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A Step Toward Hope Makes Donation to Homes for Our Troops to benefit Paralyzed Iraq Veteran

12/19/07

A Step Toward Hope pledges $5,000 towards the organization Homes for Our Troops, who is constructing a specially adapted home for Cpl. Visnu Gonzalez who was paralyzed in Iraq.

Moorestown, New Jersey (December 19, 2007) – A Step Toward Hope, a 501-C3 charity providing assistance—financial and otherwise—to those suffering with paralysis and other neurological disorders in New Jersey and surrounding areas, has pledged $5,000 to the Homes for Our Troops charity who is building of a specially adapted home for paralyzed Iraq Veteran Corporal Visnu Gonzalez.

On April 21st, 2004, while serving in Iraq, Corporal Visnu Gonzalez was shot by a sniper, severing his spinal cord and causing severe bleeding and near death. Despite surgery to his spinal cord, Cpl. Gonzalez remains paralyzed from the chest down. Homes for Troops, a non-profit organization committed to helping severely injured servicemen and women and their immediate families, has purchased land in New Milford, NJ and aims to build a specially adapted and equipped home for Cpl. Gonzalez. For more information on Homes for Troops and Cpl. Gonzalez, visit: http://www.homesforourtroops.org/site/PageServer?pagename=Cpl_Visnu_Gonz....

“A Step Toward Hope is strongly committed to helping those with paralysis, and is proud to be able to help Cpl. Gonzalez,” says Chris Miles, entrepreneur and founder of A Step Toward Hope. “Our troops selflessly risk their lives to protect our country, and we are glad to be able to do anything we can to help.”

About A Step Toward Hope

Begun as an annual gala to raise money for the paralysis cause, A Step Toward Hope thrived and grew into a standalone 501-C3 charity in 2007, founded by Chris Miles. A Step Toward Hope’s mission is to provide assistance—financial and otherwise—to those suffering with paralysis and other neurological disorders in the southern New Jersey and surrounding areas, and to raise funds for research that aims to discover new treatments and cures for paralysis.

Chris Miles is also the founder and president of Miles Technologies, a leader in business solutions, located in Moorestown, New Jersey.

Further information is available online at www.asteptowardhope.org

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