TJ Kim lost the end of his school year and his lacrosse season, but has responded to the COVID19 pandemic by doing good with the one piece of his normal life he has left: his flight lessons.
The coronavirus has disrupted the fabric of daily life in the United States and around the world, shutting down many of our major institutions and exposing existing systemic failures. One teenager in Virginia lost the end of his school year and his lacrosse season, but has responded to the COVID-19 pandemic by doing good with the one piece of his normal life he has left: his flight lessons.
TJ Kim — a sophomore at Landon School in Bethesda, Maryland — has been flying medical supplies to rural hospitals as part of what he’s calling Operation SOS . According to the AP, one recent flight included thousands of gloves among a slew of other pieces of personal protective equipment . The project comes as“They kind of conveyed to me that they were really forgotten about.
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