April is PRIDE Spring Cleanup Month in southern and eastern Kentucky. The annual PRIDE Spring Cleanup is an opportunity for both residents and tourists to demonstrate personal responsibility by volunteering to pick up litter along roadsides and local tourist attractions.

PRIDE invites you to join our team of nearly 330,000 volunteers.  Thousands of volunteers are needed every year to clean our vast region’s beautiful scenery and beautify each community’s entrance points. Coordinating such a large campaign requires lots of planning so we invite you to join the planning process beginning in March.

All citizens are encouraged to attend  free Spring Cleanup planning workshops, held in March. PRIDE and local officials present current plans and solicit new ideas. Citizens learn how to plan a Spring Cleanup event in their own neighborhood, Check the PRIDE website for workshop dates and locations nearest you.

Citizens play a vital role in the PRIDE campaign. Over the past 11 years, 326,940  PRIDE volunteers have donated 1,150,629 volunteer hours to ridding southern and eastern Kentucky’s waterways and roadways of 659,065 bags of trash, 188,107 individual appliances and 42,435 tons of appliances and nearly ONE MILLION tires.   Everyone is encouraged to take personal responsibility and volunteer for the PRIDE Spring Cleanup in your community.  Together we can make a difference in our region.

To volunteer in your community contact your local PRIDE Coordinator or call PRIDE toll free at 888-577-4339.