Support Sugar Grove Day School's Playground Recovery

I am Miranda Vaughan, the Director of Sugar Grove Developmental Day School. We are a non-profit daycare located in the historic Cove Creek School in Sugar Grove, NC. We were recently hit by Hurricane Helene. While our building is still standing, the storm did significant damage to some of our systems and our playground. The floodwaters completely washed away one of the bridges leading to our school. It wiped out the beloved park and field across the parking lot from us. I do not know how our building is still there. Thankfully, we were able to move to an emergency temporary location thanks to the kind hearts of the High Country United Church of Christ.

While our septic and HVAC were damaged, they are being fixed. We are hoping to be able to go back to our school in a month as long as there are no hiccups. Our playground, however, is still in need of repair and sanitation. We are working together with the amazing Children's Council to get it sanitized. We were able to remove debris, and we have had some amazing donations already to help with replacing some of our riding toys and balls. The flooding contaminated and destroyed just about everything that was on the playgrounds, from the toys down to the mulch and sand. We just want to provide a safe and clean playground for our sweet families.

We are reaching out to ask for support to help replace the mulch, sand, and some of the toys that we lost. We would love to have our kiddos back in their school and able to play on their playgrounds. It has been so hard on everyone seeing the school and the surrounding areas devastated by this storm. Thank you for your thoughts, prayers, and any help you are willing to give.