Prince Harry wrapped up his three day visit to Guyana by meeting with children who have faced difficult circumstances in their lives.
With the Sunday morning sun beaming down over Georgetown, Prince Harry arrived at the Joshua House to meet and interact with the Children who live there.
The Joshua House is one of Guyana’s oldest charitable homes for children and is home to fifty children who have found themselves facing difficult circumstances in their lives.
Just after meeting the Administrators and listening to the children sing a welcoming song, the Prince toured a small vegetable garden maintained by the children and also had a first hand look at their dining and playing areas as well as their dorms.
The colourful dorm for the girls, decorated with teddy bears and brightly coloured bunks, caught the Prince’s attention. The girls giggled as he told them the boys dorm was boring and should be updated to match theirs.
He enquired about their time in the home and became fascinated when he noticed one bed that was packed with teddy bears.
“No one should have this many teddy bears”, he said jokingly, after being told that they all belonged to one girl who loves teddy bears.
Before leaving the dorm, he found himself facing tough questions from one of the girls, who wanted to know what was it like to be a Prince.
He responded by saying that “there’s good and bad. But with lots of good”.
The Prince of Wales was also asked about Buckingham Palace and whether he had middle names. He answered all of the questions, before joining all of the children of the home in the recreational hall to answer more questions and ask some of his own.
As he left Joshua House, he greeted several persons who had gathered outside including a woman decked out in her Church clothes with matching hat. She hugged him and told him that she had also met his aunt, Princess Anne, when she once visited.
The Prince concluded his official visit to Guyana with a reception with First Lady Sandra Granger. At that event, he met and held discussions with teenage mothers and also young girls who were victims of human trafficking.
This was Prince Harry’s first visit to Guyana and it formed part of his tour to the Caribbean. He left Guyana just before 1:00pm for Barbados to catch his flight back home.
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