Praise for Prince Harry from Scottish landmine clearance charity
Video report from Lewis Warner.
The head of a landmine clearance charity, based in Southern Scotland, has thanked the Duke of Sussex for his support.
Prince Harry visited Angola earlier this month, on behalf of the Halo Trust, 22 years after his mother, Princess Diana, went to the same spot.
The prince discovered there have been huge improvements since her visit in 1997 and was today thanked for joining the charity's latest campaign.
HALO Trust Chief Executive James Cowan accompanied Prince Harry in Huambo, Angola.
The area is now a thriving street filled with shops, houses and a school.
James Cowan, 55, said: "It was clearly an emotional visit for Prince Harry to follow in his mother's footsteps and see her legacy in Huambo first hand. This visit mattered a great deal to him.
"He was hugely struck by the transformation in Huambo and is incredibly passionate about honouring the work started by his mother. He is committed to helping HALO emulate in Angola what we've achieved in Mozambique by making it mine free.
"The Angolan government has announced $60million of funding to the HALO Trust to clear 153 minefields in the south east of the country.
"This new project will take us five years and combines three things that are closest to Prince Harry's heart - the humanitarian, his love of Africa, and his love of the wilderness."
Cowan added: "This project will be carried out where Angola borders the Okavango Delta, which is home to 50 per cent of the world's African elephants.
"Currently, those elephants cannot migrate into Angola because they'll be directly killed by landmines or indirectly killed by poaching.
"Poaching is a consequence of poverty, and poverty in that part of Angola is caused by minefields because people can't grow normal crops, so they rely on bush meat.
"Clearing these landmines will open up that land to being restored to its proper use as one of the world's great natural wildernesses.
"We're helping the Angolan Government diversify its economy, get eco-tourism going and give sustainable livelihoods to the communities who live there.
"I've met women who have not only been widowed, but they themselves have lost a limb to a landmine and yet they are bringing up children and trying work to feed their family.
"Our work is really quite straightforward. We are giving these people jobs. Demining used to be a very male world but we are increasingly recruiting women and trying to reach a 50/50 workforce.
"We not only offer a short-term job being a deminer, which is a good living, but then we hand over the land and we create a long term living by creating a farm that was once on the land that's been demined.
"Prince Harry's visit has really put a focus on demining in Angola. It will take us five years to clear these 153 minefields.
"But that's only 153 of 1,200, so there's a lot of work ahead and money to be raised before we can totally clear Angola of deadly devices."
The Halo Trust is being supported by the UK Government's Aid Match scheme.
It means Every pound pledged to HALO from now until December 22 will be doubled, with the hope of saving even more lives.
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