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“NO VETERAN LEFT BEHIND”
“This is our promise, we have fought together, some have died together in battle against Americas enemies, we promise you before God we have stepped on the battlefield of poverty, sickness, disease and homelessness together, and when we step off the battlefield, we promise you, we will LEAVE NO VETERAN BEHIND suffering poverty, sickness, disease or homelessness”.
Accomplishments
VetsUnited and its affiliates continues to rise to the top of Veteran Service Organizations. To read more click the link below.
On The Street
America we have a serious problem in this country when a veteran is not ashamed to ask for spare change or beg for a place to sleep when the shelters are full but they are too proud to ask for help to heal, stop self-medicating themselves to death and do whatever it takes to hold their families together. What's wrong with us? As the media reports more and more on P.T.S.D how is it that the numbers of homeless veterans, attempted suicides and successful suicides goes up instead of down? How is it that with years of covering the veterans of Afghanistan and Iraq, they have not managed to get it into our brains that this nation needs to fully mobilize to help them come back home? Lets help our heroes during this harsh winter season by providing new warm sleeping bags for our homeless Veterans. Our goal is to provide at least 3,000 new sleeping bags in the Miami-Dade County area within the next month. Please help us Make A Wish for a Veteran …Today!
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Make A Wish Veterans, Inc.
A Not-For-Profit 501 (c) 3 Organization
"Helping the homeless and the homeless veterans in particular can be an exciting eye opening experience. Our program combines fun and adventure with stability, education, motivation, training, and employment." said Charles Buford President/CEO
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  11/13/2009
Our Organization has distributed over 500,000 five hundred thousand (lbs) pounds of food over the past two and an half years.
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“WHO WE ARE”
We are Make A Wish Veterans, Inc., and we have a program you “can't refuse.” We consider our organization to be an innovative organization, far from the ordinary. From our inception, in 2007, to the present we have been at the forefront of helping needy veterans and their families. In the past our primary focus had been to feed needy veterans and their families, but that’s not all that we have accomplished. To our credit, we conceived and lobbied Miami-Dade Transit and local governmental officials to create what is known to low income veterans countywide as the Patriot Passport. The Patriot Passport allows South Florida’s financially challenged veterans to ride Miami’s bus and Metrorail system free of charge, 24/7. We have also, at times, teamed with local businesses to provide opportunities such as attending an NFL game, deep sea fishing, and scuba for disabled veterans and we’re just getting started. We are proud to announce that we have expanded our program to extend Nation-Wide for all Veterans and thier families and signifcant others.
Make A wish Veterans, Inc. works with the veteran on a one to one basis to help the veteran procure GI Bill entitlements although the road has not always been easy.
Readers Digest Honors Make A Wish Veterans in its 2009 July issue
In November and December of 2008, a total of (2) homeless veterans were brutally slain as they slept in the streets of Miami and we, along with other veteran support groups, immediately declared South Florida veterans to be in a state of emergency. The untimely deaths of these former U.S. military men was cause enough for Make A Wish Veterans to step onto the battlefield called homelessness. As an organization, we felt that we had a moral obligation to bury these fallen brothers with the dignity that they deserved as former U.S. servicemen. Through close contact with the County Medical Examiner, we found that there were three other unclaimed homeless or indigent veterans in the morgue. When the body of the deceased is left unclaimed, the body is cremated and the remains are put in a paupers grave. Soldiers that have honorably served our country deserve better and should be afforded a dignified burial with military honors, without regard to their financial status at the time of their demise.
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Most veterans and servicemen are under the impression that the government will bear their final expenses, but that is a myth. The truth is that a veteran must be enrolled in the VA Healthcare system, and will receive only $250 toward final expenses, leaving the survivor(s) to pay the remaining balance.
Make A Wish Veterans, Inc., primarily operated out of pocket, took a commitment to bury the five homeless veterans with full military honors. The body of one veteran was shipped to the family of the deceased living in Salt Lake City, Utah, and the remaining four were given a funeral service with full military honors on January 26th, 2009.
Vet-A-Care is administered by The Brotherhood/Sisterhood of American Veterans, LLC. in conjunction with United Consumer Awareness Association (UCAA), and The Hartford Life Insurance Company of New york
To address the problems encountered on this mission we have created several remedies. The first is the establishment of the Homeless Veterans’ Burial Fund, which addresses the funeral costs of homeless veterans that are deceased and whose bodies are unclaimed by family because they can not be either located or able to afford funeral costs. The second remedy is a special life insurance for veterans. This insurance covers the veteran, the spouse, and children. The policy can be upgraded to include health insurance also with nationwide coverage.
For further information please call our office at (786) 472-1913 Monday - Friday from 9:00am - 5:00pm
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