Kentucky
Electric Co-ops Recognized for International Development Efforts
10 /20/2004
Nine Kentucky consumer-owned electric
cooperatives received awards on October 12 for their support of
programs that help people in developing nations build and maintain
rural electric utility systems.
The awards were presented before an assembly of more than 1,000
electric cooperative officials from South Carolina, Georgia, Alabama,
Mississippi, Tennessee, Florida and Kentucky at the Region II-III
Meeting of the National
Rural Electric Cooperative Association (NRECA) held in Hilton
Head, SC.
When conferring the awards, NRECA Georgia Director Galen Mills said,
“The donations of equipment, materials, labor, money and knowledge
are extremely valuable and I want to add my personal thanks to all
the people who made good things happen. NRECA’s International
Foundation serves as a facilitator of the co-ops’ work and
helps pull resources together. But the work at the co-op is the
real engine that drives the project.”
Since 1962, NRECA members have placed more than 500 rural electric
experts in overseas assignments, helping rural people organize more
than 250 consumer-owned electric cooperatives that bring power to
more than 35 million people. Electric cooperatives can make direct
contributions to this effort by donating funds, volunteer time,
and equipment and materials to the NRECA International Foundation
or by adopting an overseas co-op through the Sister Cooperatives
Program.
NRECA is the national service organization that represents the nation's
more than 900 private, consumer-owned electric cooperatives, which
provide electric service to 37 million people in 47 states.
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