Gene Pierce, Chairman of the Board of Directors of the non-profit Southern Wake Faith Community in Action (second from left) receives checks from three Fuquay-Varina area business leaders. The business leaders are, from left to right, Gregg Strickland, President of Patriot State Bank, Dr. Robert L. Johnson of Johnson Optometric Associates, P.A., and Wayne Carver, General Manager of Stephens. These local business leaders responded generously to a donation campaign initiated this month by the SWFCA Board of Directors.

SWFCA helps residents of Fuquay-Varina and Willow Spring who have household financial emergencies. SWFCA itself has been hard hit this year trying to handle an increased number of emergency financial requests by needy area families.

So far in 2009 SWFCA has helped over 260 families with emergency financial assistance, almost the same amount of aid delivered during the past two years combined. SWFCA has been in Fuquay-Varina for many years and was formerly known as Fuquay Family Aid. Donations by individuals or businesses can be sent to SWFCA, PO Box 1857, Fuquay-Varina, NC, 27526.