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LOUISVILLE, Ky. (WDRB) — A Harrison County elementary school principal has received national recognition for raising money to buy shoes for 200 low-income students. 

Heth-Washington Elementary School has one of the highest poverty levels in the county, at 75 percent. 

“We’ve had several students who have had holes in their shoes, the soles were peeling off, we’ve been using duck tape and staples and tying together shoe strings,” said principal Nissa Ellett. 

But then students started asking to wear the extra shoes in the nurse’s office. 

“When that happened, I was just devastated. I’m like, ‘Oh my gosh, this is so much bigger than I realize,'” Ellett said. 

That prompted Ellett to start a fundraiser to buy a pair of shoes for her 200 students. She hoped to raise $6,300. The response was greater than she could have hoped for.

“In 24 days, we raised $17,000,” Ellett said.