1234. How A Simple Styrofoam Cooler Changed a Family and a Village By Becky Douglas, in Meridian Magazine
This is a touching story. I hope we can each do something, probably small, to lighten someone else's day today! How A Simple Styrofoam Cooler Changed a Family and a Village By Becky Douglas · June 9, 2020 To see how you can help with the efforts of Rising Star Outreach, CLICK HERE . On a recent phone call with our Chairman in India, Padma Venkataraman, she mentioned that she had a surprise photo for me. She told me I probably wouldn’t believe she had taken it this week. She sent the following photo, and she was right—I could hardly believe it. Sixteen years ago, a terrible tsunami hit the Indian Ocean killing nearly 250,000 people across several countries. Rising Star Outreach jumped in immediately with tsunami relief. We replaced destroyed fishing boats and fishing nets for kuppams, (fishing villages,) which were the hardest hit segment of the society in India. With new boats and the replaced nets, the kuppams were able to return to their