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 <img src="https://media.eaglewebservices.com/public/2020/4/1586450706218.jpeg" alt="Volunteers have been writing encouraging notes to healthcare workers. Photo courtesy Mosaic Life Care Foundation." />
 <figcaption>Volunteers have been writing encouraging notes to healthcare workers. Photo courtesy Mosaic Life Care Foundation.</figcaption>
 </figure>by Sarah ThomackSt. Joseph PostSupporting area healthcare workers can be done from home through writing, sewing or donating.Mosaic Life Care Foundation President Julie Gaddie says the Heroes in Healthcare Recognition Fund was created in response to many people asking how they could support caregivers.“The Foundation created a fund to provide funding for our caregivers on the front line to provide snacks and meals and essential items to them as they’re working very long hours to serve our communities,” Gaddie says.Other ways people have been helping include sewing and donating face masks and Gaddie says through the Mosaic Auxiliary, volunteers sent 4,500 handwritten notes to caregivers in St. Joseph, Maryville and Albany.<figure>
 <img src="https://media.eaglewebservices.com/public/2020/4/1586451769118.jpeg" alt="A program coordinated through the DeKalb and Clinton County Extension Service provides fabric for making masks to donate to area nursing homes and hospitals. Photo courtesy Yvonne Thomack." />
 <figcaption>A program coordinated through the DeKalb and Clinton County Extension Service provides fabric for making masks to donate to area nursing homes and hospitals. Photo courtesy Yvonne Thomack.</figcaption>
 </figure>“It’s very special to our caregivers to know that the community is thinking about them and that they’re here to support them,” Gaddie says.For drop off locations for notes and face masks and other opportunities to help, go to the Mosaic Life Care Foundation's website at <a href="https://www.mlcfoundation.com/covid-19/">mlcfoundation.com</a>.

Volunteers sewing, writing and donating to help healthcare workers