Dear Angels and Friends,
Welcome to “Angel-Eye View,” our new weekly email designed to keep you informed on Angel projects and events, and to offer you more opportunities for involvement and feedback!
Throughout June, we’ve been kicking off 6 Months of Christmas—for the next six months we’re working hard to put together a great holiday care package for each deployed hero this December, focusing on a different aspect of the care packages each month. As the drawdowns continue in Iraq and Afghanistan, Soldiers’, Sailors, Airmen, Marines and Coast Guardsmen are living in much more austere conditions and counting on care packages from the homefront more than ever. A great Holiday Care Package will be a big morale boost!
This month the 6 Months of Christmas focus is socks. Believe it or not, a nice clean pair of new socks is a welcome luxury for deployed service members, especially in remote areas where they don’t have access to laundry facilities and are walking many miles a day. Colors needed include white, tan or khaki made of 100% cotton/wool (specialty sport/hiking/tactical socks in these colors are also greatly appreciated). Whether 1 pair or 100 pairs, every package of socks will bring a smile to a deployed hero this Holiday Season!
For more details, including shipping instructions, please click here or visit www.soldiersangels.org and click on “6 Months of Christmas - Sock Month.”
Coming much sooner than Christmas, the Project Valour-IT online fundraising competition to help Soldiers’ Angels provide more voice-activated laptops and other adaptive technology to support wounded veterans runs July 1-14. Your help is needed to email friends, share flyers in your community, and rally people to pick their favorite teams! To get involved, please email tcoverride@gmail.com or join the Valour-IT Google Group (www.groups.google.com/group/valour-it). Keep your eyes peeled for the kickoff!
Both these projects are huge, but Angel volunteers have proven over and over again that when we band together, amazing things happen. Whether it’s sending a pair of socks or simply putting up a Valour-IT flyer at work, each Angel can impact a hero’s life!
Wingtip-to-wingtip,
Soldiers’ Angels
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