The Queen Fabiola Foundation for Mental Health is a Belgian non-profit organization, named after Queen Fabiola of Belgium. It operates within the framework of the King Baudouin Foundation
The fund was founded on 10 October 2004 on World Mental Health Day. As its main objective the foundation organizes activities in the field of mental health and stimulates the exchange of ideas and good practice between the various organisations and association, which are active in this area.
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