内容摘要：. Only four other Americans have received hugely experimental transplants of gene-edited pig organs –

. Only four other Americans have received hugely experimental transplants of gene-edited pig organs –

“The day after the storm, we didn’t even question whether we were going to rebuild,” Banz said, with workers rebuilding the riverfront deck on new cement footers. “We knew right away that we weren’t going to let go.”O’Leary, Banz and others say federal relief has been slow. But volunteers have filled the gaps.

Down the street, Amish workers from Pennsylvania pieced together a mold before pouring a new reinforced foundation for the Broad River Inn, among the oldest businesses in town. The river undermined the back end and obliterated the neighboring miniature golf course.Amish volunteers from Pennsylvania rebuild a deck along the banks of the Broad River in Chimney Rock Village, N.C., on Monday, May 19, 2025. (Shelly McCormack via AP)Amish volunteers from Pennsylvania rebuild a deck along the banks of the Broad River in Chimney Rock Village, N.C., on Monday, May 19, 2025. (Shelly McCormack via AP)

“We definitely could not have done what we’re doing without them, that is for certain,” inn co-owner Kristen Sottile said. “They have brought so much willpower, hope, as well as many other things to our community.”The Amish are working in concert with Spokes of Hope, a Christian nonprofit formed in the aftermath of

Carolinas in September 2018.

Jonathan Graef and his siblings bought the Best View Inn in late 2023 and were halfway through renovations when Helene struck. They’ve been flooded twice since, but the new rafters and framing the Amish workers constructed have held.needs to start at the local level — especially in communities of color that may lack trust in the medical field.

It’s already happening in Brownsville, where the hospital fully reopened in 2022;who lack permanent legal status after their work hours; and in California, where

, who often work on farms or at meatpacking plants.“We’ve learned that we have to go to people, we have to go to where they’re at, they’re not going to come to us,” said Mandip Kaur, the health director of the nonprofit Jakara Movement.