BEVERLY, MA — Pleasant Street Apartments, a veteran’s supportive housing community managed by Peabody Properties, a full-service real estate and property management firm, was the site of a recent event facilitated by iPods for Wounded Veterans. The organization, based in Wilmington, has brought thousands of electronics and gifts to badly injured members of the U.S. military who served in the Kuwait, Iraq and Afghanistan wars and are now recovering at military hospitals.
iPods for Wounded Veterans graciously included Pleasant Street Apartments in their generous iPods for Wounded Veterans undertaking, even though not all residents are badly injured members of the U.S. military who served in Kuwait, Iraq or Afghanistan. Pleasant Street Apartments residents have served in various U.S. military conflicts, and are formerly homeless veterans or veterans at risk of being homeless.
All residents received new Bose headphones, as well as raffle prizes of branches of service hats, new wireless speakers and earbuds. The Danvers Pop Warner fourth-grade football team raised funds to cover the expenses of the headphones.
This organization has gone to every Veterans Affairs hospital in New England and will have distributed 1,000 Bose headphones to veterans before the end of the year. Paul Cardello coordinates this all for IWV. The organization is volunteer-only; no one is paid to provide these gifts.
Many of the volunteers are veterans themselves.
“We were humbled by this heart-warming event and delighted that our residents enjoyed such a great day,” said Pam Niemi, resident service manager for Peabody Properties/Peabody resident services. “The veterans too were so appreciative and impressed that this organization thought of them and donated so many nice electronics. The support this volunteer organization provides for wounded veterans is outstanding.”
(NOTE: The above press release is from Pleasant Street Apartments and first appeared in the Wilmington Advocate.)
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