Meghan Markle and Prince Harry are scheduled to visit Survivors' Network, a charity for sexual assault survivors, during their visit to Sussex, England next week. The organization, which is the Rape Crisis Centre for Sussex, offers support for survivors of sexual violence and aims to reduce sexual abuse and its impact, according to its website.

Meghan and Harry's visit to Survivors' Network arrives at a time of heightened conversation in the U.S. around sexual assault—not only in the midst of the #MeToo movement, but with demonstrators taking to the street earlier this week in support for survivors using the social media hashtags #BelieveWomen and #BelieveSurvivors after three women came forward accusing Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh of sexual assault. The upcoming trip was actually announced the same morning as Dr. Christine Blasey Ford's Senate hearing about her allegations against Kavanaugh.

The engagement dovetails Markle's ongoing support for women and women's issues. In February, during her first appearance with the Royal Foundation, she praised the #MeToo and Time's Up movements while encouraging women to feel empowered and use their voices.

"[I] think right now in the climate that we're seeing so many campaigns, I mean, Me Too and Time's Up, there is no better time to continue to shine a light on women feeling empowered and people really having to support them—men included in that," she said. "It makes such a tremendous difference."

The visit to Survivors' Network is one of many engagements in the couple's schedule for the October 3 trip—their first-ever official visit to Sussex, Kensington Palace announced. In West Sussex, they'll see the Sussex Declaration, the "only known parchment manuscript copy of the Declaration of Independence apart from the engrossed and signed parchment in the National Archives," according to Harvard University. They'll also open the University of Chichester's Tech Park.

In East Sussex, the couple will visit Royal Pavilion and Peacehaven Youth Centre, in addition to Survivors' Network.