BOWLING GREEN, Ky. (WBKO) – Three Letcher County colleges had been fully destroyed by the flooding that occurred in Japanese Kentucky final month.

On Monday, August 29th, the Warren County Public College system started internet hosting a e-book donation drive with a purpose to assist with Japanese Kentucky flood reduction efforts. Beginning a e-book drive is one thing Melissa Stephanski says is a good way for Warren County Public Faculties to help different colleges in want.

“We discovered rather a lot when our district went via the tragedy of the twister again in December of 2021, ” says Melissa Stephanski, Chief Educational Officer at Warren County Public Faculties. “The district of Letcher County’s superintendent put out a name for books as a result of they’d a number of libraries demolished from the floods, so we’re all about giving again and serving to others. We acquired that assist once we wanted it, and we determined a e-book drive could be an ideal factor for colleges supporting different colleges.”

Stephanski additionally says the e-book drive is a good way to offer again, particularly after the help that Southcentral Kentucky acquired after the December tornadoes.

“I believe the varsity system has a beautiful alternative to be fashions of what we wish our college students to develop into – the type of residents we wish to produce,” Stephanski says. “For us as adults, and for our college students, it permits us all to get entangled and be capable of give to one another. We’re all one Kentucky and all of us must help one another, so it permits us to have the ability to do this.”

If you wish to get entangled and donate to the e-book drive, WCPS asks that the books be both new or gently used. You could find out the place you may donate on their web site.

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