Hurray! More Books for Mineral Springs Elementary

Media Coordinator Julia Bitting Reads One of the New Books

 

Thanks to a student at Wake Forest University, students at Mineral Springs Elementary School have another 183 books to choose among in the media center.

The books were provided by Students Helping Students, a nonprofit organization founded by Wake Forest junior Bill Zandi that distributes gently used furnishings and supplies to schools. The organization has helped about 50 schools in Louisiana, Florida, North Carolina and Pennsylvania.

“I think he’s got a great idea,” said Mike Nuckolls, the school counselor at Mineral Springs. “He seems very committed to it.”

The donation to Mineral Springs includes both fiction and nonfiction about such subjects as animals and what people around the world eat. 

“It’s a pretty wide variety," Nuckolls said. "This gives them a lot of access to more subjects.”

Radio station WFDD-FM plans to air a story about the donation on Tuesday, May 29.

 Mineral Springs heard about Students Helping Students from its school partner First Church of God in Christ. 

Zandi founded the organization in the fall of 2005, during his freshman year in high school, after seeing the effects on Hurricane Katrina on schools in New Orleans’ Ninth Ward.