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In 2017, less than three weeks after Salvador Gómez-Colón's fifteenth birthday, Puerto Rico was struck by a historic Category 4 hurricane. Residents were completely caught in the dark, news about Hurricane Maria broke only two days before it made landfall. Salvador and his family fared better than most, but many in his community were left with destroyed homes and little access to basic resources. Unable to ignore this suffering, Salvador put h...

Suffering heavy damage in the wake of Hurricane Maria in 2016, Puerto Rican communities lacked access to clean water and electricity. Salvador Gómez-Colón couldn't ignore the basic needs of his homeland, and knew that nongovernmental organizations and larger foreign philanthropies wouldn't be able to address these issues as well as he could. He founded Light and Hope for Puerto Rico and raised more than $100, 000 to purchase and distribute sol...