A MILITARY charity is helping veterans get used to ‘Civvy Street’ by serving coffee at youth football games.
Veterans charity, Forward Assist, helps servicemen and women with combat experience and unresolved trauma issues, so they can adjust to a new life outside the forces.
It has transformed a Land Rover 101, which served in the Falklands, into a mobile coffee truck, which will be at all of Sunderland AFC’s children’s games at the Academy of Light.
The aim is for veterans to learn and develop customer service and entrepreneurial skills, while becoming more socially integrated.
All proceeds made from the sale of refreshments will go directly to Forward Assist to help fund their ongoing work.
Sunderland AFC’s head of operations, Dave Moses, said: “Forward Assist is a wonderful charity, helping those who have given so much in the service of our country.
“It is an honour for Sunderland AFC to support the charity and we are delighted to welcome the veterans to the Academy of Light.”
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