LP employee provides ‘Random Acts’ in Louisiana
LP Building Solutions employee and Louisiana resident Kip Faulk recently started a volunteer group, Random Acts of SmartSide, to recruit fellow building industry professionals to lend a hand to victims and responders of Hurricane Laura.
What started off for Faulk as a 24-hour shift of handing out food and coffee to overnight volunteers has now led to him leading his group in a multitude of community projects—both big and small—providing every kind of assistance needed throughout areas affected.
A week after providing food to overnight shift first responders, Faulk organized a group to serve 500 meals in a building material retailer parking lot in Alexandria, La.
He next gathered together a handful of nonprofit organizations to provide supplies for those affected in the lower-income areas of Lake Charles, La.
Faulk and his dedicated group of volunteers didn’t stop there. Since the start of the group, they have taken on many other efforts to rebuild their community:
- Built a wheelchair-accessible ramp for a family member of a lumberyard worker
- Built a butterfly garden out of recycled wood for Acadiana Homeschoolers Facility
- Pressure-washed a wooden pier for a handicapped veteran
- Repaired fencing damaged by Hurricane Laura at Sacred Heart Church in Broussard, Louisiana
- Organized a cleaning and hygiene supply drive in Lake Charles, Louisiana with PERC Development
- Re-sided the dugouts with LP SmartSide siding for the Kaplan Youth Baseball Organization
With the encouragement of his teammates, Faulk said he is proud to have brought LP’s brand to a new level in Louisiana—one of trust, hope and humanity.