The Home Sweet Home Campaign kicked off their aboriginal "Schools That Care" T-shirt architecture challenge in Gilbert, Arizona this month. This grassroots access is the aboriginal in a alternation of association beat campaigns absorption on architecture acquaintance and adopting funds for war veterans.
Gilbert, AZ -- The Home Sweet Home Campaign kicked off their aboriginal "Schools That Care" T-shirt architecture challenge in Gilbert, Arizona this month. This grassroots access is the aboriginal in a alternation of association beat campaigns absorption on architecture acquaintance and adopting funds for war veterans. The Home Sweet Home Campaign has apprenticed to accession $1 actor dollars for USA Cares, a 501(c)3 alignment who helps column 9/11 aggressive families blade the burdens of account with banking and advancement support. Ask attack architect Beth Ann VanHoose how she will do it, "One city-limits and one T-shirt at a time", is her reply.
Beth Ann was motivated to crop action afterwards hearing, area by piece, one bounded veteran's column Iraq and Afghanistan experience. Tim Little, an Army reservist who has served two tours of duty, Tim begin himself clumsy to acknowledgment to his pre-deployment job, causing added banking accent on himself and his family. His adventure is not clashing the bags of National Guard, Reserve and Active Duty soldiers who accept fought in Operation Iraqi Freedom or Operation Enduring Freedom in Afghanistan.
"It shouldn't be so difficult for our soldiers to acquisition advice and assets while they are accepting evaluated by the VA," says Beth Ann. "This is why I started the Home Sweet Home Campaign, to hopefully accomplish it a little bit easier for the next soldier in need." So alive carefully with Superstition Springs Elementary and Highland High School, over 250 acceptance accept entered the contest. Judges apery abounding walks of life, all with one affair in common, their charge to our country and to abutment our soldiers will be acrimonious the top 3 designs. The board included Ryan Fitzpatrick, NFL Quarterback for the Buffalo Bills and a 2005 Highland High Graduate; Ruth Knowles, admiral of the Arizona Artist Guild; Tim Little, War Veteran and Purple Heart recipient; and Maria Martens, affiliate of the American Gold Star Mothers.
Three winners will be appear on April 28th and their "one of a kind" T-shirt designs will be featured on the Home Sweet Home website at www.OurSoldiers.org. For every T-shirt sold, $5.00 will be donated to USA Cares. According to Kim Moorman, Director of Business Development at non-profit USA Cares, who said, "One of the things I like about what they are accomplishing is that they accommodate a actual artefact to anybody who helps them accession money to abetment aggressive families."
The "Schools That Care" challenge will biking above the country this abatement alive with schools in the states of Washington, Illinois, Kentucky, North Carolina and Georgia. By the end of 2009, the Home Sweet Home website will accept over 20 "one of kind" T-shirts featured on their site.
About the Home Sweet Home Campaign
The Home Sweet Home Campaign is a grassroots access to adopting acquaintance and funds for our column 9/11 war veterans. Partnering with bounded schools, businesses and organizations in key cities above the country the Home Sweet Home attack has apprenticed to accession $1 actor dollars for USA Cares, a 501(c)3 organization. For any acquirement fabricated from the website $5.00 will be donated to USA Cares. To apprentice added about attack and USA Cares, go to www.OurSoldiers.org or acquaintance Beth Ann VanHoose at 618-567-1384.
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