Letcher County Flood Relief
Back in 2022, the eastern portion of Kentucky was ravaged by many storms, resulting in devastating flooding. In 2024, our state is still recovering from the damages done, still repairing homes and lives that were forever changed. This April, Clean4Change set off with Morehead State University’s Evergreen group from the 26th through the 28th to help one of the families whose lives were forever altered.
“People don’t realize the importance of ‘home’ until they don’t have one.” — Letcher County flood victim.
We had a very successful trip in April and another in May, clearing out four rooms in this family's house and really starting the process to get this family home! But there is still a lot of work to be done on this house and many others. Thank you for your donation to send us back to Letcher County many more times. Through solidarity with our neighbors, we can all grow stronger!
We are now working at the Colson Civic Center in Letcher County, an important center to the local community. They host fun community events and assist the community in many other tangible ways, like coat drives in the winter and toy drives for Christmas. We took our first trip to this center in June and were able to clean up and repaint one of the rooms in the building, but the rest of the rooms also need attention. This project will take at least another two years, just at this community center.
Donating today will help our team get out to Letcher County to start this work, it will help to feed our volunteers and will assist in getting our workers to the site. Working to relieve the flooding today is the hope for a better tomorrow.