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Incredible Act of Kindness

This article is written by a student writer from the Her Campus at Broward chapter.

 

Teamwork! Girl power continues as these Florida women team up to wash laundry of lineman working to restore power! I absolutely love when people come together as one to do great deeds! I live in Florida, so all this is personal because I when through Irma and the wrath of it. So, let’s go deeper into this updated event:

This took place in Sebring, Florida in just as Hurricane Irma has destroyed homes from all over the Sunshine State, it has also laid the foundation for incredible acts of kindness from Floridians. Getting to the point of a Facebook post showed one such act from over the weekend where more than two dozen women stood in line at Sebring International Raceway to collect the laundry of linemen working non-stop to return power to the state.

A wonderful woman in the name of, Jennifer Taylor Koukos posted the picture of the women waiting to take bundles of dirty clothes and wash them in their homes for those who have tirelessly given up their time to get electricity up and running after Irma. “One lineman asked me what those ladies were standing in line for,: Koukos wrote. “When I told him they were waiting to be given laundry, with a look of sheer and disbelief he said, “You gotta be kidding me.”

Wow! Thousands upon thousands of utility workers have come from as far away as Canada to get Florida back to normal. Koukos ended her post, which has already been shared 20,829 times, with the hashtag #FloridaStrong.  

I'm Miss. Congeniality of Broward College North Campus, Events Coordinator of the Psychology Club at Broward College North Campus, new president of Her Campus Broward, I work for Student Services at Broward College North Campus, and I just like to get involved in many great activities that benefit my personal growth.
Ana Cedeno is a journalism major and campus correspondent for Broward College. Originally from Guayaquil, Ecuador, she immigrated to the United States when she was twelve years old and continued her education in the sunny, politically contradictory, swamp state of Florida. She has since been published by both her college newspaper and the online grassroots journalism publication Rise Miami News. A fan of literature since age 6, she's an enthusiast of language and making her opinion known, while still hearing out the other side and keeping an open mind for growth.