Britain’s duke and duchess of Sussex, Prince Harry and his wife Meghan, arrived in Jordan on Wednesday for a two-day visit that will focus on humanitarian efforts directed at the Gaza Strip and include meetings with refugees from the war-torn Palestinian enclave.

According to the BBC, the couple, who live in California and are not working members of the royal family, accepted an invitation to visit the kingdom from the director general of the World Health Organization, Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus.

Their visit kicked off on Wednesday morning with a roundtable discussion at the WHO’s office in Amman, the BBC reported, where they were joined by diplomats and representatives from United Nations agencies.

Following the meeting, they headed to Jordan’s Questscope Youth Center, where they met with staff and joined displaced Syrian children for painting and soccer.

Philip Hall, the British ambassador to Jordan, thanked the Sussexes for visiting the country.

“Your visit, your support, your appreciation of the efforts that the United Nations, including of course, the World Health Organization, the government of Jordan, and others, are making here is enormously appreciated,” he said.

The pair will meet with Jordanian leaders and additional senior health officials over the next two days, according to summaries of their schedules published by British media outlets. They will also meet with staff from World Central Kitchen, the charity organization run by chef Jośe Andrés, which is heavily involved in Gaza humanitarian aid efforts.

The Sussexes, who donated $500,000 to the WHO last year for projects to benefit children impacted by the Israel-Hamas war in Gaza, will also visit front-line physical and mental health programs and meet with children who were evacuated from the enclave on medical grounds.

The donation by Prince Harry’s Archewell Foundation was divided into three grants, with $200,000 going toward supporting medical evacuations from Gaza to Jordan, and $150,000 toward Save the Children’s humanitarian work in the Strip. The other $150,000 was donated to the Center of Blast Injury Studies, which is working to produce prosthetic limbs for children injured by the wars in Gaza and Ukraine.

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