Howard University requested the removal of 315 sets of dormitory furniture from a total of approximately 200 rooms scattered among eight different dormitories. Separately, Howard requested removal of some 700 mattresses from a different set of rooms. In order to empty, refresh, and re-fill the rooms with new furnishings, Howard had only a four-day window to complete the project.

With an 11-man crew, IRN and Olympia Moving filled nine trailers with the dorm furnishings, which were sent through IRN partner Food for the Poor to recipients in Guatemala and El Salvador. An additional trailer of dorm furnishings was provided to a school for disadvantaged children in Rhode Island. Three trailers containing 681 mattresses were provided to villages in Nicaragua.

Howard has a compact urban campus surrounded by residential and commercial neighborhoods. Only five of the eight dormitories in the project were located on campus. Two were on residential streets several blocks away, and one was located on commercial streets about a mile from the main campus. No two dorms shared a common access point.