Restoring Health and Well-being to Wounded Service Military Men and Women

There is a great need to care for our disabled service people who have sacrificed much in an effort to defend freedom in the world. Physical, mental and spiritual healing can take place in various ways. Medical experience has shown that physical recovery can be speeded and enhanced if one’s mind and spirit are actively engaged in meaningful projects. Medicine has also learned that helping others in constructive ways is a most effective way to attain personal satisfaction, restore confidence, and make oneself again feel needed and useful.

We believe that those who have suffered the trauma of warfare, like our service personnel, can help restore their health and well-being by aiding other victims of conflict. Especially deserving of help are children whose families have been scarred and destroyed by war. The program we offered a few years ago towards this goal in cooperation with U.S. military hospitals, especially Walter Reed Army Medical Center in Washington DC and its Chaplain’s Office, did not take off well. Difficulties were in identifying beneficiaries and lack of support in DC.  At the end of 2007, to move forward, we worked on an elementary school project in Iraq that a US soldier had identified in Sadiyah. School had no pens, paper and basic supplies. MMP-MC started working with the mother of the US soldier to try and make this project a reality. The soldier's mother motivated the children of a school in Bethesda to collect money, and she was able to send close to $2,000 to her son to start helping these Iraqi school children beginning 2008. Unfortunately, circumstances in Iraq did not permit us to continue the operation during the year with a matching donation of $2,000 from the Charity.

We have now reallocated these funds to help with resume building 12 wounded soldiers looking for a job as a stepping stone to rebuild with dignity and hope their lives in the US. We do this in partnership with the Wounded Warrior Project and with the guidance from a former military officer in DC, Ryan, who lost two limbs in Iraq, survived the ordeal and courageously succeeded in his transition to a normal working and family life. The purpose here is to help educating wounded Service men and women so that they find a job as part of their difficult transition into civilian life. MMP-MC donated $2,000 in January 2009 for this action and plans to continue it with your new donations.

In the “Little Flower” project, our wounded veterans --and we must first listen to them--could also if they want connect directly with war orphans in Bosnia-Herzegovina, Afghanistan, Iraq and USA. The aim is to mutually rebuild lives, those of American service people and of young victims abroad and at home. Specific program activities are under preparation, and may include material assistance to overseas orphanages, correspondence and visits, and educational support to individual orphans abroad or at home. If we are successful in receiving some support of people who care, interested veterans will be able to participate at no cost for them in this part of the program.

“Little Flower” is also a gift of love from America through benefactors who wish to bring comfort and inner peace to our wounded veterans and their families and to help orphans of all faiths. Volunteer team members include Ambassador Harry; former Air Force Captain and Medical Corps Army Colonel Williams; Doctor Marcos; Former Platoon Leader Ryan,  and Claudine and Bernard, MMP-MC’s Directors. Benefactors are welcome. Thank you for being there when we need you the most.

Mary Mother of Peace-MC is a 501 (c) 3 tax-exempt, faith-driven non-profit charitable  organization. For Secure Donations Online, Click Make a Gift Online

“NURTURE PEACE LIKE A FLOWER WHICH IS IN NEED OF WATER, TENDERNESS AND LIGHT”