I will never forget the excitement and joy when the Kodiak brought the refrigerator back to life. The donated refrigerator sat quietly in the corner of the room. It was being used as a storage space due to the lack of electricity. A round of applause could be heard throughout the kitchen when the refrigerator’s light came on.
My heart broke in the hillside community of Lares, but I left with a greater resolve to help provide power to Mrs. Mercado and the hundreds of millions of others like her throughout the world.
Through July 22nd, Inergy will donate a solar-powered generator kit to a family in Puerto Rico for each kit purchased through the Empower Puerto Rico program. The kits will provide critical power for refrigeration, lights, medical equipment and cooling fans to families still without power more than nine months post-Hurricane Maria.
I know what it's like to live without lights, without power, without communication to the outside world - and it's a feeling many people in the world still have today.
