Tori Carter, Sophomore at Oswego High School, is participating in a People to People program founded by President Dwight D. Eisenhower in 1956. This summer, Tori will be going to England, Ireland, Scotland and Wales to learn leadership skills and about the the cultures of students from other countries.
The objective of the program is to promote international understanding while building leadership skills among America’s youth. The 19-day experience includes meetings with government officials, interaction with other students her age, educational activities, and home stays with host families.
President Eisenhower believed that if people from different cultures could come together in peace and friendship, so eventually would countries. Since its founding, People to People has launched many international programs, including Sister Cities and Project HOPE.
Tori’s trip will cost $7,000 total. She has completed several fundraisers to finance her trip. Those include: baking and delivering pies at Thanksgiving, selling handpicked pecans, cooking and selling an original recipe of apple butter, making and selling concrete bird baths/feeders from elephant ear leaves, participating in the craft show at the Chetopa Pecan Fest and the Edna craft show, selling chances on a $100 bill and a handmade quilt, compiling and publishing a Carter family cookbook.
Her next fundraiser will be a roast pork dinner on Saturday, March 21, at the Oswego Community Building starting at 5 p.m. The meal will include: pulled pork with barbeque sauce on the side smoked by Dusty Moses, her  cousin, baked beans made by Steve Blackledge, her uncle, potato salad, desert, drinks of coffee, iced tea or water. Donations will be accepted.
An auction will be held at 6 p.m. of various items.
Tori is the daughter of Bob and Ruth Marie Carter, granddaughter of Patty and Terry Walker and Bob and Wilma Carter, all of Chetopa.