Volunteers help build relationships, offer new opportunities and build memories for the people Mosaic supports and for themselves. National Volunteer Week is a great opportunity to say Thank You, because they lighten the load and brighten the day for people.
In many locations, the people Mosaic supports enjoy participating in their communities as volunteers. Here are a few of their stories.
Bargain Box started in Beatrice in 1961 with a group of ministers’ wives who felt the residents with IDD in the nearby, then-named Martin Luther Homes didn’t have all they needed; specifically, they wanted to raise money for the residents to buy necessary items the state wouldn’t or couldn’t provide.