The red volunteer vest with which Queen Letizia focuses attention

• Cooperation Queen Letizia travels to Honduras with humanitarian aid and the 'lesson' learned

Queen Letizia puts on the red vest of the Spanish Agency for International Development Cooperation (AECID) and descends the ladder of the official plane ready to work.

Ahead, 48 frenetic hours with one goal: to know and

cooperation work that Spain does all over the world.

Doña Letizia is a fundamental pillar to publicize this work and for this reason the AECID is

to the Queen, who this Tuesday embarks on her next cooperation trip to

.

Doña Letizia performs as a cooperator a job of queens.

Because she inherited these commitments from Doña Sofía, from

as she said on the day of her engagement.

Thus, since the proclamation of Felipe VI in 2014, his wife has been in Honduras and El Salvador, Senegal, the Dominican Republic and Haiti, Mozambique, Honduras again in 2020, Paraguay and now Mauritania.

"Trips to Africa are usually interspersed with those to Central America," sources from the Ministry of Foreign Affairs explain to this medium.

ROYAL EVOLUTION

Although the destinations are chosen by the Government, Doña Letizia has professionalized this type of travel,

, the issues on her public agenda and her tastes.

Even her image has been perfected so that on these trips the focus is cooperation and not her style.

Because in the first cooperation commitment, the Queen presented a very sophisticated image that was far from what was being talked about: projects to help in extremely poor places.

The wife of Felipe VI wore

she even took the Cartier bracelet for one of her dinners.

Five years later, the Queen returned to Honduras.

She was the first European royal to go on a post-pandemic cooperation trip.

In addition to delivering humanitarian aid material, Doña Letizia

he did not take off his AECID aid worker

That cooperation uniform, which it seems will also take to Mauritania, is the key so that the trip is focused on what they are going to visit and not on their clothes.

The same goes for her hair, and that of any queen.

Fewer changes in the mane, more sense of

So it is possible that Doña Letizia chooses the pigtail to land in Mauritania.

This time she touched an African country and Mauritania has a

for the Spanish cooperation.

It is also Doña Letizia's first visit to a country in the Maghreb and the Sahel.

With it, it is sought that Spain can value solidarity with this African neighbor, with whom there have been cooperative relations for 30 years.

REAL HOME

The Queen will be in Mauritania for just 48 hours, based in the capital,

.

However, she awaits some

without free gaps.

All the time working.

Doña Letizia wants to recognize the dedication of the Spanish aid workers in Mauritania.

Cooperators from both the AECID and 18 other NGOs that are in the country.

Despite the fact that Mauritania has had ten coups in its recent history, it is

in a very troubled security zone.

They are a channeling country of migratory luxury and Spain has been helping them for three decades.

A job that focuses on laying the foundations for them to continue the projects.

And Doña Letizia will be able to learn about some of those projects, of which she is well documented.

Because the Queen began her agenda this week with

for this trip.

Held in her office at the Palacio de la Zarzuela, she met with the Secretary of State for International Cooperation,

;

the director of the Spanish Agency for International Development Cooperation (AECID),

and the director of Cooperation with Africa and Asia of AECID,

They all resolved the Queen's doubts and explained the keys to this trip, focused on health, governance and gender equality, rural development and food security.

"Doña Letizia is very informed of everything related to Spanish Cooperation," according to the same sources.

Therefore, before setting foot in Mauritania, she already knows

of the inhabitants of a country that ranks 157 (out of 189) in the Human Development Index.

The Queen will also be able to learn about the work

and food security.

Support for women and nutrition are two fundamental areas on her public agenda, issues that she has also wanted to transfer to her cooperation agenda.

Precisely

is an issue with which he has an understanding with the Secretary of State for Cooperation, Pilar Cancela, who will accompany him during the trip.

She was appointed in June 2021, before she chaired the Equality Commission of the Congress of Deputies that carried out the State Pact against Gender Violence.

Equality policies that he also transfers to the Spanish Cooperation and that the Queen will know closely.

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