UNC students spending their fall break helping Hurricane Florence victims

Posted Oct 19, 2018
Like thousands of other University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill students this week, these undergraduates could have gone home for Fall break. They could have gone anywhere. But they decided they wanted to go to Robeson County. They chose to go to the heart of the storm zone left devastated by Hurricane Florence. They're spending their fall break giving back. (ABC 11)

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