A woman with a good heart and a job dedicated to helping others, stepped out of her office on a freezing day to deliver blankets to those in need.
The freezing temperatures doesn't steer Laura Nunez away from her mission to deliver blankets to those in need…
"We cannot help everybody, but if I help one family and the family is very happy, I enjoy it," said Laura Nunez, an AmeriCorps member.
With temperatures below freezing, she said many people just aren't leaving home, not even for necessities like blankets.
Nunez said she normally works out of this community center, and she said she had invited people to come and pick up some blankets, but once nobody came over, she decided to reach out to the community and go house by house to deliver those blankets.
Nunez doesn't know the residents of these homes, but through her work with AmeriCorps, she visits with people in the colonias, and helps them during emergencies.
She considers freezing weather an emergency.
The blankets being handed out are all donated, but unfortunately there aren't enough to go around, so those who receive them are very thankful.
"My family was just talking about how much we needed blankets," said Claudia Calvillo who lives in the colonias in Alton.
Calvillo's husband works in roofing and has been out of work for the past couple of days because of the weather, so having to buy their own blankets would have put a hardship on the family of five.
"I'm glad she brought us blankets," said Calvillo.
Nunez believes that acts of kindness are always rewarded, but that's not what she's in this for.
"It's not just a job," she said. "It's something that we work together."
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