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Liberty University students travel to Kentucky to help with disaster relief
LYNCHBURG, Va. – Liberty College college students are offering catastrophe reduction after final month’s flooding in Kentucky.
A bunch left Wednesday morning for Jackson, Kentucky, the place they’ll take away particles and assist with different clean-up efforts earlier than returning on Sunday.
The scholars are part of the LU Serve Now program and are partnering with Samaritan’s Purse.
“The state of affairs in Kentucky may be very unhappy. We’ve a fantastic alternative right here at Serve Now to have the ability to exit to locations like this and assist the place we’re wanted; so doing what we are able to even when it solely makes a small distinction,” mentioned Hazel Van Dyk, a Liberty College sophomore participant.
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“It’s a singular alternative for college kids simply to deploy their uniqueness, their abilities, their skills to go and assist and serve others,” mentioned Chad Nelson, director of LU Serve Now.
One other group of LU college students will journey to Mayfield, Kentucky in October to assist with the rebuilding after final yr’s twister.
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