DISABLED AMERICAN VETERANS
Contact: David
E. Autry FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
DAV National Convention
August 8, 2008
Bally’s Las Vegas Hotel
and Casino
(702) 967-7336
Ford Donations Aid Disabled Veterans
LAS VEGAS — Ford Motor Company will donate $200,000
to purchase eight new vehicles for the Disabled American Veterans (DAV)
Transportation Network and provide $25,000 to the DAV’s youth volunteer scholarship
program.
“The donations continue more than 85
years of cooperation between Ford and the DAV,” DAV National Commander Robert
T. Reynolds said. “Through this close
partnership, the DAV has purchased most of the 2,109 vehicles, worth nearly $43
million, that we have donated to Department of Veterans Affairs medical centers
nationwide since our transportation program began in 1987.” The vehicles are used to take sick and
disabled veterans to VA medical centers and return them safely home. Since 1996, Ford Motor Co. has donated 132vans, worth more than $3 million, to
the DAV Transportation Network.
Ford’s donation of $25,000 to the Jesse
Brown Memorial Youth Scholarship Program helps the DAV provide 12 scholarships
to deserving young men and women who have generously volunteered their time and
compassion to the disabled veterans in their community.
“The recipients of the scholarships
embody the spirit of giving to others,” Commander Reynolds said. “We are very grateful to Ford Motor Company
for its continued support for this DAV program.”
The DAV’s National Director of Voluntary
Services Edward E. Hartman said, “The DAV Transportation Network provides
much-needed services to thousands of veterans.
Our Transportation Network volunteer drivers log millions of miles on
the road each year taking sick and disabled veterans to VA medical center
appointments and returning them home.”
The 1.4 million-member Disabled
American Veterans, a non-profit organization founded in 1920 and chartered by
the U.S. Congress in 1932, represents this nation’s wartime disabled
veterans. It is dedicated to a single
purpose: building better lives for our nation’s disabled veterans and their
families. For more information, visit
the organization’s Web site at www.dav.org.
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