Meritorious Service Cross
Awarded on: 2017-04-04
Invested on: 2017-12-12
Peg Herbert is the founder and executive director of Help Lesotho, an organization dedicated to rebuilding a country devastated by HIV/AIDS. She created a model of support that combines education, grief counselling and gender equity programs to help youth and grandmothers—those most often left in charge of their households—become community leaders and role models for positive social change.