(3BL Media) Norwell, MA - June 27, 2012 - Founders of Cell Phones for Soldiers, Robbie and Brittany Bergquist, announced Wednesday “Helping Heroes Home,” a new initiative designed to provide emergency funds for returning veterans to alleviate communication challenges as well as physical, emotional and assimilation hardships.
Founded in 2004, Cell Phones for Soldiers is a 501(c)(3) non-profit organization that spent its first eight years supplying deployed troops cost-free
According to the unpublished 2011 Bureau of Labor Statistics data, thirty percent of veterans ages 18 to 24 are unemployed; while statistical information from the U.S. Census Bureau indicates that more than 968,000 veterans ages 18 to 64 have been in poverty in the past year. With thousands of servicemen and women returning from active duty, Cell Phones for Soldiers will expand its mission to address the ever-increasing need to provide fast relief in the form of phone service, past-due bill payment, urge
