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Project Valour IT: DONATE NOW
Posted by Raven on November 10th, 2005
PROJECT VALOUR-IT
What better way to honor those who have served as Marines on their 230th birthday- than to donate to A GOOD cause!! There’s only a day left, so get moving and donate whatever you can. For the price of that cup of coffee every day in a week, you could make a difference in the life of a wounded Marine!
Shamelessly stealing Kat’s words here…It’s for a good cause; a lot of promoting of PROJECT VALOUR-IT is happening. What is it? I couldn’t find better words:
In the new world of technology, computers are as common as calculators and are force multipliers that everyday citizens use. It’s a tool we use every day to communicate, to inform, to research and to entertain. We express feelings, share ideas, get educations, work, bank, shop on line and download music. For some men and women returning from duty, the ability to use a keyboard and a mouse is greatly hindered or non-existent due to the nature of their wounds. Project Valour IT plans to help alleviate this problem by providing these wounded soldiers, sailors and marines with voice activated laptops.
As a force multiplier, Project Valour IT serves many important roles. The primary role will be as a force multiplier for healing. Wounded men and women return from battle, leaving behind other men and women still serving. They consider these men and women part of their family. When they come to a state side hospital or Landstuhl in Germany, they lose contact with this family. Their other family, mothers, fathers, brothers, sisters, wives and children, can’t be with them 24 hours a day or cannot stay with them while they under go long days of recovery due to family or financial obligations. These two families act as a support base for wounded soldiers who need encouragement to go on, love to lift them up and a few laughs to dispel the darkness of being so greivously wounded. Phone calls are expensive and may not be received. A voice activated laptop can change all that, acting as a force multiplier for the support base that cannot be near.
Soldiers will use this device to write emails, do instant messaging or even talk online, keeping them in touch with far flung friends and family.
As a force multiplier, it will allow wounded soldiers to take care of their financial business and go to school. Both give the soldier back control over his/her life. This sense of control is important after being confined to a hospital bed and room, unable to start a normal routine away from war; a routine that will help the soldier gain back his/her confidence. Confidence can help them believe in themselves and believe that they can do anything even after suffering such injuries greatly improving the rate of healing.
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