Update 27 Sept., 2019 - Prince Harry is on a visit to Angola to keep his mother's hard work of clearing landmines alive.
There still 1200 landmine in the country to be cleared and 90 % of the fund had been cut. He also walk the path and blew up another landmine all in memory of his mother.
There still 1200 landmine in the country to be cleared and 90 % of the fund had been cut. He also walk the path and blew up another landmine all in memory of his mother.
PRINCE HARRY'S VISIT TO THE HALO TRUST IN MOZAMBIQUE
Prince Harry, the second son of
Princess Diana, seems to get into his mother footsteps. It seems that he found
his vocation. He is already running an orphanage and schooling in Lesotho, one
of the poorest countries in Africa.
Now, he decided to join The HALO Trust
which is heavily involved of clearing landmines and getting them
banned. Prince Harry turned out to be a great person now and I am
sure Princess Diana must be pound of both of her sons.
It was Princess Diana's last
involvement. She travelled to many places and visited the victims. To highlight
the danger she went through a minefield.
Princes Harry now highlighted the
danger and terrible injuries, if not death, caused by landmines. He made a two-day'
visit to Africa. This reminds us of his mother controversial trip to an Angolan
minefield in 1997. This charity which is clearing mines in former war zones,
long after the war is finished, was brought to the world's attention by Diana
in 1997. The same year she died.
At that time the Conservatives called
her a 'loose cannon'. Princess Diana tried desperately to get all landmines
banned after seeing first hand what it can do to people. Britain agreed to
outlaw the device a few months after her death.
Michael Mansfield QC suggested that
Diana could have been killed because she drew the full attention to the
damaging effect and her campaigning to have them banned international. Mr
Mansfield QC is Mr Al Fayed lawyer and represented him at the inquest into the
deaths of Diana and Dodi.
Harry also met amputees and pointed
out to the world that they still fall victims to mines laid 30 years ago in
Mozambique. He went to the Tete province to support and find support for The
HALO trust. The details of Prince Harry's visit were kept secret until it was
over.
The HALO trust released pictures
after that and used it in a publicity campaign to raise money. The trust spends
£1.9million a year to clear all Mozambique's mines by the international
deadline of 2014. They hope that they could double their spending if they could
raise more money.
Harry, who had military training,
watched those experts painstakingly working with a metal detectors and hand
tools to clear the anti-personnel mines. Harry detonated devices himself after
a basic training.
Around the Cahora Bassa dam hundreds
of families live in 10 villages. Within feet of those villages is an area of an
unfenced mine belts. It contains 30,000 explosive devices. There the prince met
children and adults maimed for life. A 14 year old child lost a leg 18 months
ago while herding cattle.
Harry spent the night in a tent. He
wants to continue his mother's legacy, supporting the work of the charity.
HALO’s chief executive Guy Willoughby
said: "His mother was brilliant at getting the profile of the risk of
mines globally recognises. Prince Harry clearly wishes to follow her
magnificent example and is supporting The HALO Trust in its mission."
St. James's Palace stated that Prince
Harry was extremely impressed by the work he saw being undertaken by The HALO
Trust team. He has heard many times from his mother and saw during his military
career of the devastation landmines cause.
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