Palabras de la Princesa de Asturias y de Girona en los Premios Fundación Princesa de Girona 2023

Link to the news.- https://www.casareal.es/ES/Actividade... Majesties, authorities, patrons, friends. I would like to especially greet our award winners and the thousands of young people who have been involved in the activities that the Foundation has developed this year. Good evening and welcome. Being in Girona is a joy and makes this award ceremony a very special moment for me. Yesterday, my sister Sofia and I were lucky enough to get to know the model of innovation and creativity of the BulliFoundation —and its museum—, by the hand of Ferran Adrià, in the impressive Cala Montjoi, in the middle of the Cap de Creus Natural Park. And I am also very happy to have been able to visit, with my sister, the headquarters of the Foundation in the city of Girona. Tonight we are brought together by the talent of our five award winners and their commitment to society and the challenges it faces. The five are indisputable references who have taken advantage of the opportunities so that their trajectory has a clear purpose with social impact. I have talked with them and with other young people about the concerns of our generation, about what it means to train, how to find and develop one's own talent, to prepare for new skills through innovative educational models, about the awareness of living in a balanced way on our planet, about life projects when you are twenty or twenty-five years old. In my case, I'm almost eighteen. I have just finished high school and I am about to start a new stage with a period of military training. And, beyond my responsibility, I am happy because I know how much the Spanish value our Armed Forces. It is an important moment in my life and I feel very eager, and convinced, to continue learning and giving my best to strengthening values ​​with which I grew up and which today embody our five prize winners: respect for others, effort, excellence, knowledge seeking, temperance, discipline, constancy. Also, the ability to perceive reality and live with the enthusiasm of my age. That is what I can see in Sabrine: her determination to successfully build Kenya's largest network for early childcare is truly inspiring. And these are values ​​that Marc also projects, when he is proud of his beginnings in Girona to now be a professor at Yale University and a reference in the research of a major public health problem: obesity. And I am still surprised and impressed by Rafel's courage to launch himself into manufacturing satellites that collect valuable information to face challenges such as climate change. And Silvia, who has the ability to heal emotions and alleviate pain when a chronic and advanced illness robs us of any hope. And with María's story, and her extraordinary talent with the violin, I feel that effort is always behind excellence. They will tell me if it is not exciting to share together a night in which we are seeing that several generations of young people have already taken action and are offering us the best of themselves. Thank you, Silvia, Rafel, María, Sabrine and Marc for showing us the way. Thanks to the young people who trust the Fundación Princesa de Girona to keep growing, thanks to so many companies and entities that support us. Thank you for allowing me to learn from all of you. And thank you for inspiring us from Girona to so many young people of my generation who want to live in a society that is more committed to others. Many thanks