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Community Heroes: ‘The Nobodies' find a way to help hurricane victims

KINGSPORT, Tenn. (WJHL) — Hurricane Helene relief is still needed as families rebuild their lives. There is a group that is helping with recovery that calls themselves 'The Nobodies'. They do work and get supplies to those who need it without public recognition. They invite others to join, saying 'Anybody can be a nobody'. It started as a small group of people joining together to get supplies to people who needed them soon after Hurricane Helene hit the region. Often, they were asked which non-profit organization they belonged to. 'We would call places and try to get into places and get needs met,' member Amber Kitchens said. 'They would ask who we were with because most people are with a group. And we would always say, 'Nobody''. The Nobodies were then born. Amber Kitchens and Lindsey Wilder Nieuwland started collecting items for those who were stuck and finally got word to rescuers. 'At first, we were running off of the (Amazon) wishlist of things that were coming to us,' Wilder Nieuwland said. 'We would just put the word out on social media that we were looking for XYZ, and people would just show up at my house and leave stuff in the driveway. It was really amazing.' Kitchens says there was no hesitation from donors who jumped in to help. 'We saw a need. And we could help. Anything we needed, God placed in our path immediately. So, we couldn't NOT do it. We just saw a need and [had] to pay it forward,' she said. Both women say they are committed to helping for the long haul. 'But I do believe that a lot of that comes from everybody working well together and realizing that the end goal isn't for any of us to be glorified, it's for people to be made whole and for their lives to become stable again,' Wilder Nieuwland said. 'And, it doesn't matter how we get there or who does it or who is standing there when they cross the finish line. It just matters that it gets done.' Not bad for a group of self-labeled 'Nobodies', a group where everybody is somebody. Copyright 2025 Nexstar Media, Inc. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten, or redistributed.