Did you know that nearly 800 veterans are without a place to call home on any given night of the year in North Carolina? There are a number of reasons for why veteran homelessness is common.

Physical Injuries

When service members return home injured, it is often their families who care for them. But if youre a veteran without a family to return to and are sent away from a hospital following treatment, finding housing and work on your own can feel impossible.

Mental Illness

Life-threatening and traumatizing experiences are the norm of combat and war. When returning home, those experiences have a massive impact on a veterans mental health and emotional well-being. This can make it harder for them to keep a job, maintain relationships, and simply trust themselves.

Lack of Affordable Housing

It is not uncommon for veterans who returned home to find job opportunities that pay much less than they earned during service. Physical injuries and mental illness that limit their ability to find and keep jobs that pay well adds to this challenge.

But there is hope.

Since 2009, supporters like you have provided hope to nearly 600 of our nations heroes through the Maple Court Transitional Housing Program, a 24-apartment veteran support program in Durham, NC. Injured and low-income veterans like Dale Ogborn would have been without a roof over their head and the care they needed to avoid homelessness.

Visit www.voachesapeake.org/dale-ogborn to read Dales story.

Without you, this program cant continue to serve our veterans.

We are in need of $100,000 so that Maple Court can continue to be a safe haven for our veterans. Only you can ensure that 45 men and women each year who put their lives on the line to protect our freedoms can live with the comfort and support they deserve.

To learn more about Maple Court, visit www.voachesapeake.org/hope4vets .