Disaster Recovery & Rebuild

It's hard to understand why those with the least to lose have been hit so hard.

Appalachia Service Project volunteers have been making homes warmer, safer and drier for Central Appalachian families in need since 1969. In recent years, ASP has expanded that outreach to include building new homes for natural disaster survivors and vulnerable families whose homes are beyond repair.

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Active Disaster Recovery & Rebuild Efforts

Eastern Kentucky Disaster Recovery & Rebuild

ASP is actively involved in Recovery & Rebuild efforts in eastern Kentucky & elsewhere in Central Appalachia.

To build and repair a significant number of homes for low-income families will take millions of dollars of support. Your gift of any amount–which will be matched dollar for dollar up to $100,000–will help make this possible.

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Mayfield, KY Disaster Recovery & Rebuild

On December 10, 2021, in just under 3 hours, winds reached up to 190mph in an EF4 tornado that decimated a 165 miles path through eleven counties in Western Kentucky, causing 57 fatalities.

Local, state and national partners have asked Appalachia Service Project to build quality, energy-efficient replacement homes for homeowners still in need.

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ASP's Disaster Recovery & Rebuild Impact

ASP has stepped in to help hundreds of families recover and rebuild their homes and their lives—free of charge to families. We consider these homes to be GRACE GIFTS, instantly providing home equity for low-income families and ultimately changing the trajectory of their families, and communities, forever.

Since 2012, ASP has successfully applied this strategy throughout Eastern Tennessee and parts of West Virginia, and we are confident in our ability to expand this program into eastern Kentucky too. Since ASP’s program does not include mortgages or other fees, we are well-equipped to assist homeowners with extremely low incomes who are typically at risk of falling through the cracks of the affordable housing spectrum.

Past responses include:

Dry Creek Flooding (August 2012): Washington County, Tennessee | 25 new homes built
Rainelle Flooding (June 2016): Greenbrier County and surrounding communities, West Virginia | 74 new homes built, 31 homes repaired
Gatlinburg Wildfires (November 2016): Sevier County, Tennessee | 24 new homes built
Waverly Flooding (August 2021): Humphreys County, Tennessee | 45 homes planned– 25 built