Wake Forest hosts day of service during inauguration week

Wake Forest University students, faculty, staff and alumni volunteered at “kit-packing” events on March 23 in a day of service that coincided with the upcoming presidential inauguration and will benefit local schoolchildren and homeless women.

Around 9 a.m in room 410 in Benson University Center, volunteers filled 800 bags with juice, milk, cereal, protein and applesauce, and 115 bags with apples and oranges. The bags will be donated to the Forsyth Backpack Project, which will give them to students at Cook Literacy Model School.

Shaquayla Person, a budget analyst on the University’s staff, and Wake Forest sophomore Rachel Peterson, a communications major from Scarborough, Maine, volunteered during President Wente’s shift.

“I wanted to lend a helping hand and also thought this would be a good way to meet colleagues,” said Person, who joined the Wake Forest staff last October.

Added Peterson: “This shows we’re not just having an inauguration and a big party, but that we’re also involving the community with these efforts…that get at a greater need.”

Full story on the Wake Forest News website here.