple have shared their own contribution in their own video, where they talk about meetings between generations have meant for them. Crown Prince Haakon talks about, among other things, questions he would have wanted to ask his grandfather, King Olav, who died when he was 17.

Crown Princess Mette-Marit tells a story about an older Englishman she met as a young girl at an airport in Singapore, and about what his story and life have meant for her. They sat reading the same book, and that is how contact was established.

The Crown Princess: That meeting has stayed with me since.


They are now also on Twitter, well not them, but on their behalf

Det kongelige hoff (Kronprinsparet) on Twitter

I think this is great Love the new webpage, and hopefully they will have many children participating.

[Paty]

Lasse Gjertsen also made an animation film inside the Campaing Back to the Feature

kongehuset.no - Animasjonsfilm: Gammelt nytt

[Paty]

Statement of the Crown Prince Couple on the ocasion of the Campaing Back to the Future.
Maybe some Noriegan speaker can tell us what they said.

kongehuset.no - Videoarkiv

When the Crown Prince Couple visited Bergtun, they meet with some children who want to participate in the Program Back to the Feature. The Prince and the Princess tell then the propouse of the competition.
Here is a video of the meeting:

kongehuset.no - Bidrag til konkurransen

[iceflower]

Crown Princess Mette-Marit of Norway is seen attending
the Crown Prince and Crown Princess Humanitarian Fund
awards in Oslo, Norway, August 27, 2009.


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[sofajr]

see video here:
kongehuset.no - Tildelinger fra Fondet offentliggjort

[sofajr]

Today Their Royal Highnesses The Crown Prince and Crown Princess visited youth project "Be proud" of Holmlia in Oslo. CP Mette-Marit inaugurated it August 27. The project "Be proud" works to strengthen youth's self-esteem and confidence, and to promote understanding of integration and cohesion in society.
Articles here:
Kronprinsparet til Holmlia i dag
http://www.fvn.no/nyheter/innenriks/article702053.ece
http://www.siste.no/Innenriks/article4591428.ece


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[sofajr]

The winners of the "Back to the future" were named today:
The jury has gone through the submitted entries and voted the following winners:
Jarand Berg Hjukse, for the "Room No 13"
Åse May Lisle Farm, for the "Memories, Life archive"
Olav Fangel Jamtveit, for the "Oves life".

The crown prince and princess will meet the winners October 29 in the audience.

kongehuset.no - Tilbake til fremtiden

[Larzen]

Pictures from the audience
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from kongehuset.no