AmeriCorps offers rewarding work, benefits community
At 69 years old, Lida Mariotti found what she said was the most rewarding work experience of her life.
It came several years after her retirement, but Mariotti, now 73, is about to close out her fourth and final year as an AmeriCorps member at the nonprofit Suit Yourself, where she has worked 20 hours a week at 325 New Castle Road supplying clothing to people in need.
“This has been probably the most rewarding thing I have done in my whole career,” Mariotti said. “We help so many people. We help the veterans, the homeless. We help people who go through a fire and lose everything.”
Mariotti is one of the 23 AmeriCorps members working through the Family Service Corps of Butler Memorial Hospital, which became an AmeriCorps organization in 1996.
AmeriCorps was formed as the government agency for national and community service in 1993, and spread throughout the country through different agencies that appoint members to community positions, according to the AmeriCorps’ website.
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