First Lady Britainy Beshear talks toy drive efforts for Eastern Kentucky families affected by summer floods – ABC 36 News

Deadline to ship new and unwrapped toys is December 14

FRANKFORT, Ky. (WTVQ) — It’s essentially the most fantastic time of the yr, the season of pleasure and giving again.

And it’s with that very same spirit that First Girl Britainy Beshear desires these in Jap Kentucky to really feel the love and help from the Bluegrass.

“Regardless that the flooding didn’t occur, proper near Christmas, households in Jap Kentucky are hurting. FEMA has approximated that 7500 youngsters have been straight affected by the flooding,” says First Girl Beshear.

Simply final week, the primary woman introduced a toy drive initiative, one which she is aware of, to assist households within the jap a part of the state have a good time Christmas.

“These caregivers, these mother and father, they’re attempting to place one foot in entrance of the opposite, attempting to determine everlasting housing, attempting to determine, you already know, the place they’re going to get their meals, the right way to get their youngsters to highschool, one thing, there’s so many issues that they must concentrate on simply to outlive proper now,” she provides of the struggles Jap Kentucky households are dealing with.”

Additionally including that she hopes Kentuckians lend a serving to hand, by sending a toy for a kid that will in any other case not have the ability to have a Merry Christmas.

“I’m hoping that this toy drive relieves a few of that burden of additionally ensuring their youngsters have a Christmas this yr, and likewise to provide magic to these youngsters who actually deserve it. We’d like toys for all ages, so no toy is just too large or small.”

She recalled the final toy drive she organized final yr for households affected by the devastating tornadoes within the western a part of the state, a reminiscence, she says is tough to explain in a single phrase, however one which she hopes to as soon as once more recreate.

“For simply you already know that that brief period of time, they didn’t have to consider every part that had occurred. They acquired to concentrate on one thing that was actually optimistic and thrilling, and so seeing the grins on kids’s faces and seeing the reduction of their mother and father faces was a really significant expertise,” she expressed as she recalled the final toy drive.

If you need to ship a toy or toys, you may go to firstlady.ky.gov/toydrive

Or you may mail a brand new, unused and unwrapped toy to:

Jenny Wiley State Resort Park

75 Theatre Court docket

Prestonsburg, Ky. 41653

The deadline to mail a toy is December 14.