18 year-old Rotary Youth Exchange student Maria Ludlow, from Pachuca, Mexico, says the year taking part in the youth exchange programme has been the best one of her life.
Maria has spent the past eight and half months living in Paris as a Rotary Youth Exchange student. During this time she has been undertaking the ShelterBox Youth Exchange Challenge by helping to raise awareness and money for the charity.
‘It’s been amazing, the best year of my life,’ she said. ‘It’s really amazing raising money for ShelterBox because you see there are still people who care. ShelterBox knows what to do in a disaster and by helping ShelterBox we are helping others.’
Maria visited ShelterBox HQ in Helston, Cornwall, UK on Friday, May 13. She was spending a week in Cornwall in order to trace her family’s ancestry. Her grandfather’s grandfather was a Cornish miner who emigrated to Mexico.
The ShelterBox Youth Exchange Challenge tasks Rotary Youth Exchange students to spread the word about ShelterBox and to try and fund a ShelterBox.
Make a difference
ShelterBox’s Youth Exchange Challenge is an exciting opportunity for participants of the Rotary program to develop their skills in several areas, including public speaking, support a Global Rotary Club Project and make a real difference to communities across the globe who have lost everything.
The Rotary Youth Exchange Programme has run for more than 75 years. More than 80 students and close to 7,000 students take part in the programme each year.
ShelterBox have created multi-lingual resources to enable students from across the globe to take part in the challenge and help provide emergency shelter and lifesaving supplies to families who lose everything when disaster strikes.
ShelterBox will be at the Rotary International Convention in New Orleans from May 21 to May 25 where people will be able to find out more about the charity's work as well as the ShelterBox Youth Exchange Challenge.
Find out more about the ShelterBox Youth Exchange Challenge!
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