The newest need for families who have moved here fleeing hurricane damage in the gulf states is for bookbags and school supplies.
Because of the volume of families still registering, there is still a significant need for gift cards and gift certificates to pay for food, medicine, clothing and gas, officials said.
The school supplies will be necessary as many families who have fled the destruction of Louisiana, Mississippi and Alabama will be staying here for some time and their children will enroll in Fayette County schools.
Both gift cards/certificates and bookbags with school supplies can be dropped off at the offices of the Fayette County Department of Family and Children Services, located just south of the Towne Center Kroger shopping center in Fayetteville on Ga. Highway 85 south.
Some 11 families will be able to move in to their own residences Tuesday thanks to a local church, and that number is expected to increase in coming days.