Ten-year-old Shane Israel, left, and his brother, Jonathan, 9, sit amid the donations they have collected to help Hurricane Dorian victims in the Bahamas.

People have such big hearts, it is overflowing their home, said brothers Shann and Jonathan Israel.

“We have so much, it's physically piling up in the dining room,” said 10-year-old Shann, an Evans City Middle School fifth-grader, excitedly about the donated goods that filled his house and the home of a family friend. “The drive is going to help our grandparents in the Bahamas in Freeport and the whole island.”

Shann and his 9-year-old brother Jonathan, a Connoquenessing Valley Elementary School fourth-grader, started a supply drive that ran through Wednesday at the Seneca Valley School District to collect donations for Hurricane Dorian victims and their family who live in the Bahamas, said Shannon Israel, their mother.

Hurricane Dorian is the strongest hurricane on record to have hit the Bahamas. The September storm caused extensive flooding that damaged homes and infrastructure on the northwest islands of Abaco and Grand Bahama, as well as widespread power outages.

Shannon Israel's husband Bernard's immediate family, including his mother, father and siblings, live in Freeport.

Freeport is the main city on Grand Bahama, an island in the northwest Bahamas off the Florida coast,

This is an excerpt of a story that appeared in Tuesday's Butler Eagle.