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Posted: 1:26 PM Feb 21, 2009
ABC News Report on Appalachia Brings Help
People have reacted with generosity to a report from ABC's "20/20" on poverty and related issues in central Appalachia. INTERACTIVE: tell us your thought's on the news report.
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FRANKFORT, Ky. (AP) - People have reacted with generosity to a report from ABC's "20/20" on poverty and related issues in central Appalachia.
The newsmagazine reported Friday that a Kentucky college has given a football scholarship to a homeless eastern Kentucky teen featured in the report. A dentist donated dentures to a toothless woman. An unidentified donor gave Hannah Montana boots to two children who longed for a pair. And Pepsi promised a fully equipped mobile dental clinic to improve the oral health of mountain residents.
The philanthrophy resulted from the Feb. 13 report by Kentucky native Diane Sawyer, who described "a place where children and families face unthinkable conditions, living without what most Americans take for granted."
If you saw the report, what did you think? Fill out the comment form below.
Latest Comments
i have worked in a mission two years in manchester ky. i have never seen so many children with so many birth defects. It breaks my heart the way people live. I think education is the answer to the problem!!!!!
well let me start by asking where are the jobs in eastern ky? oh and jim booth is a lier, I have tried to get a job with them for years to keep me from haveing a 4 hour a day drive ( id like to see some of you do that especilly you mandi) give ky some good paying jobs thats all its time we have a chance at a good life insteed of working for the low lifes in the coal fields
I live in the ky area, and know this is a coal industal area, and I watch the stories on the 20/20. I think its nice to have people help out. and Eula Hall was right when she said we need more clinics and jobs in this area. So our kids can keep the coal industey growing. thank you and God bless
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