This is simply gratuitous. Prince William and Prince Harry visited Lesotho (southern Africa) to visit nomadic shepherd boys.
They discovered that boys as young as eight years old rough the mountains to herd sheep and cattle. During the winter the temp plummets to 10 degrees below.
“They spend months, sometimes years, away from their homes and live such harsh lives that a United Nations report compared their existence unfavorably to that of child soldiers in Liberia. With little protection against the elements, many die in lightning strikes.
Others suffer sexual abuse from herd boys and face a constant battle against rustlers and rivals seeking the best grazing ground. When they return to their villages as adults, many are so feral that they run amok, raping and pillaging.”
Harry and William visited the school set up by Sentebale which is the charity he helped set up in memory of his mother. The royal brothers also rode horses to Semongkong to see some of the work being done by Harry’s charity projects. They spent time at the Children’s Centre to talk and play with the children who put on a play about AIDS and followed it with a game of football (soccer to Americans) with the kids.
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