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Way to Go: Lauren Tepper, Garden City

Lauren Tepper, an eighth-grader at Garden City Middle

Photo credit: Photo by handout | Lauren Tepper, an eighth-grader at Garden City Middle School, makes and sells yarn bracelets to benefit Project Huts to Homes.

Lauren Tepper is working to improve lives in India -- one homemade bracelet at a time.

The eighth-grader at Garden City Middle School makes bracelets of colored yarn and sells them outside her house on weekends to benefit Project Huts to Homes, a program that sends kids to school and provides homes and goats to needy families in India.

She first worked with the program two years ago...

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