- June 18, 2021
- Posted by: Stratford Team
- Category: Business
OCEANSIDE — After Oceanside business owner Kyle Tortora heard about how impoverished families in South India were struggling through the country’s most recent COVID-19 lockdown this spring, he immediately started fundraising efforts to donate thousands of bags of rice to hungry families.
It was 21 years ago when he first started his business, Lotus Sculpture, by collecting Hindu and Buddha sculptures to sell all around the world on his website (www.lotussculpture.com). Through his travels and his work, Tortora has made many connections with artists throughout India over the last two decades.
“Some of them are my best friends,” Tortora said.
Tortora found out from his friends in India about how dire the COVID-19 situation was there during a massive surge in positive cases throughout April and May.
“It’s much worse than the news,” Tortora said according to his friends.
Tortora donated thousands of bags of rice to starving families in…
