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Women of Steel Raise Money to Send Kids to Camp

Women of Steel Raise Money to Send Kids to Camp

As we've covered before, Reconnecting McDowell is a broad community effort including unions, corporations, community groups and local residents to help revitalize struggling McDowell County in West Virginia. The effort has led to many successes and life in McDowell is already improving. The latest success was a fundraising drive led by United Steelworkers (USW) members Karen Shipley and Heather Anderson that raised $5,000 to send kids to a 4-H camp.

"I never dreamed that we could raise this amount of money," Shipley said.

Read the full story in the latest newsletter from Reconnecting McDowell.

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