Items donated by West Georgia Technical College faculty, staff and students were delivered last weekend to tornado victims in south Georgia.

A truck from Albany Technical College picked up the donations last Friday morning from WGTC’s sister college, Georgia Northwestern Technical College, in Rome. Three pallets’ worth of donations from WGTC were taken to Albany over the weekend.

Donations from WGTC included cleaning products, canned food items, blankets and many other items.

WGTC President Steve Daniel said he’s proud of the students, faculty and staff members who donated items.

“This was a tragic natural disaster that communities in southern Georgia will be recovering from for quite some time,” Daniel said. “I’m proud of WGTC for stepping up and supporting this cause.”

Daniel said technical colleges across the state were participating in efforts coordinated by Albany Technical College, Southern Regional Technical College and Wiregrass Technical College. All three schools are in areas hardest hit by the January storms.

Forty tornadoes ripped through south and middle Georgia Jan. 21 and 22, according to the National Weather Service — twice the state’s average for a whole year, and the largest two-day tornado outbreak on record. The 27 tornadoes that struck Jan. 21 were also the most recorded on a single day in the state.

The violent storms killed 16 people in Georgia and left behind at least $100 million in property damage.