Painting desks for local students

Student painting a desk

April 23, 2012
by Mark Anderson  |   media@wfu.edu  |   336.758.5237

Several hundred Wake Forest students welcomed about 50 elementary school students to campus earlier this month to paint their very own desk. WFU students started D.E.S.K. (Discovering Education through Student Knowledge) 12 years ago to provide desks to underprivileged children.

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