Kids for Our Troops

Kids for Our Troops = Help for our Vets

Introducing Kids for Our Troops!

We know kids of all ages want to get involved in the effort to help and support our American Heroes. Homes for Our Troops has created this website to help parents, children, teachers, students, club leaders and civic organizations find out how they can get involved in our effort to provide specially adapted homes for our most severely wounded soldiers.

How Can You Get Involved?

Here are just a few ideas to help raise awareness and donations for our severely disabled veterans:

• Hold a Fundraiser

Great Fundraiser for Schools This is an easy way to raise money for Homes for Our Troops while getting your whole school involved. We supply the artwork, you supply the containers and the man power! Ask your local stores and businesses to place these cans on their counter, collect the money on a weekly basis or challenge each and every kid in the school to donate and have contests between classes. . Email us if you would like to take part in the School Coin Drive!

• Pass out information at a local event, football game, holiday concert, or church service
• Place Homes for Our Troops flyers in store windows in your town
• Set up a table in front of your local store to take donations, pass out flyers and get volunteers for your effort
• Write letters to your congressman and let them know about our efforts and to ask them to advocate on behalf of Homes for Our Troops to raise awareness about our mission to help our disabled veterans.
• Ask your local businesses to donate building materials, money, or labor to our home building effort.

Read more!

Homes For Our Troops

Group Donates Home to Wounded Soldier

American Forces Press Service | By Donna Miles | April 19, 2006

WASHINGTON - Three years ago, Army Pfc. Sam Ross Jr. was disposing of munitions near Baghdad when an explosion took his eyesight, his left leg, part of his hearing and, ultimately, his military career.

Last month, the former 82nd Airborne Division soldier moved into a custom-built log cabin specially designed and built for his needs, courtesy of "Homes for Our Troops."

"This is my dream, and it's finally under way," the 22-year-old Ross said as his handicapped-accessible log home started taking shape on a hilltop in his native Dunbar, Pa.

Ross used to play on the lot where his new home stands when he was a child. "He wanted to get back to a place he could see in his mind," Kirt Rebello, director of projects and veterans affairs for Homes for Our Troops, told American Forces Press Service.

With corporate and private donations of money, materials and professional labor through the Homes for Our Troops program, Ross' custom home became a reality. He was so excited about it that he moved in even before the kitchen cabinets, with three-dimensional carvings of animals that he can feel, were installed, Rebello said. Read more.