ABOUT US
MISSION
Molly's Adopt a Sailor Project, a broad based, collaborative and community initiative to support deployed United States Military Personnel by way of cards, letters, and care packages filled with love, support, and necessities from home.
Molly in her element.
Welcoming Home Those We Support
Welcoming Home Those We Support
Molly's Story
In March of 2008 when Molly's Son graduated from Navy Boot Camp in Great Lakes, IL, he told her that there were guys at Boot Camp that never received any mail, the entire time they were there. She went back to her hometown and ironically, a co-worker had a nephew leaving for Navy Boot Camp and she asked if it was o.k. to write to him. She asked that recruit to pass on letters to recruits not getting any mail. The next thing she knew she had three recruits writing to her. She continued to write and she asked those recruits to pass her information on to other recruits.
She's not quite sure how it happened, but six months later she had 15 recruits she was writing to on a daily basis. She requested help from some of her Navy Mom friends to help with writing letters of encouragement and support. As they were writing to the recruits, they started to think about those sailors that were deployed far from home. Who was telling them how much they are appreciated and supported and how much their sacrifices mean to so many of us, in this great nation. She asked any and every Navy Mom that would listen to her idea.
Molly decided as a group, we could adopt deployed sailors and send them cards and letters of encouragement and support as well as sending a little bit of HOME in every care package they sent. The goal, anything that came from the heart of a Mom or Loved One.
June 2008, the very first project, a birthday present to Molly. No better birthday present than to help our troops. More Moms joined and we've grown to over 600 Navy Moms and loved ones and over 5700 fans on face book representing every state in our wonderful union. We started our website, a twitter account and facebook. We have been able to greet some of our adoptees upon their return. We grow daily. We have received our 501C3 status, so we are a tax deductible organization.
Stay tuned, we are not done yet! Molly's Adopt A Sailor will be here as long as there are troops to support!
