Podcast 100 – Prince Harry is Back in the Saddle And WeThe15 is Launched

Prince Harry was literary back in the saddle when he hosted the Sentebale ISPS Handa Polo Cup in Aspen, Colorado, USA. Funds raised will be used to help to meet the funding for Prince Harry’s and Prince Seeiso's charity Sentebale,  an organization that supports vulnerable children in Southern Africa who are impacted by extreme poverty, inequality, and the HIV/AIDS epidemic.

Sentebale was founded by Harry and Prince Seeiso in 2006 following Prince Harry’s gap year to Lesotho in 2004. After ten years working in Lesotho, in November 2016, the charity launched operations in Botswana.

Sentebale means 'Forget me Not' and the name was chosen as a memorial to the charity work of the two Princes' mothers, as well as a reminder not to forget Lesotho or its children. 

Dr. Handa and his International Sports Promotion Society (ISPS Handa) has been sponsoring Sentebale’s polo matches for quite a few years. https://ispsgolf.com/

Dr Haruhisa Handa is a Japanese businessman, musician, writer and philanthropist, and has founded numerous charitable organizations both in Japan and internationally. He believes that sport has the power to inspire, transform, and unite people and communities across social, racial and socio-economic barriers. Handa is the founder of the Japanese and International Blind Golf Associations. 

Sentebale reported on their website that this year’s Polo Cup, together with Prince Harry's generation personal donation,  will allow them to operate at full scale and will mean more children and young people across Lesotho and Botswana will receive essential support, care, and build skills to be more resilient and self-sufficient in the future. 

In other Prince Harry news, Harry’s Invictus Foundation has become part of the newly launched WeThe15 campaign. WeThe15 describe themselves as sport’s biggest ever human rights movement to end discrimination. WeThe15 aims to transform the lives of the world’s 1.2 billion persons with disabilities who represent 15% of the global population.

Launching at the Tokyo 2020 Paralympic Games, WeThe15 say that like race, gender and sexual orientation, the organizers want to have a movement all persons with disabilities can rally behind. A global movement that is publicly campaigning for disability visibility, inclusion and accessibility.

https://www.wethe15.org/ is being spearheaded by the International Paralympic Committee (IPC) and International Disability Alliance (IDA) and will be working with a coalition of international organizations from the world of sport, human rights, policy, communications, business, arts and entertainment. Prince Harry’s Invictus Games Foundation is part of the coalition.

On the sports side of things WeThe15 say sport, and events such as the upcoming Tokyo 2020 Paralympic Games, are hugely powerful vehicles to engage global audiences. There will be at least one major international sports event for persons with disabilities to showcase WeThe15 each year between now and 2030. 

On 19 August, more than 125 iconic landmarks, spanning 30 countries and multiple time-zones were lit up purple, the international colour for disability to celebrate the Launch of WeThe15. 

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Show written and produced by Jeanette Songolo.

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