The East Kentucky Dream Center plans to renovate and open a new site along Russell Street in Elkhorn City in order to provide free groceries and clothing items to people in need. Submitted photo
The East Kentucky Dream Center has shared more details on its new Elkhorn City location, and officials are excited about what this expansion means for the local people in need.
The East Kentucky Dream Center is a faith-based non-profit organization currently based in Pikeville that serves free meals and donates food boxes, hygiene products, clothing vouchers and household items, among other things, to people in need.
Debby Bailey, executive director of the Grace Fellowship Community Kitchen, left, poses with Janet Johnson, WIC coordinator with the Pike County Health Department, and Tammy Riley, Pike County Public Health Director, while they hold a check worth $3,500 for the Grace Fellowship Community Kitchen. News-Express photo by Nicole Ziege
The Pike County Health Department received a $25,000 grant in order to address food insecurity, and that funding will go toward helping two local non-profits distribute food to families in need.
PCHD received its grant from No Kids Hungry, a campaign from the national non-profit organization Share Our Strength, which is an organization focused on reducing hunger and poverty. The organization has donated a total of $3 million in No Kid Hungry grants to serve more than 120 early child care centers, healthcare providers and community organizations across the country.
Throughout the first year of the COVID-19 pandemic, non-profit organizations in Eastern Kentucky have faced a greater need than ever before, and they have worked together to meet that need.