ABC Supports Rescue Task Force and the Wounded Troops
 
Build a Backpack Program Delivers Necessities and Comfort Items to Severely Wounded

May 2009 - Rescue Task Force (RTF) is a San Diego County based non-profit relief agency that responds to natural and man-made disasters world-wide. In addition to local military and military family support through their “Happy Hearts for Hurting Heroes” Back Pack program, RTF delivers volunteer medical and dental teams into the jungles villages of Honduras and has constructed three full service medical and dental clinic facilities deep in the jungles of Honduras’ Miskito Coast. RTF also operates fifteen schools for women in Afghanistan.
(used with permission from the Rescue Task Force website)

The ABC Cares Committee and Chair Kim Briggs with Dunamis Systems has partnered with Rescue Task Force to collect donated items and monatary contributions in support of the Backpack Program. Severely wounded troops arriving to Naval Medical Center Balboa and other Military Hospitals throughout the Nation often arrive with only the clothes on their back. Many of the troops have sustained injuries that will impact their lives forever. RTF provides backpacks filled with necessities and comfort items to help to demonstrate that they will never be forgotten.

Program Details

Click here for partnership details and information on how your company can help!

Click here to visit the Rescue Task Force website and to read more about their mission, achievements, and outreach to those with the greatest of needs.

Donated items and contributions can be delivered to the ABC Chapter by July 15. As the fourth of July approaches, Remember the troops and their sacrifice. Give to the Rescue Task Force program.

For additional details, please contact Kim Briggs or Hanna Bederson.