One area school district comes together for two families
The Louisville Municipal School District is rallying around two families.
LOUISVILLE, Miss. (WCBI) – The families lost everything in house fires last week, within three days of each other.
Both families have students at Louisville and Noxapater schools, but the entire district is working together to collect donations and raise money for the two families.
Fires destroyed two homes for two families in the Louisville Municipal School District.
An electrical fire caused Kenisha Hughes’s family to lose everything, just days after another family lost their home.
“I had just got through saying, ‘I have to donate to that family.’ And then, for me to go to work and leave my kids, and then I get a phone call from work that my house is on fire and that my kids are in there, I mean, it was really tragic.”
The fire department says the house is a total loss.
Now, school leaders are stepping up to help their own.
“We’ve had house fires and it’s been very similar, but I don’t know that I’ve ever seen the amount of support that I’ve seen with this. It’s pretty amazing to be honest with you, what our kids, actually where their hearts are,” says Louisville Municipal School District Superintendent, Dr. Randy Grierson.
Donations are being collected and money is being raised by everyone in the district.
“Great people. Great kids and it’s just hard, and so what our administrators of the schools have done, they’ve done some amazing things and just equally important our kids. Our kids have come together and rallied together and are doing certain things to help these families.”
Including making this list that has sizes of clothes and shoes that the impacted students need.
An act of kindness that this Louisville mother is more than grateful for.
“I just thank God for the love and support that’s being shown and stuff and I couldn’t ask for a better place to live right now, besides Winston County.”
Hughes has two children at Louisville High School and another one in the elementary school.
Two of them were at home sick when the fire broke out.
The single mother says she’s thankful she’s not planning a funeral.
“To walk in the house and I have nothing left from what I work for, I mean it was sad, but that’s material stuff. The thing that really means the most to me is that my two babies were still living.”
Hughes has already lost one child a few years ago.
Pictures of her, left unscathed by the blaze, giving her hope after losing so much.
“I looked at that and that just touched my heart to be able to walk in there and see those pictures still up on that table.”
Hughes says her family has already started receiving donations.
Red Cross has her and her family currently living at a local motel.
A close friend has also started a GoFundMe account for the family.
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