All right, welcome back to a special edition of the Mo News podcast. I'm Oshuanunu here.

Recently took a trip to Kentucky. Some of you might have followed our coverage here on the podcast, as well as over on Instagram.

In this edition, we're going to take a deeper dive into our visit there in the aftermath of the deadly tornadoes that struck the state,

talking to victims, as well as organizations looking to help. Like I told many of you,

you see the worst case scenario for so many people who've lost everything, but you also sometimes

out of these tragedies see the best of humanity. And so we'll be having a number of those

conversations today. We had the opportunity recently to travel to London, Kentucky.

That is where a powerful EF4 tornado, that is a tornado that's between 170 and 200 miles per hour,

carved a 50-mile-plus path through southeastern Kentucky.

It took place late at night on May 15th, just about midnight.

And sadly, because of that timing, because

a variety of reasons, 19 people were killed, dozens, injured, hundreds of homes and businesses

destroyed. Just one day after the tornado, we flew to the zone along with staff workers from

Matthew 25 Ministries. That's an international humanitarian aid and disaster relief organization.

Matthew 25 Ministries works with companies like Procter & Gamble to distribute daily health, hygiene,

and cleaning essentials to communities in need.

Matthew 25 leads Procter & Gamble's disaster relief operations in the U.S.

and facilitate some of their global product distribution as well.

Part of this work is what's called the Tide Loads of Hope Program, which is

something P&G launched a decade ago to help provide communities in the U.S. impacted by natural

disasters with clean clothes that are washed, dried, and folded free of charge. So we want to thank

Practon Gamble for sponsoring our coverage and sponsoring the special edition of the podcast.

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