How You Can Help Wounded Veterans

Want to help heroes and their families get the housing they need? Check out these organizations.

From Reader's Digest

BuildingHomesforHeroes.com brings volunteers together through sports fundraisers. Find local events at its site.

Heroes at Home, repairs and equips old homes to accommodate disabilities.

Homes for Troops builds and donates handicapped-accessible houses nationwide. Visit homesforourtroops.org to create a tribute page, get fundraising ideas, and more.

Homes for Vets gives new houses to families of critically injured ex-soldiers. Nominate beneficiaries and contribute online.

Project H.E.R.O. (Homes Eliminated of Restrictions and Obstacles) works with Rebuilding Together volunteers to identify low-income soldiers, educate communities, and renovate houses.

From Reader's Digest

• Heroes
• Military
• What Matters to Me

• Volunteers Help Repay a Disabled Veteran's Sacrifice
• After an enemy bullet left Staff Sergeant Matt Keil paralyzed, an army of volunteers found a way to repay his sacrifice.
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• Hope Floats
• When a vet finds three Vietnamese orphans living on a raft, it changes his life -- and theirs.
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• A Place in the Sun for War Veterans
• War veterans, wounded in body and mind, have somewhere to go for solace and healing -- a riverbank.
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