ALCOA, Tenn. – When relief efforts began for Hurricane Katrina in 2005, people from all over the nation sent clothes to a crippled New Orleans – an unbelievable avalanche of used clothing.
The Rev. Dave Henderson, Holston’s current disaster-response coordinator, remembers what happened later, when the unrequested clothing became too much for volunteers to sort, clean, distribute or store. Acres of damp, molding, unusable clothing were bulldozed into piles and burned. Read more here
