The 31-year-old prince will reportedly pay tribute to his late mother Princess Diana and his former nanny by naming buildings after them.
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Prince Harry visited Lesotho in southern Africa on Thursday to open The Mamohato Children’s Centre.
Prince Harry fell of his polo pony – twice! – on Saturday, Nov. 28, at the Sentebale Royal Salute Polo Cup in Cape Town, South Africa, but he got right back up in the saddle.
Harry gave a moving speech at the center, explaining while his life was remarkably different from the kids in the orphanage, “we shared a similar feeling of loss, having a loved one, in my case a parent, snatched away so suddenly”.
But soon he was in jeans and polo shirt, outdoors in the brilliant African sunlight celebrating the official opening of Sentebale’s Mamohato Children’s Center, the first facility for Lesotho’s disadvantaged orphaned children with HIV/AIDs.
Mutsu, now 15, was a young child when he first met Harry during his first visit to Lesotho in 2004 – a trip that inspired him to set up his charity Sentebale to help the land-locked nation’s vulnerable children.
Prince Harry is a founding patron of the charity Sentebale, which built the new £2million children’s centre. “He said to me, I’ve grown up”.
During the prize giving ceremony there was some friendly banter between Harry, his opposing captain Figueras and Prince Seeiso who joined the two sides on stage.
The tiny landlocked Kingdom in the centre of South Africa has the second-highest HIV infection rate in the world with 23% of the population carrying the virus and as a result one in three children are orphans. The prince and Mutsu struck up a special friendship during that first meeting at the Mants’ase Children’s Home in Mohale’s Hoek.
Harry met Mutsu Postane, an orphan, in 2004, when he was just 4. Malcolm Borwick and Prince Harry share a laugh during the Cup’s trophy presentation.
She said: “I’m so excited to be here, I love the fact it’s in aid of charity – Sentebale. Every day when I am sleeping I always dream about you and the thing we have made such as planting of the trees which is the peach trees”, the letter reads.
The shy teenager, who speaks the Sesotho language and whose words were translated, added: “I’m very comfortable around Harry and Harry’s comfortable around me – we click”.
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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.
