WEST CHESTER _ A new non-profit furniture bank, one of only three in Pennsylvania, is planned for Chester County and is seeking a warehouse to hold items for those in need across the county.

“I receive calls every day from people who want to make donations, unfortunately we have nowhere to accept, store and distribute to people in need,” said Sheree Richnow, President of Community Warehouse Project of Chester County.”

Each night across America hundreds of thousands of people sleep in places not meant for human habitation, and they live in homes without the basic essential furnishings needed for minimum human existence. Forty percent of that population are children,” according to the Furniture Bank Association of North America.