HOP collects 820 prom dresses

PROM operation Henryville (HOP) Henryville traveled to distribute prom dresses, hundreds of girls who were victims of the tornadoes, the Henryville and its surroundings.During the weekend, hundreds of girls who are victims of hurricanes in Henryville, Indiana, was one of the reasons to smile.
PROM operation Henryville (HOP), which consists of Glenna and her two daughters Emilee Cheesman Cheesman and Tryon met Marleah dresses almost a month. Friday, April HOP sixth center of learning for life, Henryville, and distributed clothes and other supplies to hundreds of girls from the four schools affected by the storms provided.

HOP has raised a total of 820 dresses to donate to the victims.
"We had a Wisconsin woman who had contacted us earlier this month and met with us on Friday to deliver up to 70 dresses," Glenna said. "Then we had a woman from the northern part of Indiana, who are these 500 wedding  dresses, and girls from Ball State University, gave us clothes for Friday too."
HOP delivered not only clothes but also visited the area around the devastation with my own eyes to see.
(Photo)HOP seen many devastating scenes during his trip to Henryville.Glenna said he knew that the lives of people in Scottsburg and Henryville were changed forever by tragedy, however, were she and her life changed forever girls.
"There is still, obviously," he said. "I took a breath and tears. What made him appreciate how quickly everything can be removed."
Glenna told the Times, Brazil, as it houses completely off their foundations had appeared only the chimneys that are eliminated.
"The trees took off like a bomb exploded," he said. "The coaches were fired confused because they were beaten with baseball bats.
He spoke of the school is completely demolished and a service station "completely removed from the network."
"We saw the houses, as if someone just a sip of her or something totally absorbed him, then he saw only the walls," he said.
Despite the devastation is still visible, HOP a way to bring some joy and excitement in the victim. Glenna reported histories of Brazil, often from the moment of the distribution of clothing.
(Photo)HOP collected over 800 dresses to distribute to girls in Henryville."One girl came in and looked timidly through the clothes," said Glenna. "We showed her several dresses and asked us to take a picture on the phone of her dress. However, his clothes put on hold. Finally asked," did not like any of the clothes? "She cried and said," Oh, yes, I liked it, but I have no money and can not afford. I just wanted to see what you see. I'm not going to match, but I think the images so that I can at least say I had a dress. "
Glenna said the girl's clothing was free.
"She cried and said," Really? "Glenna says." My daughters and I dressed head to toe. Cried all the time. Once we have a dress, do not take if off. I wanted to take home. "
Another story of a girl who came to her and wandered alone, told the Times, Brazil, Glenna.
"My daughter, Marleah went to help her, and she said she knew she had never been in a dress and what to do. She said her grandmother was in the car and told him he could see but not to get a dress because she could not afford, "said Glenna. "We explained that the clothes were free. As a dress, she told us she had no clothes to take with him because he had lost everything and had no money to buy these things. She said that everything had been carried out to buy food for herself and her four brothers. "
HOP makes sure that the girl left with many essential items. You have a girl's grandmother's car and told him there was no charge for clothing. The grandmother was crying and told her granddaughter that she had never seen HOP in a dress, because they could not pay.
"Many of the stories we heard were very similar," Glenna said. "They all, without hope of going to the ball lost. You should only focus on very little time for extras. If we are free to say that in terms of clothes, many of them flying to the door and came up with his fellow kind. "
HOP has not only helped the prom, but she could not use a lot of girls for graduation.
HIP also had 12 wedding dresses there are six of them can give someone in need.
A wedding dress was an older woman who came with her daughters and granddaughters. It was her golden wedding, and she and her husband were planning to renew their wedding vows. Glenna said women who wanted a "real marriage" because when she married did not have the money to organize a wedding.
The couple had originally planned that all children reach their second marriage. The woman wanted to wear the wedding dress that had been her first marriage. However, the tornado destroyed the house where he lived for 50 years and her wedding dress. She had come to see that you meet the HOP wedding dresses.
"I took it and found a new," said Glenna. "She began to mourn. She took a picture of her purse, and I saw the dress she had chosen, was almost identical in style to which she had originally taken 50 years ago. I could not cry. Reserve"
After seven hours searching for the right dress for every girl, HOP still leave about 300 dresses, which come in the shop of one of the students in need of a wedding dress for next year.
"It was an exhausting experience, but it was worth," said Glenna. "Visit to the devastation of Henryville and its surroundings was something we carry with us always," Glenna times Brazil. "My daughters and I were talking the whole trip was amazing, the experience is real to us as mothers and daughters. We talked about how we take things to see and keep things simple for granted."
Glenna said how much they are foreigners in southern Indiana, who welcomed her and her daughters, and all who loved clothes and other donated items ....