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20/02/2015
Student Donates £42,000 To Homeless Charity
A 22-year-old student has raised more than £40,000 for a homeless charity after a homeless man offered her money for a taxi home.
Dominique Harrison-Bentzen was trying to make her way home following a night out in Preston when she discovered she had lost her bank card. A homeless man known only as Robbie, offered the fashion student his last £3 so she could get a taxi home.
She refused, but was touched by the offer and decided to try to raise some money to help him.
Hoping to raise £500, Ms Harrison-Bentzen has now donated £42,000 to The Foxton Centre, a homelessness charity in the town.
It is understood that Robbie had asked the student to use the money to help other people also in need.
The charity said the donation will be used to get as many people off the streets as possible.
(MH/CD)
Dominique Harrison-Bentzen was trying to make her way home following a night out in Preston when she discovered she had lost her bank card. A homeless man known only as Robbie, offered the fashion student his last £3 so she could get a taxi home.
She refused, but was touched by the offer and decided to try to raise some money to help him.
Hoping to raise £500, Ms Harrison-Bentzen has now donated £42,000 to The Foxton Centre, a homelessness charity in the town.
It is understood that Robbie had asked the student to use the money to help other people also in need.
The charity said the donation will be used to get as many people off the streets as possible.
(MH/CD)
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