On November 16, the Foundation will hold a closing seminar at the Royal Palace in Stockholm. H. M. Queen Silvia's Foundation - Care About the Children was started in connection with the Queen's 70th birthday. During the ten years it has been active, it has worked to help vulnerable children by supporting children's rights organizations active in various subject areas, and all of which follow the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child. The seminar is a thank you and appreciation from Queen Silvia and marks an end to the Foundation. More information about the seminar, the end of......
For the application period of 2023, five re-applying projects and three new projects were awarded grants. All projects promote children and young people's rights to an education, have their fundamental righs met, and safer everyday life both online and offline Sweden and internationally. All applications received during the application period were reviewed and thereafter underwent a selection process with the help of CATCH advisory board, which evaluated the applications and after which the board made a decision. Three new projects were granted grants: Superhumans with the project "Mental health and prosthesis treatment for Ukrainian children" The Superhumans Center is......
The grants of fall 2022, were awarded two new projects and six re-applying projects, working to ensure that children and young people have their fundamental rights met thorugh receiving psychosocial support, education, safer off and online everyday life, both in Sweden and abroad. All applications received were reviewed and underwent a selection process with the help of our advisory board. Following this, the board made their decisions. Two new projects were granted support for 2022: RealStars, project Why sex cannot be bought – creating a room for dialogue with young people. In 2022, RealStars Stockholm intends to implement the project......
On June 1, the International Children's Day, the SIGHT Networks for Global Child Health and Mental Health teamed up with H.M. Queen Silvia's Foundation to address the issue of children and youths mental health alongside about 30 stakeholders. Karolinska Institutet, War Child Sweden, UNICEF Sverige and the UNICEF Innovation office presented their latest work and findings. Given that the latest reports from UNICEF show that suicide is the second cause of death for children and youth aged 10-19 in Europe and the fourth cause of death globally for the same age group, this issue is so very important to children......
On the fourth of May, Care About the Children organized an informal network meeting for 22 of the organisations that receive, or have previously received, financial support for their work with children and young people's mental health. The 22 organisations that were invited work in different ways to counteract mental illness in children and young people both in Sweden and internationally. The meeting intended to promote collaborations between the organisations and highlight the different methods and approaches they use to achieve a better mental health in children and young people. The organisations shared their successes, challenges, gave tips to each other and formed......
Two new projects and five re-applying projects have been granted financial support for the application round of spring 2022. In addition, three organizations working with the Ukraine-crisis were granted emergency-support for their work in the region as well as in Sweden. All approved projects promote children's psychological well-being, their basic rights and access to a safe existence in Sweden and/or abroad. All applications submitted to H.M. Queen Silvia’s Foundation have been carefully examined by the Managing Director and the Advisory Board, after which the Board arrived at their decisions. Two new project applications received funding Dara Institute - Psychological......
On March 25th, HHMM the King and Queen of Sweden and the Crown Princess couple invited experts from swedish civil society organisations working with the Ukraine crisis to an emergency meeting the Royal Palace. The purpose of the meeting was to share experiences to encourage collaboration between the organizations in order to strengthen children’s security and protection. During the meeting, H.M. Queen Silvia gave a speech in which she highlighted the risks for the children in Ukraine. Now. Now. Now. And now. Almost every second, a child in Ukraine becomes a refugee according to Unicef's calculations. Every such child risks......
Since the start of the Russian invasion of Ukraine, over three million people have had to flee their homes. Every day, hundreds of refugees travel from Gdańsk to Nynäshamn and from Świnoujście to Ystad in Sweden – and as of 24th of March, over 20 000 refugees have crossed the Baltic Sea to seek refuge in Sweden. H.M. Queen Silvia Foundation - CATCH has decided to support the aid organization Ukrainian Aid - Children in Need, which cooperates with the Polish company Polferries. Polferries has, since the start of the war, offered Ukrainian refugees free voyage to Scandinavia on their ferries. The efforts......
The war that has raged in Ukraine in the recent weeks has shaken Europe and the world. A total of 1.5 million civilians have been forced to flee their homes, and the UN highlights the war as the largest refugee crisis in Europe since World War II. In all wars, children are the worst affected; the psychological injuries of this war will follow the Ukrainian children for life. The Queen Silvia’s Foundation has decided to give two initial grants to two organisations operating in the border areas to, and locally in Ukraine, which in various ways contribute to the safety and standard......
During the award cermony on the 25th of February, Child10 presented the 10 awarded member organizations from Europe who have been awarded for their work against trafficking and commercial sexual exploatation of children. The ceremony was attended by H.M. Queen Silvia who also gave a speech to pay tribute to the organizations and their work. - Traffickers are fast to use digital tools and social media to recruit and attract children to exploitation and as a global society we need to quickly and jointly increase our efforts to make the internet a safe place for children to connect, learn and......