Stars and Stripes
Mideast edition, Friday, December 1, 2006
Officials at Walter Reed Army Medical Center are seeking donations for wounded troops who are forced to leave behind personal belongings when medically evacuated from war zones.
Many of the troops “arrive with nothing,” said officials from the hospital’s Family Assistance Center. Because of the speed with which the most serious wounded are evacuated from Iraq or Afghanistan, their belongings are often left behind and don’t catch up.
So the center is looking for everything from shoes, gloves and winter jackets to postage stamps, prepaid phone cards and razors.
The Family Assistance Center requests that no cash or used items be donated. Among some of the more specialized needs are weightlifting gloves (for use by wheelchair patients); trousers with snaps or zips along the legs; umbrellas; and prepaid gas or grocery cards.
The center also helps patients file claims for personal belongings that were left behind during a medical evacuation. Loss or damage to items can be reimbursed through the system.
Donations can be sent to:
Medical Family Assistance Center
Bldg. 2, 3rd Floor, Room 3E01
6900 Georgia Ave, NW
Washington, DC 20307-5001
More information on the donation programs and the medical center can be found here.
Please note the address above is the correct address which ran in a correction entry in the Stars & Stripes on 3 December.
1 comment:
Hi Laurie, I really appreciate the work you are doing for the troops. I am in Massachusetts and the small organization I work for would like to be involved and help out in some way. If you have any specific areas that you think need more attention (Walter Reed or another element of the soldiersangels.org work), please let me know.
Good luck and thank you again for your efforts,
Susan
sjcavan@bu.edu
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