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Kate Middleton has been looking for the perfect charity since becoming the Royal Duchess of Cambridge last year and, by golly, she was able to find five!

After sifting through "a few hundred" requests from organizations on top of her own research, a palace source says she "chose these after approaches or because they reflected the areas she was already aware of, especially in the arts and outdoor activities."

Upon her careful consideration, Kate will be working with charities to curb addiction, support sick children and their families, preserve art and use it as therapy, and even work with the local boy scouts!

Check out the five charities Kate will devote her time and energy to below:

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Famine is afflicting more than 13 million people (320,000 of them are children) in East Africa and the Royal Couple is stepping in to do something about it!

Prince William and his wife, Kate, have announced their plans to visit a UNICEF center in Copenhagen, Denmark, on Nov. 2 in an effort to learn about the distribution of emergency food and medical supplies in East Africa.

Both will help pack food and medical supplies for the crisis, on top of being briefed by UNICEF staff about the situation.

A statement released on behalf of the couple — who got engaged in Kenya — says they "will seek to maintain global attention on the crisis in East Africa, an area well known to the Duke and Duchess, where the situation is getting worse."

Good luck, guys!

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Hooray for royalty!

Prince William and his wife Kate are opening a children's cancer center at the Royal Marsden Hospital at the end of September.

According to sources, the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge will visit the center on Sept. 29 during which they will receive a tour of the unit, meet the staff and patients, then unveil a plaque to officially open the center.

William is even following in the footsteps of his mother, Princess Diana, and will act as president of the hospital!

This is only the beginning of a long line of charitable projects for the couple. Soon, Kate will begin choosing a few causes of her own, as a spokesman for the Royal Family said:

"The Duchess is using the next few months to get to get to know a number of charitable and other causes better, so she can make well informed decisions about her future role."

Whatever she picks, we're sure she'll make a HUGE difference in the lives of those who really need it.

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