Staying connected with loved ones is one of the many challenges for US troops stationed abroad. But the United Services Organizations, also known as the USO, is working to help them feel a sense of home away from home.
Support for LAist comes fromThe program provides service members the opportunity to read a book to their children on camera in a quiet area at a USO center. Then the book is signed, packaged and mailed to the child, along with the audio and video recording of the parent reading to them.
“And so it's almost like that loved one is at home with them reading the bedtime story,” said Kurkjian. These services do not exist in a vacuum, however. USO depends on volunteering and donations to keep itself afloat.which the organization hopes to refuel“Along with making a donation, we love to have new volunteers at the USO. We've got 30,000 of them around the world primarily in the United States, and they truly are the heartbeat and the heart and soul of our organization,” Kurkjian said.
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