Harry was reunited with 15-year-old orphan, Mutsu Potsane, who he first met in 2004.
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Prince Harry will be arriving in Lesotho onThursday (26 November) for the official opening of the Mamohato Children’s Centre, set up by his children’s charity Sentebale.
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“I, like them, knew there would always be a gaping hole that could never be filled”, said Prince Harry of his mother’s dead in 1997.
The charity Sentebale, which means “forget me not” in Sesotho, the language spoken in Lesotho, was founded by Prince Harry and Prince Seeiso of Lesotho to honor both their mothers.
Britain’s Prince Harry is winning hearts (and of course, having a whale of a time) on his current charity tour of Africa. The center cost £2 million to build and will help care for children living with and affected by HIV. Mutsu said he and the prince “click”, adding: “I’m very comfortable around Harry, he is very comfortable around me”. The situation in Lesotho remains critical and every day children continue to lose their parents to the HIV/Aids epidemic.
According to the Daily Mail the pair were introduced at the Mants’ase Children’s Home for orphans near Mohale’s Hoek and were brought together again when the prince opened a new centre for children with HIV. We have no doubt that this year’s event will be even more successful.
In it the teenager – who is known as Mutsu but whose full name is Relebohile Potsane – fondly remembers their first meeting.
Towards the end of the ceremony the guests watched a dance troupe from the Sentebale Herd Boys School of Excellence, before Harry, Seeiso and the king joined one of the boys on stage and each received a grey woollen blanket, traditionally worn by Lesotho’s Basotho people. “I think Harry has mentioned some time ago that he hopes his mother is quietly comforted that he’s doing what she would be expecting”.
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Harry took turns in photographing the children, who are part of a Getty Images-supported project using instant photography as an educational tool. Speaking partly in English and partly through a Sesotho interpreter, Mutsu said: “I felt very happy, very excited”.
