Meghan Markle recently hosted a holiday dinner for Afghan women who have found new homes in California, USA.
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The gathering was held as part of the Southern California arm of Archewell Foundation’s Welcome Project, which was founded by Meghan Markle and Prince Harry to support “women-led programming for recently resettled Afghan women to help build more inclusive and connected communities.” Speaking to Marie Claire, Meghan shared that the Welcome Project “is that perfect example of seeing an immediate need and then saying, ‘Okay, how do you make this a much larger vision so it’s not just a short-term banding on a problem, but a long-term solution?’”
“For so many of them it would be very easy to go, ‘My life has ended, because everything I knew that I was familiar with is gone,” the Duchess of Sussex added. “But these moments of togetherness that they have with each other and the Welcome Project, I hope, reminds them that no, your life is just beginning. It’s a very, very different chapter. It’s the beginning of something where you’ve taken steps that you never thought you would.”
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Dressed in a sleeveless turtleneck sweater and trousers in her signature neutrals, Meghan also spoke of her own holiday traditions, and spending tine with Prince Harry and their two kids Prince Archie and Princess Lilibet. “I love the holidays,” she said, sharing that her kids are now “three and five, so every year it gets better.” The 43-year-old added that “at first, I think as a mom with children you’re just enjoying having them there, but they’re not understanding everything that’s happening yet. But now we’re at the age where I just can’t wait to see it through their lens every year.”
The Duchess of Sussex also shared that at Thanksgiving, the family is “always pretty low-key” and that she loves being close to her mother Doria Ragland, who is also based in California. She added, “I was thinking about, in the past few years of having Thanksgiving here, like many of us, I think you always make sure there’s room at the table for your friends who don’t have family, which is really key.”
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