Princess Mathilde's high patronage

[Cathérine Bergeyck]

Princess Mathilde grants her High Patronage to several associations working with vulnerable persons.

I've got the impression that it are quite a number of associations, let's take a look which ones it are exactly (unfortunately the website of the Belgian monarchy does not provide a list :()

[Cathérine Bergeyck]

There's the asociation "Europa Donna" that fights against breast cancer in the member states of the EU.

You can see a photo of Mathilde at their site

http://www.europadonna.be/

Mathilde was present at several of their meetings the past years, and handed out the first Europa Donna Award a few weeks ago.

[Cathérine Bergeyck]

"SOS children's villages Belgium"

http://www.sos-village-enfants.be/en/index.asp

[Cathérine Bergeyck]

VAGA, a Belgian asociation to help children who are born with a physical defect in their face.

At their site there's a large photo of Mathilde

http://www.vaga.be/vaga-new.htm

[Cathérine Bergeyck]

She's a Unicef ambassador. She went to Niger (see link)

http://www.unicef.org/infobycountry/niger_19337.htm

[Cathérine Bergeyck]

APEPA. A Belgian asociation of families with an autistic child.

http://www.ulg.ac.be/apepa/

[Cathérine Bergeyck]

She granted her patronage to an international conference on helping victims of rape. The conference was in Brussels, in April.

http://www.amnestyinternational.be/doc/article3240.html

http://www.rapecongress2004.be/index2.html

[Cathérine Bergeyck]

A cultural patronage: "La Monnaie", the opera in Brussels.

http://www.demunt.be/demunt-1.0/vrienden/index.jsp

[Cathérine Bergeyck]

Handicap International

http://www.handicapinternational.be/...subsection=131

[Cathérine Bergeyck]

International congress on child abuse and neglect

http://www.kindermishandelingleuven....esStartNed.htm

[Cathérine Bergeyck]

The Flemish Alzheimer Liga


http://www.alzheimerliga.be/users/ge...zapril2003.pdf

[Ennyllorac]

She does pick worthy causes. I truly think she is a sensitive, classy lady!

[Cathérine Bergeyck]

Former speech therapist Mathilde also gave her patronage to the world congress on stuttering in Gent, Belgium, in 2001.

http://www.stammering.org/ghent.html

http://www.semico.org/stutter-2001/I...ond%20ann..pdf

[Cathérine Bergeyck]

Princess Mathilde (just like queen Rania of Jordan) will work as a United Nations emissary for the year of the microcredit

http://www.yearofmicrocredit.org/pag...p_mathilde.asp

[Cathérine Bergeyck]

Since Friday (today) princess Mathilde is allowed to call herself "special representant for children and aids". She accepted the function, that was offered to her by Unicef and Unaids.

Unicef is the children's organisation of the United Nations. The organisation received an honorary doctorate in Antwerp today.

Unaids is the UN's program that fights aids, it's presided by Belgian Peter Piot. Mathilde will mostly be involved in projects that deal with the protection of orphans and the fighting of aids.

[Cathérine Bergeyck]

Originally Posted by Cathérine Bergeyck

Since Friday (today) princess Mathilde is allowed to call herself "special representant for children and aids". She accepted the function, that was offered to her by Unicef and Unaids.

Unicef is the children's organisation of the United Nations. The organisation received an honorary doctorate in Antwerp today.

Unaids is the UN's program that fights aids, it's presided by Belgian Peter Piot. Mathilde will mostly be involved in projects that deal with the protection of orphans and the fighting of aids.

http://www.unicef.org.uk/press/news_...sp?news_id=454

[Josefine]

thank you so much for these information

[Cathérine Bergeyck]

"Onder Ons"

A Flemish organization for deaf adults and adults with hearing problems

http://users.skynet.be/onder-ons/

[Cathérine Bergeyck]

the bi-annual Belgian-Dutch conference is placed under the patronage of Philippe and Mathilde and also the patronage of Willem-Alexander and Máxima

In 2002 both couples were present at the conference in Charleroi

http://www.bnc-cbn.net/2002/frans/indexned.htm

[Cathérine Bergeyck]

A concert (30/11/2005) of Abdel Rahman El Bacha placed under Mathilde's high patronage : for the 50th anniversary of the foundation of the Centre d'Enseignement et de Traitements Diférenciés, a center where 120 youngsters with a motoric handicap get care and schooling. And also for the 25th year that the soundtherapy by the Methode Thys is being used.

http://www.bozar.be/activity.php?id=799