YEAR IN REVIEW 2015 Our mission is to achieve the best reintegrated generation of serving and ex-serving men and women in Australia’s history. Since Vietnam, we have not truly applied the difficult lessons learned after our veterans returned home. Following years of limited community support to assist service men and women with their reintegration in to life after their service, Soldier On was the first Australian organisation CONTENTS to stand up and support our contemporary veterans. Thousands How we help 4 will be affected over their lifetime A message from the Chairman 6 by the physical and psychological effects of war and currently no other A word from the CEO 8 organisation provides a one-stop- The Soldier On Network 10 shop support, or allows the Australian public to play a role in supporting The Road to Recovery 12 them and their families. Volunteer Program 22 Soldier On does this because it’s the right thing to do. We will not Director’s Report 2014/15 24 stand idly by as our veterans Those who made it possible 36 find themselves homeless; while families are being torn apart by the Fundraising Highlights 48 difficulties they face every day due Our Fundraising Heros 50 to physically and psychologically wounded loved ones; or while men We want your feedback! Let us know what you think about and women as young as twenty Soldier On, what we do and how we do it! Get in touch via take their own lives, believing it is
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