Diana was a tireless
charity worker using her celebrity status to campaign for the causes
she believed in. When the Princess decided to scale down her work in
1996 more than a hundred organizations were named as having been
recipients of her time and backing.
Instead, she decided to concentrate her efforts on six
organizations: Centrepoint, working with the young and homeless,
the
Leprosy Mission, which treats leprosy
sufferers in over thirty countries,
the National AIDS Trust, working
with HIV and AIDS patients, the children’s hospital
in Great Ormond
Street, the Royal Marsden Hospital, which specializes in the
treatment of cancer and the English National Ballet, as dance was one
of her great passions. The Princess took on causes which were viewed
as 'difficult
or 'unfashionable'.
In 1987, Diana was the first high-profile figure to be seen shaking
hands with an AIDS patient. Ten years later, her involvement in the
campaign to ban land mines provoked an international reaction and
brought the issue to prominence in a way that no one else could have
achieved
The
Work Continues
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Photograph © Tim
Graham
Photograph © Tim
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