Child safety and health are close to Queen Silvia’s heart. The Swedish Queen has worked to promote children’s health for several decades. On Friday, Queen Silvia participated in the digital event Child10 Award 2022.
The event was organized by Her Majesty The Queen’s Foundation “Care About the Children.” The foundation works to provide grants to organizations and projects that support vulnerable children. At the digital event, ten new organizations were announced that will receive support for their work against human trafficking and commercial sexual exploitation of children around Europe.
The Queen opened the digital event with a video greeting where she said, among other things: “During the ongoing pandemic, sexual exploitation of children has increased. Perpetrators all over the world have quickly adapted to the new circumstances and vulnerabilities of children. Poverty, dysfunctional home situations and limited access to school and social services around the world have put children at particular risk, especially through online recruitment and online exploitation.”
Queen Silvia continued: “My Foundation, “Care About the Children”, has since the beginning been working hard to support and ensure the protection of the most vulnerable of children through collaborations. We have been fortunate to meet numerous fantastic organizations throughout the world working to ensure the safety and support of child victims of sexual exploitation. But as the number of exploited children is constantly increasing we need to do more – and we need to do it together.“
The Queen also stated: “I am proud that my foundation has been given the opportunity to support the work of Child10 and the ten exceptional, selected organizations here today”.
