Tom Lawson with Bank of America took food orders from women who live in group home run by the UMAR nonprofit group. |
And also Christmas trees. And pizza. And the Winston-Salem Dash, and laughter, and love.
"We just began simply — going to a baseball game or going to a basketball game or going to a movie or to get ice cream or going to watch the Tanglewood lights — you know, anything that anybody would enjoy if they lived in Winston-Salem," said Tom Lawson, a businessman with Bank of America who had wanted volunteer opportunities. "And what we found was the more that we did things with them, the more committed we became to them. And that wasn't planned, it wasn't strategic, it was just something that we began doing and the next thing we knew, these folks were a part of our lives."
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