July 9, 2008 Charitable work continues in royal family Play video

(NECN/ABC) - Britain's Prince Harry is spending part of his summer vacation helping AIDS orphans in Africa. The third-in-line to the throne is helping to rebuild a school in Lesotho. With this trip and his service in Afghanistan, many say it could be the Prince once known as a troublemaker has grown up.

It is a long way to Africa from the polo fields Prince Harry favors. Harry is in Lesotho helping to rebuild a special-needs school for AIDS orphans, a cause close to his mother Princess Diana's heart.

The Prince founded a small charity to help children in a country where 1/3 of the populations is HIV positive, a problem the government there has largely ignored.

Harry has been better known for his late night antics out on the town with and without his girlfriend. But, during his military service in Afghanistan earlier this year, Harry spoke of making his mother proud.

Now in Africa, further proof he's a changed man, Harry is continuing the work his mother loved and was loved for.

ABC's Gloria Riviera reports.