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Wounded Warrior Project Analysis

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Those who have been overseas sometimes can be overlooked. You or a loved one probably know someone who has come home from their time in the military, only to have trouble adjusting back into society. Many soldiers come home, mentally or physically injured, to no job and no support from their families. Here at the Wounded Warrior Project (WWP), we empower injured troops with programs that provide economic opportunity and aid for the body and mind. Through our programs, we hope to raise the most successful and well-adjusted group of wounded service members to date.
The Wounded Warrior Project was started in 2003 by John Melia in Roanoke, Virginia. John was severely wounded in a helicopter crash while serving in Somalia in 1992. John, along with his friends and fellow veterans, all inspired by the stories of the first wounded troops returning from Afghanistan and Iraq decided to assemble backpacks for wounded veterans at two military hospitals. These backpacks contained items like clothing, toiletries, hygiene items, CD players, and playing cards. Wounded Warrior Project continues to provide these packs to warriors and their families while in the hospital. The WWP continued to serve more veterans and grew to a point where in 2005 we established ourselves as a corporation and were granted $2.7 million by the United Spinal …show more content…

We hope to carry out our mission through three main goals. First, we need to raise awareness about the needs of injured service members and ask for the public's help to provide for them. Second, we need to provide wounded warriors with the opportunity to support one another as at team. Lastly, we need to provide programs that directly conform with the needs of service members. With these goals in mind, we set up programs for warriors to truly adjust back into the civilian world and to help them overcome their physical and mental injuries they had suffered

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