Prince Harry made a surprise appearance at Toronto’s Air Canada Centre on Thursday afternoon to participate in a WE Day celebration.
The Prince promoting the Invictus Games urged the crowd of thousands of young people to work together and help one another in order to build a brighter future.
“We are stronger when we work together,” he said.
Prince Harry previously appeared at Free The Children’s first-ever WE Day event in the U.K. in 2014, where he told the gathered crowd that helping others is “the coolest thing in the world.”
In addition to Prince Harry, this year’s A-list attendees included Kelly Clarkson, Vanessa Hudgens, Shawn Hook, Lilly Singh, Penny Oleksiak, George Takei, Mia Farrow and former UN secretary general Ban Ki-Moon.
Cobourg Media, official media of WE Day captured highlights from the event.
“We’re honoured to celebrate with young change-makers from Generation WE, who have earned their way to WE Day by taking action on local and global issues,” said Craig Kielburger, co-founder of WE.
Graham Beer spoke with Craig Kielburger who encouraged youth and families to make a difference by easily visiting WE.org.
WE Day celebrates and inspires this generation’s shift from me thinking to we acting, building a better world where everyone has the power to speak out and make choices that have a positive impact. WE host 19 events across Canada, the U.S. and the U.K.WE Day events are attended annually by 200,000 students from over 10,000 schools, thousands watching online and millions more watching through national TV broadcast in North America.
The events are attended annually by 200,000 students from over 10,000 schools, thousands watching online and millions more watching through national TV broadcast in North America.
WE Day is part of WE, a family of organizations making doing good, doable. WE is made up of WE Charity, empowering domestic and international change, ME to WE, a social enterprise that creates socially conscious products and experiences to help support the charity, and WE Day, filling stadiums around the world with the greatest celebration of social good.
Graham Beer, Journalist & Executive Producer- [email protected]