SHELBY COUNTY, Ala. ( WBRC ) - A local high school student is working with his peers to help children on an international level.

Jai Varikuti is a sophomore at Oak Mountain High School. He says during his freshman year of high school, he saw a video following a massive international disaster. Varikuti described what he watched – kids walking through rubble and carrying water jugs, some of those jugs, he said, were bigger than the children’s entire bodies.

“It was hard, it hit me hard,” said Varikuti. “Here, right now, we’re blessed to be worrying about homework and tests, but while kids our age in third-world countries are literally fighting to just have means to survive.”

Varikuti said that moment stuck with him and it gave him a realization.

According to their website, the United

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