St Michael’s Hospice is £200 better off thanks to a group of grateful American students.
The students presented the money to the Mayor of Hereford Councillor Kevin Wargen as a thank you for showing them around the Town Hall.
The money will go to the Mayor’s charity appeal, St Michaels Hospice.
The US students are sent by the People to People Student Ambassador Programme, a not-for-profit organisation based in Spokane, Washington State USA.
It was founded after WWII by President Eisenhower to promote the USA across the world.
The aim of People to People is to enable students for the United States travel the world and meet people. Every year more than 10,000 young US students tour the British Isles.
Their travel around Britain includes a three-day home stay where they stay with host families.
This summer approximately 400 of them were able to enjoy Herefordshire hospitality thanks to ECE (the People to People British arm) and their co-ordinators, Pierre and Fiona Catherineau of Present Perfect.
PICTURE: Erin Gillies, a People to People Student Ambassador from Nevada, presents a cheque for £200 to the Mayor for St.Michaels Hospice. Picture by: Andy Compton
