{"id":84878,"date":"2022-07-20T16:02:44","date_gmt":"2022-07-20T23:02:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.worldvision.org\/?p=84878"},"modified":"2022-07-29T09:44:27","modified_gmt":"2022-07-29T16:44:27","slug":"volunteering-helps-west-virginia-widow-heal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.worldvision.org\/us-work-news-stories\/volunteering-helps-west-virginia-widow-heal","title":{"rendered":"Volunteering helps a West Virginia widow heal"},"content":{"rendered":"<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC \"-\/\/W3C\/\/DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional\/\/EN\" \"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/TR\/REC-html40\/loose.dtd\">\n<html><body><p>Tammy Wells&rsquo; husband, Bruce, retired from his job with PepsiCo when he turned 65 in October 2020. He and Tammy had plans to travel from their home in Elkins, <a href=\"\/us-work-news-stories\/acts-mustard-seed-faith-during-covid-19\">West Virginia<\/a>, the following spring so they could see their grandchildren.<\/p>\n<p>Bruce stayed healthy despite a job in sales, which required him to work around people in the middle of a global pandemic. But just 35 days after he retired, <a href=\"\/disaster-relief-news-stories\/what-is-coronavirus-facts\">COVID-19<\/a> hit him.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;He was never sick a day in his life,&rdquo; says Tammy. &ldquo;He was so afraid of me getting it and passing away.&rdquo; Tammy lives with diabetes and also suffered a stroke three years ago.<\/p>\n<p>After 40 years together, in December 2020, Tammy lost Bruce. She couldn&rsquo;t even say goodbye to him because she had contracted the disease too. The last time she saw him was when she dropped him off at the hospital&rsquo;s emergency room.<\/p>\n<h2>A way to cope<\/h2>\n<p>She struggled with a grief that threatened to overwhelm her. &ldquo;I&rsquo;m just having a hard time dealing with the loss of my husband,&rdquo; she says.<\/p>\n<p>A year after Bruce&rsquo;s passing, Tammy wanted to do something to help with her struggles. Through her church &mdash; Landmark Baptist Church &mdash; in Elkins, she heard that World Vision needed volunteers to help in their Storehouses.<\/p>\n<p>Now Tammy makes a 90-minute round-trip drive to Philippi, West Virginia, to the closest World Vision Storehouse. She dedicates herself to volunteering, spending Tuesday mornings at the warehouse.<\/p>\n<h2>Big contributions<\/h2>\n<figure id=\"attachment_84879\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-84879\" style=\"width: 1280px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-84879 lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/wvusstatic.com\/email\/met3\/spacer.gif\" alt=\"Tammy and Luella both volunteer at World Vision&rsquo;s Appalachia Storehouse each week. Volunteers range from retirees to schoolchildren.\" width=\"1280\" height=\"852\" srcset=\"https:\/\/wvusstatic.com\/www\/uploads\/2022\/07\/D400-2099-012-1280x852.jpg 1280w, https:\/\/wvusstatic.com\/www\/uploads\/2022\/07\/D400-2099-012-1536x1022.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/wvusstatic.com\/www\/uploads\/2022\/07\/D400-2099-012-640x426.jpg 640w, https:\/\/wvusstatic.com\/www\/uploads\/2022\/07\/D400-2099-012-200x133.jpg 200w, https:\/\/wvusstatic.com\/www\/uploads\/2022\/07\/D400-2099-012-360x240.jpg 360w, https:\/\/wvusstatic.com\/www\/uploads\/2022\/07\/D400-2099-012-850x566.jpg 850w, https:\/\/wvusstatic.com\/www\/uploads\/2022\/07\/D400-2099-012-1140x759.jpg 1140w, https:\/\/wvusstatic.com\/www\/uploads\/2022\/07\/D400-2099-012.jpg 1623w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1280px) 100vw, 1280px\" data-src=\"https:\/\/wvusstatic.com\/www\/uploads\/2022\/07\/D400-2099-012-1280x852.jpg\"><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-84879\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Volunteers Tammy Wells (blue shirt) and Luella Saffle sort and pack clothing. &ldquo;I just want to give back,&rdquo; says Tammy. &ldquo;It makes me feel warm inside that I have some kind of part in it.&rdquo; (&copy;2022 World Vision\/photo by Laura Reinhardt)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>World Vision engages local <a href=\"https:\/\/worldvisionvolunteer.volunteerhub.com\/?format=0&amp;filter=%7B%7D#_=_\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">volunteers<\/a> from churches, schools, and corporations. In 2021, more than 1,200 volunteers donated 18,821 hours of their time. They saved World Vision $537,160 in labor costs last year. COVID-19 halted volunteers for most of 2020 and part of 2021, but the need is greater than ever.<\/p>\n<p>In 2021, <a href=\"\/us-work-news-stories\/what-you-need-to-know-world-vision-united-states-work-photos-videos\">World Vision U.S. Programs<\/a> served nearly 12.1 million children and adults and distributed 141,321 pallets of resources. Volunteers play a critical part in preparing those items, which are donated by corporations.<\/p>\n<p>World Vision shares the supplies such as hygiene items, shelf-stable food, school materials, and furniture with churches, community organizations, and schools who then distribute them to the most vulnerable people across the country.<\/p>\n<p>Tammy volunteers mostly boxing up food and household goods, but she does whatever World Vision staff need her to do. She says of the staff, &ldquo;They&rsquo;re extraordinary people.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>She&rsquo;s building community in her weekly visits. &ldquo;I have met friends, friends that I really needed in my life. It&rsquo;s a peaceful place to come to,&rdquo; she says.<\/p>\n<p>Tammy has also recruited some of her long-time friends to come give volunteering at the Storehouse a try.<\/p>\n<p>Her faith helps her find a way through too. &ldquo;Believing in God, I know that I&rsquo;m never alone. I may live alone and be alone a lot of the time, but I know He&rsquo;s got me,&rdquo; she says.<\/p>\n<h2>A connection to something bigger<\/h2>\n<p>But she continues to grieve, and volunteering helps her handle that grief. &ldquo;I get very, very sad. Sometimes life is just hard,&rdquo; she says. &ldquo;When you feel the emptiness and loneliness, then you come here, and you feel like you&rsquo;re doing so much good for people you&rsquo;ll never meet.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>And, she adds on to that thought, &ldquo;When you leave here, you&rsquo;ll leave with a smile knowing that you&rsquo;ve changed a lot of people&rsquo;s lives.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>For Tammy, what started as a way to work through her grief has brought friends and a sense of being connected to something much bigger than herself. Giving of her time has given back to her.<\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tammy Wells lost her husband of 40 years to COVID-19. 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