Meghan Markle and Prince Harry continue their Colombia tour in Cali.

The Duke and Duchess of Sussex arrived in the city of Cali on August 18, where they took part in a discussion focused on highlighting and promoting Afro-Colombian women. Meghan, 43, and Harry, 39, greeted attendees at the city’s theater and waved their hands during a musical performance by Cynthia Montaño, as seen in a video shared by Vice President Francia Márquez’s office.

Meghan took the stage during the conversation, took out an earpiece and spoke to the crowd in Spanish, then jokingly pretended to wipe sweat from her brow as the crowd applauded before switching to English.

At the start of their Colombia trip, Meghan and Prince Harry spoke Spanish at the kindergarten. While Harry asked the students their names and ages in that language, Meghan addressed her five-year-old son, Prince Archie. “You are the same age as my son Archie!” she told one student in Spanish. (They are also parents to a three-year-old daughter, Princess Lilibet.)

At the forum, Meghan said: “I was very fortunate from a young age to feel like my voice was heard and I think that’s a luxury that many young girls and women often don’t get to afford,” she said, recalling how, at age 11, she wrote a letter demanding that the language of an advert be less sexist.

“For us and the work we do with the Archewell Foundation, particularly the work we do as parents and I do as a mother, the goal is to make sure that young girls feel like their voices are heard and that young boys are also educated to listen to young women and to be heard,” she said.

Later in the chat, Meghan said with a laugh that her little daughter Lili is already learning to use her voice.

“Part of my role modeling as a mother is encouraging our daughter, who found her voice at the age of three,” Meghan said. “And we’re so proud of that because, as I said, we’re creating the conditions where young girls and young women know that if someone else encourages them to do so, they can use their voice and be heard.”

For the forum, Meghan wore a sleeveless button-down top tucked into a sequined midi skirt by Silvia Tcherassi and had her hair pulled up in an updo that showed off her statement earrings.

They will also attend a festival of Afro-Colombian music and dance during their stay in Cali, the capital of the Valle del Cauca department in the Pacific region on Colombia’s west coast. The ethnically diverse city is known as the world capital of salsa, according to the official tourism website of the Republic of Colombia, and is the third-largest city in the country with a population of almost 2.3 million, according to Statista.

Prince Harry and Meghan kicked off their trip in Bogota on August 15 with an official welcome from the Vice President. Their busy first day included an information session on social media use in a school (plus a stop during recess!), a cultural performance and a summit addressing the urgent need for responsible use of technology.

The couple spent August 16 in the country’s capital, visiting a local kindergarten class, attending a lunch hosted by Vice President Márquez and meeting with athletes from Colombia’s Invictus Games.

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The Duke and Duchess of Sussex spent August 17 in the city of Cartagena, where they attended a drumming lesson at a school dedicated to preserving cultural traditions through music education. They then visited the historic village of San Basilio de Palenque, founded in 1619 as the first free African city in the Americas.