Meghan Markle encouraged students to make International Women’s Day feel “like every day of the year” during a visit to a school in London on Friday.

The Duchess of Sussex held a special assembly and also met with students in small groups at the Robert Clack Upper School in Dagenham on behalf of the holiday, which is on Sunday.

“When we thought about what I wanted to do for International Women’s Day this year, for me it was incredibly important to be with the women of our future,” she said, according to People magazine.

“And that is all of the young women here, as well as the young men who play a very large part in this. Specifically coming to your school made a lot of sense for me because of this social justice and the impact that it’s rooted in,” she added.