Prince Harry and Meghan Markle are delivering meals to vulnerable people in LA

The Duke and Duchess of Sussex are volunteering for Project Angel Food
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Marissa Desantis17 April 2020

Prince Harry and Meghan Markle may still be settling into their new life in the US, but the couple has wasted no time getting involved in the community.

As shelter in place orders continue in Los Angeles - where the Duke and Duchess of Sussex recently moved with their son Archie - many disadvantaged communities are in need of basic resources like food.

To help out, Entertainment Tonight reported that Harry and Meghan teamed up with Project Angel Food. The nonprofit organization delivers free, healthy meals across Los Angeles County to those who are too sick to shop and cook for themselves, and it has seen an increase in need since the coronavirus pandemic.

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“They told us they heard our drivers were overloaded and wanted to volunteer to lighten the drivers’ workload,” Project Angel Food’s executive director Richard Ayoub told ET of Harry and Meghan.

The couple reportedly first volunteered on Easter Sunday, and asked to help out once again on Wednesday, delivering meals to 20 people in West Hollywood.

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"I am blown away that they chose us,” Ayoub went on to say. “They care about our vulnerable population. Our clients are most at risk to contract the coronavirus, having compromised immune systems including heart disease, lung disease, diabetes, and most are over the age of 60,” he explained.

Cooking, in particular, has always been important to Meghan.

Prior to meeting Harry, she volunteered at a soup kitchen in Toronto, when she was living in Canada filming Suits. Meghan also frequently shared her favorite recipes on her lifestyle blog, The Tig.

Meghan Markle visits the Hubb Community Kitchen in London on November 21, 2018
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And once she became a member of the Royal Family, Meghan’s first humanitarian effort was helping women who had been displaced from London’s Grenfell Tower fires with a cookbook.

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After joining the women in the Hubb Community Kitchen where they cooked for their families and the community, Meghan helped them to develop a cookbook whose proceeds benefitted the facility and related community projects.

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