{"id":57942,"date":"2017-10-26T16:41:00","date_gmt":"2017-10-26T16:27:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hispanicprwire.com\/english-wounded-warrior-project-helps-veterans-in-puerto-rico\/"},"modified":"2017-10-26T16:44:02","modified_gmt":"2017-10-26T20:44:02","slug":"wounded-warrior-project-ayuda-a-veteranos-en-puerto-rico","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hispanicprwire.com\/en\/wounded-warrior-project-ayuda-a-veteranos-en-puerto-rico\/","title":{"rendered":"Wounded Warrior Project Helps Veterans in Puerto Rico"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<style type=\"text\/css\"><![CDATA[\n\/* Style Definitions *\/\nspan.prnews_span\n{\nfont-size:8pt;\nfont-family:\"Arial\";\ncolor:black;\n}\na.prnews_a\n{\ncolor:blue;\n}\nli.prnews_li\n{\nfont-size:8pt;\nfont-family:\"Arial\";\ncolor:black;\n}\np.prnews_p\n{\nfont-size:0.62em;\nfont-family:\"Arial\";\ncolor:black;\nmargin:0in;\n}\n]]><\/style>\n<div class=\"xn-content\">\n<p><span class=\"xn-location\">SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico<\/span>, <span class=\"xn-chron\">Oct. 26, 2017<\/span> \/PRNewswire-HISPANIC PR WIRE\/ &#8212;\u00a0Hurricane Maria roared ashore in <span class=\"xn-location\">Puerto Rico<\/span> on the morning of <span class=\"xn-chron\">Wednesday, Sept. 20<\/span>. The powerful storm packed sustained winds of more than 150 mph, whipping through an island nation already impacted by another hurricane just weeks earlier.<\/p>\n<p>Photo &#8211; <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/mma.prnewswire.com\/media\/591283\/Wounded_Warrior_Project_Puerto_Rico.jpg\" rel=\"nofollow\">https:\/\/mma.prnewswire.com\/media\/591283\/Wounded_Warrior_Project_Puerto_Rico.jpg<\/a> <\/p>\n<p>As the sun rose, the island of more than 3 million people \u2013 including about 75,000 veterans \u2013 discovered terrible devastation. <span class=\"xn-location\">Puerto Rico&#8217;s<\/span> electric grid was in shambles. More than three weeks after Maria, the utility that provides water to 97 percent of the island struggles to meet demand. <\/p>\n<p><span class=\"xn-location\">Puerto Rico<\/span> veterans have played a significant role in the wars in <span class=\"xn-location\">Afghanistan<\/span> and <span class=\"xn-location\">Iraq<\/span>. More than 700 injured veterans and family members on the island are registered with Wounded Warrior Project<sup>\u00ae<\/sup> (WWP). Like much of <span class=\"xn-location\">Puerto Rico<\/span>, they have all been impacted by the hurricane. <\/p>\n<p>WWP sent staff to the island recently and is focused on sending more people and supplies in coming weeks. Armed with food, water, hygiene kits, and baby formula, WWP staff <span class=\"xn-person\">Jonathan Pruden<\/span> and Helbert Asparillo joined veterans <span class=\"xn-person\">Frankie Perez<\/span> and <span class=\"xn-person\">German Rivera<\/span> on a humanitarian mission. Thanks to the generous donations of the American public, they are able to crisscross the island, targeting small neighborhoods not yet reached by larger agencies.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We have been focused on helping as many people as we can,&#8221; said <span class=\"xn-person\">Jonathan Pruden<\/span>, WWP warrior relations specialist. &#8220;We went to the mountains west of Cayey at the request of the Department of Veterans Affairs to check on an amputee warrior living with post-traumatic stress. We found hundreds of individuals in desperate need of assistance. We helped all we could, veteran or not.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Some of the warriors they reached need electricity to power health-aid equipment like CPAP machines and breathing devices. WWP is now sending generators to the island. <\/p>\n<p>WWP is working closely with the Department of Veterans Affairs, FEMA, and other agencies and nonprofits to ensure assistance reaches as many Puerto Ricans as possible. <\/p>\n<p>In more populated areas where electricity is available, that means providing food, water, and gift cards to purchase supplies.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We are reaching warriors across the island, but more help is needed,&#8221; Jonathan said. <\/p>\n<p><b>About Wounded Warrior Project<\/b><br \/>Wounded Warrior Project<sup>\u00ae<\/sup> (WWP) connects, serves, and empowers wounded warriors. Read more at <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/newsroom.woundedwarriorproject.org\/about-us\" rel=\"nofollow\">http:\/\/newsroom.woundedwarriorproject.org\/about-us<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>SOURCE  Wounded Warrior Project<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p> <\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div class=\"xn-content\">\n<p><span class=\"xn-location\">SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico<\/span>, <span class=\"xn-chron\">Oct. 26, 2017<\/span> \/PRNewswire-HISPANIC PR WIRE\/ &#8212;\u00a0Hurricane Maria roared ashore in <span class=\"xn-location\">Puerto Rico<\/span> on the morning of <span class=\"xn-chron\">Wednesday, Sept. 20<\/span>. The powerful storm packed sustained winds of more than 150 mph, whipping through an island nation already impacted by another hurricane just weeks earlier.<\/p>\n<p>Photo &#8211; &lt;a target=&quot;_blank&quot; href=&quot;https:\/\/mma.prnewswire.com\/media\/591283\/Wounded_Warrior_Project_Puerto_Rico.jpg&quot;&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-57942","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-interes-humano"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hispanicprwire.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57942","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/hispanicprwire.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/hispanicprwire.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hispanicprwire.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hispanicprwire.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=57942"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/hispanicprwire.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57942\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hispanicprwire.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=57942"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hispanicprwire.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=57942"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hispanicprwire.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=57942"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}