Army SSG Robinson Iraq-Deaf School & Medical Clinics

Army Staff Sergeant Charles Robinson serving with the 7th Sustainment Brigade out of Talill Airbase near Nasiriyah, Iraq needs your support to help the local community, particularly with supplies for a School for the Deaf and medical clinics. SSG Robinson wrote to us with the need for school supplies and other educational materials along with medical supplies. The Sergeant is particularly interested in helping the deaf children since he is completely deaf in his right ear. With your generous support of this project, Spirit of America will provide these items and more!

SSG Robinson with Mothers & Girls from the Deaf School

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Original Request

I am SSG Robinson and I work Civilian Military Operations. We refurbish/build schools, water purification units, clinics/hospitals, and we give Iraqi's training in the Business and Medical Fields; and we also do school drops. We work in southern Iraq out of Tallil Airbase near the City of Nasiriyah. We cover three provinces; being Mayson, Dhi Qar, and Muthana. We used to cover Diwaniya province, but they now fall under a different group. The school sizes vary and can be as few as 40 students and as much as 300 students. We cover such wide area that any supplies that you send us will be used - we literally have hundreds of schools. We work with the State Departments PRTs. Attached are photo's from a Recon that we did just today. This is a School for Deaf Kids in a town located in northern Muthana Provence. Shown here are the girls and their parents. Besides the 15 girls that will be enrolled in school this year, they also have 29 boys. We met with their parents today to get their approval to bring the kids down to our base (with the parents) to have their hearing tested to see if hearing aids can help any of them. The idea is that if some of them can be helped with hearing aids then the Muthana PRT will buy them the hearing aids and a bunch of batteries. We will do the 15 girls first and then split the boys in half and do them next in two different groups. This is one of the school drops that we will be doing. One of our other projects is building a new school that should be completed by 6NOV08. This school will house approximately 60 students and is in the Dhi Qar Provence. We have also been working on building 150 new school desks and will be delivering them to a schools in Muthana Provence and will be doing a school drop for those. We have more schools out there than we have school supplies and that is the only thing that is holding us back.

 
Iraqi girls attending school for the deaf Anything that you send will be used and will allow us to reach more schools. In the the two group photographs - I am the soldier kneeling down on the right hand side of the photo as you look at it. The soldier standing above me is my boss, MAJ Hudson, and on the left hand side you will see Wayne and Aaron from the State Department. The back row are the mothers, and the rest are the deaf girls from the school. This particular school is of special interest to me because I am completely deaf on my right side. I will send you some other pictures as well. We go out for a quality and control check on the new school later this week and I will send you pictures from that. We will also be handing out a couple of wheelchairs to two kids this week if you would like pictures of that. :-) Thanks for any help that you may be able to provide. SSG Charles Wayne Robinson 2nd email referencing the clinics

SSG Robinson and members of his unit visit clinic staff We rolled out and gave Humanitarian Aid at several sites and ended our mission at a local Medical Clinic where we gave them additional medical supplies and wheel chairs for two crippled children. Also in the pictures are four benches that our unit (7th Sustainment Brigade) built and donated to the clinic during a medical engagement back in July where American, Romanian, and Iraqi Doctors treated over 185 patients. These are just some of the missions that we do here.

 SSG Robinson

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