In Her Own Words: An Interview with a Principal

We spent time in Eastern Kentucky serving an elementary school that was impacted by devastating flooding. While there, we had the opportunity to talk to a principal of a neighboring school that we hope to serve soon. Take a peak at what she had to say when we asked her about her community and school after those floods:

I always felt like we were really good, before the flood, about meeting our kids’ needs. But the flood changed everything.

It brought us to our knees a little bit. It humbled us. But, I felt very blessed because when we first started providing items we had a little table in the lobby and we felt like we were on it. But then families and children started coming in with no clothes and no shoes.

We had kids who would come in and say, ‘what do you have food-wise?’ A lot of families didn’t have electricity. We were fortunate to have electricity in the school, even though we didn’t have water, so a staff member fed the whole community for about three weeks. She cooked every day in the cafeteria and then once the word got out, we starting delivering on horseback. Talk about interesting times! But it was a blessing in hindsight because had we not done that, we wouldn’t have met the families deep in the hollers that we didn’t know about.

It made us stronger and drew us closer together as a community because we made it through that.