Project Report
| Dec 9, 2019
Homeless Veterans Housed In Rehabbed Home
By Lois Healy | CEO/Project Leader
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Living Room
We we received calls on two Veterans that were homeless and were in the need of housinglast month. In an effort to get them housed by Thanksgiving we rushed through the paperwork and got them housed in the fully refurbished home by the day before Thanksgiving and were able to deliver Thanksgiving Dinner to them in their new home. One of the Veterans is 75 and has cancer, the other Veteran is 45 and just got a job with a Supermarket and had been living on the street.
When we bought this house the pool was popped out of the ground and it was infested by bees but we knew that we had to hurry and complete this project so that we could house our Veterans that had become homeless. Both men are loving their new surroundings and we were grateful to be able to house them before the Holidays!
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Kitchen
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Living Room 2
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Patio
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Sep 9, 2019
A Helping Hand
By Lois Healy | Making a Difference
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Happy Veteran
Tony is a disabled Veteran who was struggling to survive, his family needed help taking care of his neices and nephews (2 girls, 2 boys) ages 2-17 their parents were no longer in the picture so Tony decided to step up and apply for custody of these children to give them a better chance at a new life. Tony was able to adopt 3 of the four children, but had forgotten the cost involved with raising children as both of his biological children are grown.
Tony needed help with furniture, clothing, food and just insuring the kids had eveythin they needed to survive, so The Veteran's Assistance fund helped Tony with all of the items for his new children, beds, sheets, towels, furniture, food and presents for Birthdays and school supplies. Being a single parent is never easy but taking on the challenges of being a disabled Veteran and a single parent were at times overwhelming. Tony is one of our Veterans that we help on a regular basis to insure he and the children are doing OK, should he need help with anything we make sure we can find the funds to help. With our help from your donations we are able to help Tony and other Veterans Like him. Thank you for all of your help your donations do make a difference!
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Jun 13, 2019
Veteran's House Saved!
By Lois Healy | CEO
In our day to day operations we see Veterans with many issues, some easy to solve... some not so easy, luckily when donations arrive we are able to use them to help as many Veterans as possible, some are easy, some are not so easy. For example if a Veteran needs food, or clothing or a bill paid (like rent, electric or water bill), those are generally easy and we can counsel them to find ou what caused the issue in the first place and try to make sure it does not happen again, but when bills are higher it sometimes becomes impossible unless the funds are there to help.
About the beginning of May we received a call from a Veteran whose house was about to be sold at Tax Deed Auction in 2 days due to unpaid taxes. He and his wife were frantic as he was unable to make the 3 years worth of tax payments because he had gotten ill and was unable to work, he was referred to us from another Veteran's organization that heard about what we do to help Veterans in need.
We met with the couple and decided to help them save their home based on what the amount was and that we could pay the bill today and save their home the same day. The total tax bill came to $2048.00 but it was worth it to see the smiles on their faces. Unfortunately in our rush to help them we forgot to take a photo for the file, but thanks to The Veteran's Assistance Fund we were able to help another Veteran and his wife stay housed! Thank you for your generous donations we coud not do this fantastic work without your help!
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