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Alltech is doing a good deed in China that ought to be recognized.

The international animal feed company based in Nicholasville is sponsoring part of the reconstruction of an elementary school that was destroyed by an earthquake on May 12.

The Xiang-E Elementary collapsed, killing more than 370 teachers and students.

Alltech is joining with the Kentucky Chinese American Association and the Sichuan Earthquake Relief Fund to provide the school with $100,000 for a rainwater collection system, a library and three special classrooms dedicated to music, art, and nature respectively.

The classrooms will be named in honor of Kentucky.

“As friends from across the world, we consider it a privilege to participate in creating a brighter future for these children,” says Pearse Lyons, president and founder of Alltech.

Earlier, Alltech raised money for a middle school classroom in Mianyang City, China.

Kentucky knows the company as the title sponsor of the Alltech FEI World Equestrian Games in 2010.

China will know Alltech as a Kentucky company that does more than talk about improving education.

 

 

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