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TheCampaign for Female Education (CAMFED), which has become closely associated withPrince HarryandMeghan Markle, won a gold medal for its garden at the show.
(Kate’s garden was not entered, as is customary for collaboration with the organizers the Royal Horticultural Society).
Designer Jilyayne Rickards based her garden on the story of a girl named Beauty, from rural Zimbabwe, whose parents died when she was 14. As the eldest in the family, she was left to raise her six siblings. At the back of the garden is a schoolroom, complete with typical traditional board games made from wood and beans used as counters, with vegetables like pumpkin, aubergine and okra growing in the red soil which was used to conjure up the look of Zimbabwe’s ground and signify the work that Beauty had to do to help support her family.
Beauty Gombana in Zimbabwe.Courtesy CAMFED
“I wanted to capture that positive message and the vibrant energy of Zimbabwe’s people.”
Harry, 34, and Meghan, 37 are aware of the garden through the Queen’s Commonwealth Trust – of which they areboth presidentandvice president,respectively.
OnInternational Women’s Dayearlier this year, Angie Murimirwa, executive director of CAMFED, was among those joining Meghanon a panel discussion. AndHarrytook up the campaign in Africawhen he visited with CAMFED in Zambia last November.
(L-R) British model Adwoa Aboah, former Australian Prime Minister Julia Gillard, Meghan, British journalist Anne McElvoy and CAMFED Regional Director Zimbabwe’s Angeline Murimirwa at a panel for International Women’s Day in London on March 8, 2019.DANIEL LEAL-OLIVAS/AFP/Getty Images
CAMFED’s goal is to raise $265,000 to help reach 30,000 “invisible” girls – those who don’t show up on official records of any kind – and start the process of getting them into school. That is “my call to action,” Murimirwa says.
source: people.com
