Cherokee County Homeless Veterans Program

80th Vehicle donated to Army Afghanistan Veteran

Saturday as part of our Breakfast with Santa Program we were honored to provide our 80th donated Vehicle to an Afghanistan Veteran who has no means of transportation.

This is quite a milestone for our program as we are closing in on our goal to provide 100 donated vehicles to Veterans who either are disabled and cannot afford a vehicle, a Veteran with small children who cannot afford a vehicle or a Homeless Veteran who needs a vehicle to get a job.

We started this program 9 years ago and thanks to our community we have been donated over 115 vehicles to date. Not every vehicle makes it to a Veteran in need, and we sometimes scrap a vehicle if the amount of repair is 40% or higher vs the value of the vehicle. The funds we get from scaping these vehicles goes back into our funds for paying for future repairs.

Of the 80 vehicles that we have donated there are 76 still on the road. This is amazing when you realize that most of the vehicles donated range between 150,000 - 300,000 miles.

We created this program as most other vehicle donation programs use the money from auctions to offset administrative costs and there is no attempt to provide any type of vehicle back to a needy person. We just found another way to do it.

If you are interested in donating a well-loved used vehicle that can change the life of someone, please reach out to us as we are a 501c19 Veteran non-profit and can give you a donation for tax purposes.

I want to thank those that have donated vehicles to our program over these years and this Veteran got his Christmas Wish from Santa and we wish him well.