More than 580 sets of residence hall furniture from Wake Forest University will be donated to help families and communities of several Eastern North Carolina towns devastated by flooding caused by Hurricane Floyd. Wake Forest employees, along with volunteers from area churches, businesses and the North Carolina Baptist Men of the Baptist State Convention, will begin moving bunk beds, wall mirrors, dressers and student desks with bookcase hutches on May 16 into tractor-trailers for transport to a distribution warehouse in Grifton, south of Greenville. The furniture was scheduled to be replaced this summer. Several area businesses donated the trucks and trailers to move the furniture to the Baptist State Convention warehouse.
People are still in very bad shape from the flooding, even now.
Removing the furniture from the residence halls is expected to take three to four days. The items will then be taken to the warehouse in Grifton, where eligible families from surrounding communities can come in and select items that they need. Some of the student desks are expected to be sent to schools damaged by the floods for use in classrooms. Michael Logan, a purchasing officer at Wake Forest, got the ball rolling for donation of the furniture more than two months ago. The idea to donate it to flood victims in the eastern part of the state came about after hearing a guest pastor at my church speak about the devastation in that area.