Fundraising Goal for the Ride Across America
The Children & Adult Mobility Project is seeking to raise $250,000 with its Ride Across America enabling the purchase this year of fifteen (15) Secure Ambulation Modules, a revolutionary new physical therapy product developed through a partnership between NASA Goddard Space Flight Center and Enduro Medical Technology, Inc. These Secure Ambulation Modules (S.A.M.), at a cost of $15,000 each, will be donated to the Department of Defense military hospitals and Veterans Administration Hospitals. They will be used in their physical therapy clinics and physical therapy in-patient units and on appropriate nursing units for the rehabilitation of soldiers injure in IRAQ, Afghanistan. In addition, they will serve veterans and their families who are undergoing treatments where the use of S.A.M. is beneficial.
Ride Across America Update
Honorary Ride Chairman: Wilbur J. Messier, US Marine Corps (1942-45) WWII veteran of Battle for Guadalcanal. Mr. Messier is a resident of Manchester, CT.
Military Ambulation Project: C.A.M.P. seeks to provide the latest revolutionary physical therapy equipment, developed by NASA Goddard Space Flight Center in partnership with Enduro Medical Technology, to severely injured soldiers still arriving almost daily from Iraq & Afghanistan. This equipment is needed immediately by these individual soldiers to allow them to regain the physical well-being that has been taken from them by the ravages of war. Pledges and sponsors for the "Ride Across America" will allow C.A.M.P. to donate S.A.M.s to Bethesda Naval Hospital, and V.A. hospitals across the country including CT, San Francisco, Tampa, Richmond and others based on your support.
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