Thank You for Supporting Aleethia’s Programs….

Executive Director’s Message ...by Hal Koster

YOUR Generosity in 2015 … Helped us to provide immediate & direct assistance to wounded/injured/ill service members and their families:

$ 24,624 Direct Financial Assistance for Service Members $ 21,345 Local Restaurant Program “Dine Out on Aleethia” $ 19,894 Assistive Technology $ 5,395 Gift Cards (gasoline/clothing/groceries and more) $ 17,851 Travel/Transportation (air/taxi/buses/parking etc. $ 5,085 Car Repairs for Service Members $ 8,501 Gifts—Service Members’ New Baby/New Home, etc. $ 30,025 Hyperbaric Therapy for Service Members $ 6,000 Transition Expenses $ 5,500 Moving Expenses $ 77,710 22 Friday Night Dinners $ 98,300 21 Donated Friday Night Dinners

Walter Reed National Military Medical Center continues to be an outstanding health care facility and remains busy with patients that come from all over the world. Aleethia’s programs are designed to reduce stress and isolation, nurtured family rela-tionships, increase independence, bridge the gaps and much more. This all helps with the healing process.

Your support of Aleethia’s programs makes it possible for us to continue supporting these deserving service members and their immediate families. Your method of giv-ing preserves the dignity of the service members so they do not have to parade in front of a camera or attend fund raisers in order to get the support they need and de-serve.

In 2015, we added Hyperbaric Oxygen Therapy (HBOT) to our list of services. This provides help for the medical issues some of these service members are experiencing. At Bethesda Hyperbaric, the doctors evaluate the patients to see if HBOT will help. If the doctors decide it will help, they write the prescription and begin the therapy (called dives). Basically this puts the patient in an enclosed chamber, supplies oxygen up to 100% and puts the patient under pressure up to three atmospheres. The doctor decides how much oxygen and what pressure to use and a chamber technician han-dles the implementation of the doctor’s prescription. Each dive is one hour long and the therapy protocols for mTraumatic Brain Injury (mTBI) is usually 40 dives (therapy sessions). They usually do one dive per day for 40 days. We have seen remarkable results from this therapy.

However, it is relatively expensive. The dives plus evaluation by the doctors for the underlying causes can cost $8,000 to $10,000 per service member. We are actively looking for people to sponsor a service member with their needs for dives. If you or your friends can help in any way it would be greatly appreciated.

Thank you for your years of continued support!

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Gift Cards—CVS,

iTunes, Gasoline,

Target, Amazon,

Giant, Chili’s,

Livescribe Smartpen

3 2GB Wi-Fi for

Traumatic Brain

Injury & PTS pa-

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$10+ GIFT CARDS

Subway, Dunkin

Donuts & Wendy’s

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Aleethia’s

INDIVIDUAL Donors

William Grant USA

American Legion/OCW

Mike & Kathy Basler

American Legion Post 41

American Legion Post 8

Capitol Hill Club

Caruthers/Tramonte

Families

Fairfax Elks Club #2188

Walter Reed Society

Smithers Patriot Fnd.

Dan & Michele Creedon

Lido Civic Club of DC

Metro Bethesda Rotary

Veterans of Foreign Wars

SportClips

Washington Golf &

Country Club Members

SUMMER 2016 4401A Connecticut Ave. NW #264 Washington DC 20008 202-714-0135 www.aleethia.org

The “Dine Out on Aleethia” program which started a few years ago and continues to be very popular with the staff at Walter Reed National Military Medical Center/NICoE. The WRNMMC/NICoE staff is very caring and appreciates being able to offer a service member and their spouse an evening of relaxation between hard days of therapy and recovery. “We, staff members love the “Dine Out with Aleethia” program … “NICoE service members have expressed sincere gratitude for the dinners. They praise the excellent food, service and ambiance of the restaurants.” The staff told us of a service member and his family of four who were “stuck” on base over a holiday weekend and were given a “Dine Out” card

and commented they “had a wonderful time…it made being away from home much more bearable.” We have re-ceived so many comments regarding Aleethia’s program; such as, “it was great to enjoy an evening out after such a stressful day...” and “we were able to enjoy a memorable evening with visiting family away from the hospital…” and so much more. The cards give the staff an opportunity to say “I CARE” in a way that is different than what a patient is accustom to hearing. This special part of patient care means a lot to the patient and the clinician.

YOUR continued support of this program is greatly appreciated.

Executive Director, Hal Koster sends a special thank you to all the wonderful volunteers, donors and sponsors who make The Aleethia Foundation’s “Friday Night Dinners” a special and memorable evening for our injured service members.

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We are beginning the 7th year partnership with William Grant & Sons in a charitable promotion to benefit Aleethia’s programs supporting the wounded/injured/ill ser-vice members and their families. During the months of June thru August 31, 2016, a donation will be made to the Aleethia Foundation for every bottle of Sailor Jerry Spiced Rum sold by their participating USA distributors in Maryland, Virginia, Washington DC, Alabama, Indiana, Kentucky, Louisiana, Nebraska, New Mexico, North Carolina, North Dakota, Ohio, Oklahoma, South Carolina, South Dakota, Ten-nessee and Texas

SO SPREAD THE WORD!!! BUY A BOTTLE … BUY A CASE OF SAILOR JERRY SPICED RUM AND SUPPORT ALEETHIA’S PROGRAMS IN PROVIDING DIRECT AND

IMMEDIATE ASSISTANCE TO THE WOUNDED/INJURED/ILL SERVICE MEMBERS.

Drink Up!!! … and SUPPORT THE TROOPS!!

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BATTLE OF THE STATES! William Grant & Sons & Participating USA Distributors’ “Sailor Jerry Spiced Rum”

2016 PROGRAM

Thank You to Recent Corporate & Organization Donors of Aleethia’s Programs: