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Queen Silvia Launches World Childhood Foundation Project

Queen Silvia of Sweden attends the opening ceremony of the second Childhood House at the Heidelberg University on 5 September 2019 in Heidelberg, Germany. The institution is one of around a thousand projects around the world run by the World Childhood Foundation, which was founded in 1999 by Queen Silvia to protect children's rights to a safe childhood, as well as highlight issues concerning the sexual exploitation of children and other problems linked to orphanages.