Student offers up space to share friendship

Students at a Charlottetown high school are being invited to "take a chance and sit down with people."

Charlottetown Rural Grade 12 student Tess Lyons has helped bring three friendship benches to the school.

"I thought if there was benches around the school it would give people the opportunity to just like take a chance and sit down with people instead of walking around throughout their lunch," said Lyons.

Lyons applied to the Royal Bank's Make 150 Count campaign, and was one of more than 1,000 young Canadians who earned a $150 grant.

The goal of the campaign is to give young Canadians a chance to make your community a better place.

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