Home Depot Team Builds Outdoor Furniture For Veteran Counseling

New Port Richey FL

09 August, 2021

7:15 PM

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NEW PORT RICHEY, FL — The Home Depot Foundation partnered with Volunteers of Americaof Florida to build 50 chairs and 10 tables for formerly homeless and disabled veteransand their families who have been impacted by the pandemic. Team Depot, The Home Depot's associate volunteer force, worked alongside VOAF building the patio chairs and picnic tables. The furniture will provide outdoor spaces for VOAF staff to provide counseling, job services and case management services to on-site veteran residents. According to the CDC, indoor spaces are more risky than outdoor spaces where it might be harder to keep people apart and there's less ventilation. Therefore, the new outdoor space will help keep staff and VOAF veterans, especially those unvaccinated, safer and healthier. "The furniture will help countless veterans who are enduring the negative effects of theCOVID-19 pandemic. The furniture and new outdoor space will keep both our veterans andVOAF staff safer and healthier. We are extremely grateful to Team Depot for making thatpossible." said Dani DiVittorio of the VOAF. The project took place across 10 local Home Depot stores. The furniture will be dispersed by VOAF teams to VOAF veteran facilities across the state. Giving back to combat-wounded, homeless and senior veterans is personal to The HomeDepot since more than 35,000 of the company's associates are veterans or active-duty military. To date, The Home Depot Foundation has donated more than $375 million to veterans in need– and the foundation is committed to investing half of a billion dollars by 2025.