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Amare Stoudemire teamed up with the Each 1, Teach 1, and the Zee Community Development Foundations to rehabilitate water wells in Sierra Leone
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As a disabled vet, and the product of a broken home, things haven't always been easy for Jeff Powell. But having things difficult has helped him sympathize with others who, like himself, have needed a helping hand from time to time. That sympathy led to a desire to want to do something for others. And that desire is what helped him create, and continues to fuel, his idea of VerifiedSupporter.com, an on line program he hopes will tap into the generosity of the American people to help not just Vets like his-self, but others in need as well. For a membership fee of $29.95 made on the Verified Supporter Web site (www.verifiedsupporter.com), a member will receive an Memorial Day package, Platinum Silver Coated Coffee Mug, T-shirt, a Bottom pin, and A Car Magnet, alone with the rights to use the official Verified Supporter logo on their own Web Site. Powell's thinking is that using the logo, which verifies that the user has donated, thus showing that the donor cares.

These are tough times, says Powell. There are a lot of people who are in need, and people want to do something to help. Their donations will do just that, and they can then use the logo to show others that there are people who are doing something, not just talking about helping, but actually doing something. Hopefully the logo inspires others to donate, too. And so on. We're hoping for a viral phenomenon that will just continue to Rain Down. The donations will go to various Veteran Agencies and Hospitals, as well as other Charities. In fact, the Verified Supporter Web Site links to a long list of other Charitable Organizations. We're not only here just for our own [Veteran's] causes, explains Powell. We want people to come to the site and start thinking about all of the ways they can help, and all of the places they can put their donations. We know the American people are generous in tough times and we just wanted to give them a place to come to, to channel their efforts. The money's out there. We just want to make it easier for it to circulate and find the right spots where it will do the most good, in addition, VerifiedSupporter.com visitors and members can purchase T-shirts, coffee mugs, pens, as well as other such merchandise and apparel, each item with the official Verified Supporter logo. Again, the listed donations will go to various charities, and Powell vowed not to receive on dime from his actions in helping his fellow Americans.Powell also states that even doing this measure of helping in a time of crisis, he may lose his 100% Veteran Pay and Benefits, Powell Say's he felt compelled in doing something since losing everything he every owned. Even though losing everything in a unjust matter, Powell promise to continues pushing forward vowing in going the extra mile, even well beyond the call of duty.

By vowing to Donate well over $800,000,000.00 from all the supporting Online Businesses and the sells of VerifiedSupporter Items. As far as the matters of hardship, Powell saying was one of the strongest that I've every heard. Powell, vowed not only to forgive everyone that brought matters of hardship unto him, as he forgive the person that murdered his Father, he vowed to reach out to those that continue to show matters of hardship, by showing them, that there are ways in coming together during a time of crisis. Powell ended his statement by saying it is forgiving that we are forgiven, and it is a matter of helping that we are helped.

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