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Travis Blinded Vet
Review for Blinded Veterans Association, Alexandria, VA, USA
I am a soldier who return from Iraq, blinded and afraid of the hopeless life that I thought only existed for a blind person.
Two years after my injury I got a phone call that changed my life. The BVA had found me and wanted to invite me to a program that gathered new blinded vets together with older blinded vets.
At no cost I flew from the seclusion of the Appalachian mountains to a convention in New Mexico where I met others like me, learned about financial and educational benefits, and about access technology!
I have since moved to California where I am studying Computer Science so that I can help contribute to the access technology that I discovered there!
Thehorrible review below disturbed me so I have performed some research.
The numbers that the annonomous reviewer posted below are no where to be found in the 990 !
http://www.bva.org/form990.pdf
This organization is an organization of Blinded Veterans helping other Blinded Veterans for over 65 years. It is not likely that such numbers could exist when a group of voting board members, all blinded vets, cycles annually and votes on such matters.
In addition to other programs, the BVA payes, at the moment, 8 Blinded Veterans to provide services for Blinded Veterans in their region. The pay of one of these employees alone dramatically contradicts "abcdef's" suggestion that only $15,000 goes to service programs.
This organization has provided me inspiration, guidance, friends, and so much more!
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