(WGHP) -- Many people in western North Carolina have spent the past month working daily to tear our carpet, lay sheetrock, cut down trees and for some, start from complete scratch. As some businesses start to reopen, there is a new challenge people must face: how can they go back to work if child care facilities haven’t reopened? Creative Village Child Center in Swannanoa is one of the facilities that can’t reopen yet. There’s still a lot of work to do. “Part of our heart is here, and we’re having to kind of fix that,” said Elizabeth “Liz” Dohy, co-director and co-owner of Creative Village Child Center. Tonya Davis is her partner. It takes a village to raise a child. That motto is one Dohy and Davis hold dear.Dohy stood in an empty child care room Tuesday and said it was just too quiet. “There’s a part that’s just not complete,” she said. The children have all been accounted for after Helene, but they aren’t back together yet. The Swannanoa River rose higher than ever before, and it seeped inside CVCC. “The insulation had to be taken out. All the drywall had to be taken out. Everything ... in the rooms had to be taken out. We lost all of our shelves,” Dohy said. In addition to all of their shelves, they lost 70 to 80 percent of their toys and games. The floor has been replaced, but every rug had to go. The whole area is still under a boil water advisory with no word on when it will end. Upstairs, the room usually for preschool-aged kids has become a storage center. “We’ve had people come help with water, ... cleaning supplies,” she said. They created an Amazon wishlist for essentials that parents helped with. Parents are also chipping in to help in other ways. One father is using his experience in construction work. Others are building shelves and gathering supplies. The CVCC teachers are busy, too. "Some of my teachers, and I can’t speak highly enough of them. They have actually come in, and they are helping some of the parents, which is amazing. They have been able to help some of the families that need it and are watching some of the children that need it, allowing some of the families to go back to work," Dohy said. While the teachers and staff try to fill in the gaps in the community as best they can, the physical labor all around them is ongoing. “We got the insulation in. Getting the drywall in, getting new flooring in and figuring out the plan,” Dohy said. Her mantra is the Bible verse on her shirt: “When you go through deep waters, I will be with you.” “It’s an important reminder,” she said. They have a date in mind to reopen: the Monday before Thanksgiving. Dohy says they know their families need them more than ever. “Everybody is trying to pull together, and I just really want us to be there," she said. To truly recover, it will take time and money. Like many others, they never expected their business to flood.  A GoFundMe has been created.