NRF executive works with children's charity
- December 6, 2013 |
- WILLIAM EHART
SVP Vicki Cantrell helps raise funds for at-risk youth around the world, but has a special attachment to Honduran orphans "A piece of my heart is in Honduras now." Cantrell So says Vicki Cantrell, senior vice president at the National Retail Federation, who has been to the impoverished Central American country five times. Each visit has helped improve a faith-based facility called Plan Escalon (A Plan to Escalate), where about 600 at-risk youth are being housed and educated. The Plan Escalon campus is 120 miles west of the Honduran capital of Tegucigalpa. Cantrell's efforts—and those of the couple dozen other industry volunteers and their children who go on each… Read More