A queen with her hand on her heart. Queen Mathilde of Belgium is engaged for many years For children’s rights, the protection of the family and the promotion of equal opportunities for all minors. As proof, the wife of King Philippe – who ascended the throne in 2013 – went, Friday February 9, to a school in the commune of Oud-Turnhout, located in the Flemish region, in the province of ‘Antwerp, to discuss with its young audience the thorny subject of school bullying.
Elegantly dressed inan immaculate coata turtleneck sweater, as well asblack pleated pantsthe mother of Princesses Élisabeth and Éléonore and Princes Gabriel and Emmanuel was thus immortalized chatting warmly with schoolchildren andkiss with tenderness the forehead of a little boy. As reported by our colleagues at Histoires royales, she focused in particular on the KiVa method used in this establishment, a program designed in Finland and designed to fight against harassment and promote its prevention in the school environment thanks to role plays for example. “Our society is constantly evolving. Education too. In our school, we take advantage of every opportunity to best adapt our education to social expectations.”, explains said school on its official website.
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Mathilde of Belgium, an attentive ear
This visit by Mathilde of Belgium is part of Anti-harassment week organized in Flemish schools by the association Netwerk Kies Kleur tegen Pesten from February 2 to 9. In 2022, the daughter of Count Patrick d’Udekem d’Acoz and Countess Anna Komorowska had already participated in this event by going, among others, to the municipal school of Bouge, in Wallonia. Sitting alongside the students, she had notably been moved by the testimony of a young boy who told him that he had been the victim of school harassment, as Sudinfo reported: “This also happened to me. I already told my parents about it, but It didn’t move things forward.…” he confided with pain. And his illustrious interlocutor responded kindly: “It’s a first step to talk about it as you do.”
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