SAH Mission

10/30/2014

http://dannyvfund.org

Come join us for our first annual 5K road race honoring our hometown hero, US Marine Corps Sergeant Danny Vasselian, as well as all Veterans who have proudly served our country!

04/08/2014

thank you to everyone that came out to our SAH Mission BBQ. here is one of our raffle items. Together we raised almost $8,000 for the mission. Please sign up for our newsletter on our newly designed website, we have more events and will be expanding our mission for other deserving veterans.

http://www.sahmission.org/newsletter.html

03/31/2014

There has been so much bad news lately I wanted to share a great bit of news with you my friends.
For the first time since January 2007, there were no U.S. military deaths in combat in a month (March 2014)

Thank you to our veterans. To our deployed military we love you and hope you come home soon and safe..

03/27/2014

R.I.P. Lieutenant Edward J. Walsh and Firefighter Michael R. Kennedy

03/05/2014

come on out this weekend to support a great cause

02/28/2014

http://sahmission.org/donate.html

Let the word go forth from this time and place, to friend and foe alike, that the torch has been passed to a new generation of Americans - born in this century.

02/27/2014

SAH MISSION
Ensuring Specially Adapted Homes For All Severely Wounded Veterans

sahmission.org

02/19/2014

http://www.youcaring.com/nonprofits/wounded-veteran-sue-downes-lost-home-to-fire-valentines-day-/139416?fb_action_ids=10202671711009682&fb_action_types=og.likes&fb_source=aggregation&fb_aggregation_id=288381481237582

On Valentines day Wounded veteran and double amputee Cpl Sue Downes lost her home in a fire. We plan to give her freedom and independence of a 100% accessible home.

01/16/2014

We petition President Obama to sign an SAH Housing rider under the current TSGLI insurance for all severely wounded veterans. Currently our most severely wounded veterans receive a VA SAH Grant of less than $70,000. Through a non profit I founded I donated more than 100 SAH homes but the need is to…

12/24/2013

Merry Christmas to all. Stay tuned for many important announcements for 2014

11/11/2013

Veterans day comes as our years come to a close. Please find a way to give some time and resources to help veterans organizations finish our years stronger than we had hoped. 2014 is around the corner friends, let's all make it the year of unprecedented accomplishments for those who have sacrificed so much. All of us at SAH Mission would like to thank all of our veterans today and every day.

09/18/2013

Dear friends,

PLEASE READ AND SHARE THIS VERY IMPORTANT MESSAGE..

We know you have liked this page because you don't want to tolerate injustices, certainly against veterans. There is a terrible injustice happening to our severely wounded veterans I want to make you aware of. In 2003 I saw a news piece about a soldier that lost both legs in Iraq. As a builder I knew everything about building homes, handicap accessible being an area I was familiar with. I assumed at that point there was a group building specially adapted homes for severely wounded veterans and went online looking to volunteer. I was shocked to learn there was no group established doing this. To me it was an injustice that I would not let stand. I googled how to start a non profit and founded Homes for our Troops. Ten years later and well over 100 homes donated to severely wounded veterans I am taking on a new mission. Ending the specially adapted housing crisis. You see there are around 3,000 vets that qualify and need these homes and its more than a few non profits can handle and veterans are falling through the cracks. I recently put out the story of Cpl Sue Downs, mom of two, two purple hearts and the loss of both legs in Afghanistan. She lost the home she bought and used her VA specially adapted housing grant of 64,900 on and now lives in a non handicap mobile home. I was outraged and we WILL build her a home. Our goal while doing so is to lobby for a law change. $65,000 grant is an insult to our veterans. They pay for TSGLI which is their Insurance through the military. In 2,005 our government passed a law adding a rider to the Insurance for Traumatic injury benefits up to $100K which increased the monthly premium of $26 a total of $1 making it $27 per month. This money was designed to help them financially for family flights to visit them in hospitals, hotels, paying bills or whatever else they need. Many of these veterans spend 2 or more years in the hospital after suffering these horrible injuries. We are proposing adding an SAH rider to pay these brave wounded warriors enough money to build specially adapted homes. This will end the current problem and ensure all of our most severely wounded veterans get the homes they earned and deserve, more importantly it fixes the problem FOREVER. This needs to be done and WE SHOULD ALL BE OUTRAGED that its not. I know I am! I have testified before Congress twice and as we build Sue a new home I promise that I will continue pushing our government to fix this problem, but I/WE need your help and support. Please like our page and visit our website and get involved in this effort.

Sincerely,
John Gonsalves
Founder SAH Mission
because they deserve nothing less