Looking forward

13 or more NGO's will be meeting in the coalfields of eastern Kentucky this week to discuss their strategies and needs to assist in these communities as they make a transition from often impoverished strip mining communities; primarily strip mining in the form of MTR, to more financially, socially, and environmentally rewarding and sustainable ways of life. Those gathered will gain input from local citizens, local and regional citizen groups and folks quite knowledgeable on the human cost to ones health, as well as the history, and culture of the families who have lived in these mountains for generations.