Lippert Donates Products, Supplies to Hurricane Victims – RVBusiness – Breaking RV Industry News
Lippert Components, Inc. in Elkhart, Ind., donated about $10,000 worth of refrigerators, hot water heaters and other needed supplies to hurricane relief efforts in North Carolina recently.
Amy Highland, a director of student services for a non-profit organization shared how she connected with Jason Lippert through LinkedIn. Highland said when Hurricane Helene hit North Carolina destroying about 135,000 homes, she really felt in her heart that she needed to go help. She said displaced residents were being put up in tents and RV’s.
Highland said she had some training in RV tech and repairs, so she fell into the role of helping people get set up in their RV’s and doing easy repairs on the donated RV’s. She said many of the donated RV’s may have been sitting in someone’s backyard and were in good condition but may have had appliances not working properly.
She said she spoke to a friend who mentioned some RV companies were donating parts and materials, so she went on LinkedIn and sent a text to Jason Lippert. She gave him an overview of what was going on in the hurricane relief efforts and he told her to send a list of what they needed, and he’d take care of it.
She said she didn’t want to over-ask so she just asked for the immediate needs and there were storage issues to consider, too. She said the donations, the majority of which were refrigerators and hot water heaters, were all delivered.
Highland, who plans to return in April, said one woman who received a new refrigerator was “overcome with gratitude. I’m not sure Jason grasped how much what he’s done means to them.”
