Wow nit picking is getting bad. So they should have included Australia, NZ and Canada??? Why only them? What makes Canada, Oz and NZ better then the other realms in the commonwealth? This is coming from a Canadian. Maybe just maybe they thought if they included one or two commonwealth countries, they would have to include them all???
There were 1800 guests at the Cambridge wedding. There are 600 to this one.
While not all guests would have donated, some would have given actual gifts, there was still a lot more money for the Cambridges to spread across 27 charities. With 1/3 the guests, it makes sense that Harry and Meghan choose to spread that across fewer charities.
I also like they chose charities that they are actually connected to. I was hoping when we saw the list of charities for the Cambridges, some might be future patronages of Kate. They were some great small charities that could use the boost. Sadly that didn't happen.
I notice people comment there is no charity connected to Meghan. Not hard, as she doesn't have any British charities yet. I guess they could have done world vision Canada but that may have been controversial. But Meghan does indeed have a link to one of the charities.
The charity in India Meghan visited when she was in India. She wrote about the charity for Time magazine. So there is a touch of Meghan in there.
To remedy this problem, young girls need MHM, access to toilets, and at a most basic level, sanitary pads. Twenty-three percent of girls in India drop out of school because these factors are not at play. During my time in the slum communities outside of Mumbai, I shadowed women who are part of a microfinance system where they manufacture sanitary napkins and sell them within the community. The namesake of the organization, Myna Mahila Foundation, refers to a chatty bird (“myna”) and “mahila” meaning woman. The name echoes the undercurrent of this issue: we need to speak about it, to be “chatty” about it. Ninety-seven percent of the employees of Myna Mahila live and work within the slums, creating a system which as, Nobel Peace prize nominee Dr. Jockin Arputham shared with me, is the key to breaking the cycle of poverty and allowing access to education. In addition, the women’s work opens the dialogue of menstrual hygiene in their homes, liberating them from silent suffering, and equipping their daughters to attend school.
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The charity reflects Meghan's interest and passion in improving the lives of women all over the world.
I think its great they didn't set up a fund, but just highlighted the charity. It likely will actually inspire people to donate more money. When you donated to the Cambridge fund, you didn't have any choice where the money went. You had no idea if the funds were equally distributed either. Some of the money would also likely end up with the foundation, to run it, to distribute.
On the other hand Harry and Meghan are asking for donations straight to the charity itself. People can choose which one they are passionate about, and donate what money they want to that specific one.
As I would have liked Australia to be on the list. The latest poll numbers for us becoming a republic are bad , well they are bad for me because I don’t a republic. It would have been nice to see Harry did think of Australia ! As I said I was disappointed
What about: Antigua and Barbuda, Bahamas, Barbados, Belize, Grenada, Jamaica, Papaua New Guinea, St Kits, St Lucia, St Vincent, Solomon Islands, Tuvalu and of course Canada and NZ????
What makes Australia more important then the queen's other realms??? If you are going to criticize them for only honoring the UK, why not include all the other realms. Or William and Kate, who only honored 2 realms either?