When devastating wildfires swept through Southern California in January, 14-year-old Avery Colvert knew she had to do something. What she didn’t expect was for Meghan Markle and the Archewell Foundation to lend a helping hand in what Colvert says has turned her charity, Altadena Girls, from a temporary relief effort into a full-blown nonprofit organization.
The eighth-grade student tells Marie Claire that while her Altadena home was spared in the Eaton fire, her school, the Eliot Arts Magnet Academy, was not. “I felt really bad that I didn't lose my home because almost everybody I knew lost everything in the fire,” she shares. “Their homes, their cars, their everything, all their stuff.”
