Pikeville Rotary Membership raises $300,000 to assist EKY flood survivors

PIKE COUNTY, Ky. (WYMT) – Over the previous few months, the Pikeville Rotary Membership has been touching the lives of flood survivors throughout Japanese Kentucky.

Because of beneficiant donors throughout the state, nation, and even the globe, the Pikeville Rotary Membership has been in a position to elevate $300,000 that has been used to buy area heaters, Visa reward playing cards, and different gadgets for households in want.

The membership was on the Mine Made Journey Park in Knott County on Saturday seeking to make the vacations just a little brighter for the households there.

”Its an awesome feeling to have the ability to assist anybody, and these persons are actually in a horrible scenario and want all the assistance they’ll get,” stated Pikeville Rotary Membership member David Lester. “Christmas is a giant a part of these children’ lives and we really feel like we’ve made a distinction.”

The Pikeville Rotary Membership has impacted households in Perry, Floyd, Breathitt, and Knott Counties to call a couple of. The group plans to be at Letcher County Central Excessive College handy out gadgets Monday.

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