"I really wanted to do something to help families like mine in the future, " he said.

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King says Longoria wanted to do something to help relief efforts in Haiti and heard about aHomeInHaiti.org through friends who worked at Microsoft.

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"After losing my son, I wanted to do something to help other people, to help another mother not have to suffer the way I do every day from the loss of a child drowning, " she said.

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It may sound idealistic, but ever since he watched his grandmother go blind from Diabetes, he wanted to do something that would help people see again.

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