Dolly Parton Donates Over $1 Million To Hurricane Helene Victims

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Dolly Parton

Dolly Parton has donated over $1 million to support those affected by Hurricane Helene.

Parton allocated the money to the Mountain Ways Foundation, a charity focused on providing immediate assistance to the Helene flood victims. She shared the news at an event geared towards funding relief efforts for those impacted by the hurricane. Parton’s east Tennessee businesses are working with her Dollywood Foundation to match her contribution to Mountain Ways through an additional $1 million donation. The Dollywood Parks & Resorts, Dollywood Foundation and Dolly Parton’s Stampede and Pirates Voyage are set to partner with Walmart in providing relief for the Appalachian region.

“This is my home,” Parton said at the event at a Walmart in Newport, Tennessee on Friday (Oct. 4). “This is a time for me to step up again, for all of us to step up and do what we can. Who knew, in our little part of the country here—where I was born and raised, just right down the road—that we would have this kind of devastation? When I look around, I think, ‘These are my mountains, these are my valleys, these are my rivers… these are my people, and this is my home.’ It was devastating, not just because it was my family, because all these people feel like my people. We all feel related, and we are in some sort of way. So it just devastated me just to know that we had to suffer like that.”

Walmart US president and CEO John Furner announced at the same event that the company, as well as Sam’s Club and the Walmart Foundation, would donate $10 million to hurricane relief efforts across affected states.

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