Rebuilding Together provides Safe at Home kits for veterans
Kits will be distributed Saturday and Sunday at Veterans Day events
Through grants from Wells Fargo and The Home Depot, Rebuilding Together Solano County will provide Safe At Home Kits to veterans, active military and other military families in honor of Veterans Day.
Home health and safety is essential for low-income military, veteran and senior homeowners to remain in their own home safely and with dignity.
The kits will be distributed starting at 10 a.m. Saturday at 555 Santa Clara St., Vallejo in the parking lot behind City Hall. This will coincide with Vallejo's Veterans Day Ceremony, which takes place at 11 a.m. near that venue.
Kits will also be distributed from 11 a.m. to 1 p.m. Sunday at 167 O'Hara Court during the Mare Island Naval Cemetery Veterans Day Ceremony.
“It is very heartwarming that Rebuilding Together Solano County (RTSC) and the workday sponsors (Wells Fargo and Home Depot) and other workday donors can join together to make a lasting and visible difference for more than 1,000 low-income veteran, military and senior homeowners in Solano County,” said Elizabeth Hoffman, executive director, Rebuild Together Solano County. “Wells Fargo has been our backbone during COVID-19 providing RTSC with more than $100,000 to continue our essential programs for low-income residents during this pandemic.”
RTSC's Safe At Home Kit includes: An emergency LED lantern with hand crank and solar charging and cell phone charger, a fire blanket, plug-in night lights, emergency blanket, blanket, emergency whistle, hand sanitizer, hand soap, face masks, a set of trash bags and disaster backpack with emergency information. Each kit is valued at $175.
Other workday donors include: Bank of America, Bank of the West, Costco Vallejo, CSAA, First Bank, Food Bank of Contra Costa / Solano Counties, M & M Sanitation LLC, Mare Island Co, Medic Ambulance, Minuteman Press, Phillips 66, Valero Benicia Refinery, Vallejo Community Presbyterian Church and other community supporters.