COUNCIL BLUFFS, Iowa (KMTV) — Seven years in the past when Martha completed serving a jail sentence of greater than 5 years, she was on the lookout for a brand new begin.
“I wished to go the place I knew nobody,” she mentioned. “I wanted new buddies, a brand new playground, so I got here to Council Bluffs.”
New Visions Homeless Providers helped her get an house, in addition to a number of different issues.
“I had 10 grocery baggage of clothes, hygiene gadgets, my paperwork and such, and that was it,” she mentioned.
Martha’s house is now totally furnished and it is thanks, largely, to neighborhood donations.
“I used to be capable of obtain cooking utensils, plates, glasses, towels,” she mentioned. “Every thing you want to have in a home that I did not have.
New Visions is certainly one of many nonprofits that settle for donations and works with Share Omaha to attach donors to recipients. Share Omaha presents a one-stop store on-line the place donors can see precisely what native organizations want.
“We simply wish to be certain that [donated] gadgets keep away from the landfill and get to make use of the fullness of their life with new properties and purchasers of our nonprofit members,” mentioned Marjorie Maas of Share Omaha.
Brandy Waller with New Visions mentioned the positioning helps its mission to supply assist and hope.
“It is a tremendous platform,” Waller mentioned. “Plenty of nonprofits are so busy doing the human work that we want different organizations like Share Omaha to have the ability to go on the market and be our voice and inform them what our purchasers want.”
They hope it results in extra constructive tales like Martha’s.
“It is a good feeling,” Martha mentioned. “It makes me really feel very grateful.”
Along with residing at one of many shelter’s house items, Martha additionally volunteers her time to assist others.
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