[Congressional Record Volume 166, Number 10 (Thursday, January 16, 2020)]
[Senate]
[Pages S273-S274]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




                 TRIBUTE TO KARTHIK AND RAHUL CHALUMURI

 Ms. HASSAN. Mr. President, I am proud to recognize Karthik and 
Rahul Chalumuri of Keene as January 2020's Granite Staters of the Month 
for their efforts to organize donation drives at their school to 
support patients at a local cancer center.
  Karthik and Rahul, fraternal twins attending Keene High School, have 
been involved in their local community from a young age. When they were 
5 years old, their parents brought them to volunteer at their local 
soup kitchen, and helped instill in them the importance of giving back 
to their community.
  As they headed into their senior year at Keene High School, these two 
young men decided that they wanted to give back in a big way before 
they headed off to college. They founded a club at their school, 
Students for Hope, to organize donation drives with the intent

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of sending care packages to Cheshire Medical Center's Norris Cotton 
Cancer Center-Kingsbury Pavilion, which would distribute the care 
packages to their patients. Rahul, who plans to study computer science 
in college, designed the group's website from scratch to provide 
resources on how to donate.
  The group began their first donation drive in August. The brothers 
had low expectations for turnout and were shocked when local businesses 
and individuals in their community came together to donate a 
substantial amount of items for these care packages.
  Since then, they have organized two more donation drives around both 
Thanksgiving and Christmas and plan to hold another one in February 
around Valentine's Day. Although Rahul and Karthik are heading to 
college in the fall, they have tapped younger students to lead the 
organization next year.
  I want to commend Rahul and Karthik for their dedication to improving 
the lives of people who are less fortunate and recruiting others to do 
the same. I know I join the rest of the Keene community and all Granite 
Staters in thanking Rahul and Karthik for exemplifying the all-hands-
on-deck spirit of New Hampshire.

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