by admin | Nov 9, 2018 | Basic Needs, Coats, Home Page, News
The distribution of winter coats at the headquarters of our partner Come-Unity Cooperative Care (CCC) in Laurel County, Kentucky was orderly and efficient. That’s not an easy thing to accomplish when there are 276 coats to be distributed to children in need. First...
by admin | Aug 20, 2018 | Basic Needs, Featured, Home Page, News, Youth Programs
Hancock County has some of the best people in Tennessee, notes Brian Greene, principal of Hancock County Elementary School in the small town of Sneedville, who adds, however, “we are also a highly depressed area when it comes to jobs.” “Because there are few jobs in...
by admin | Jun 5, 2018 | Basic Needs, Featured, General, Home Page, News, Youth Programs
by admin | Feb 21, 2018 | Basic Needs, Featured, Gen, General, Home Gen, Home Page, News, Personal Stories, Utility Assistance
For the first time in 65 years of married life, after coming home from the hospital himself, Mr. Jones was scared his wife would also return from the hospital to a cold home. He had been out for three hours driving from one church to another determined to find someone...
by admin | Feb 20, 2018 | Basic Needs, Get Involved, Home Page, News
We help to provide dental health tools for children in Appalachia because there is clear evidence that dental inequality hurts them in ways that many people can’t imagine.You may know, for example, that there “are striking disparities in dental disease by income. Poor...
by admin | Feb 15, 2018 | Basic Needs, Featured, Home Page, Mighty Molars, News, Wellness
Poor dental health is not only painful for children, but is also correlated to persistent poverty. As noted in the New York Times – “Experts have long observed that people’s teeth both reflect and reinforce poverty.” This is why we work so hard to...