The Appalachian Regional Health Care, a foundation for healthier communities, donated $70,000 to seven Eastern Kentucky school districts impacted by the 2022 floods to promote the well-being of students and staff.

Each district received $10,000 each.

Officials from Floyd, Perry, Knight, Letcher, Leslie breath it and Hazzard Independent school districts received their checks on Monday.

I think the reason we're all here is because we all love our communities and we all know that our schools are the heart of our communities, and we are here to support our schools and our kids.

The foundation, since the flooding in 2022, has given away almost $2 million to individuals who needed assistance.

And we are still helping individuals through the Disaster Recovery Center here in Hazzard and Letcher County.

We had three schools that had to be completely renovated, along with five other different facilities in our district.

And so we are still working to finish those.

And so students who lost schools, lost homes and lost everything they had, and that's trauma.

Some families are still building back, just getting back into their new homes or to other homes.

Some are still living with family members and others.

So there's the needs are great and widespread.

It could be things for their new homes, whether it's appliances or continued support with food and clothing.

So we lost two schools in the flood in Perry County and we lost all the technology that went with our schools.

And we're pretty much a 1 to 1 district.

So we can use some of this fund to help buy Chromebooks, laptops, computers back for student use in the classroom.

This money will go into our accounts for our family resource and youth service centers, and those directors will use it to directly impact our families and students.

Our family resource centers are great places and partners for families that can provide food, clothing, hygiene items, cleaning.

ADAMS Essentially, if a family needs it, our resource centers find a way to get it.

We got so much money in the beginning and then it's kind of wore off.

But then, like one of the schools that lost, I asked for Chromebooks actually last week, it was like, I'm still not back to where I need to be.

So he's going to be so excited when we can go back and tell him, Well, we've got more coming and we still have needs.

As I said, it takes a long time to rebuild.

From what we went through, losing to complete schools was a big devastation to our school system.

We know that our communities are resilient.

We know that our kids are resilient.

But we also know that we need to give them all the help and assistance that we possibly can to make sure that we're not just investing financially in Appalachia, but we're investing through our children in Appalachia.

School districts also received mouth guards for student athletes from Delta Dental of Kentucky.