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Her royal highness, Queen Rania Al-Abdullah of Jordan, will be visiting Harlem’s new Echo Park with Marian Wright Edelman, President of the Children’s Defense Fund (CDF) on Wednesday, September 20 from 1:30 to 2 p.m.

Echo Park, located at 1841 Park Avenue on the corner of East 126th Street in Harlem, is a facility for families and children built by the Association to Benefit Children (ABC).

The Association to Benefit Children is a recognized leader both locally in New York City and nationally for their innovative and humane programs to help children and their families. Like Rania’s groundbreaking work with education and economic empowerment for women in Jordan, CDF and ABC promote a strong family-centered approach to combating poverty and promoting opportunity. In addition to the groundbreaking health care and early childhood education programs for children that they provide at Echo Park, ABC also integrates and wraps into their program a number of family preservation services to strengthen and support vulnerable families.

Rania and Edelman Wright will speak with the parents and participants in the program during their visit which is part of a continuing commitment to highlight the importance of health care and education for women and children around the world, and their new global women’s action network for children which was launched in Jordan this past June.

Related: Echo Park :: Queen Rania’s website :: Children’s Defense Fund ::