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Her Majesty Queen Paola of the Belgians will visit Focus |
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PRESS RELEASE
For immediate release
During 7-9 July 2009, Their Majesties King Albert II and Queen Paola of the Belgians made a state visit to Romania. During the stay in Romania Her Majesty Queen Paola of the Belgians will visit the Romanian Center for Missing and Sexually Exploited Children - Focus, whose president is Mrs. Mihaela Geoana.
The involvment of Her Majesty Queen Paola of the Belgians in social issues is well-known on an international level. In December 1992, in Belgium, is founded on the initiative of Her Majesty a foundation that bears the name of whose purpose is to assist organizations that deal with the problems of reintegration into society of the young Belgians.
Also, Her Majesty made lobby for the foundation of Child Focus, the Belgian specialist on the children missing and sexually exploited children matter.
On an international level, given the size of the issue of missing and exploited children Her Majesty Queen Paola is a member of the Honorary Board of the International Center for Missing and Exploited Children (ICMEC), along with other royal houses of representation and first ladies: Her Majesty Queen Silvia of Sweden, Mrs Laura Bush, Mrs Margarida Sousa Uva Barroso, Her Excellencey Suzanne Mubarack, Mrs. Bernadette Chirac and Mrs. Liudmila Putin.
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