Blinded veteran Paschal Baute of Lexington, Kentucky, now 95 years old, has taken on a fundraising campaign to help BVA that is very likely unprecedented. He describes the project below. You can donate to Paschal’s Celebration of Life campaign using the following button.
Paschal’s Message:
At the start of July, my birthday month turning 95, I began my Celebration of Life by starting a fundraising campaign for BVA called “Grit-Freedom with Blindness” with a goal of $1,929 to match the year I was born. I have now surpassed that goal and revised the goal upward to $2,929 with the five remaining days in July to raise approximately $600. BVA is an organization that has done so much for me and my many fellow blinded veterans. I was excited to start this “go for broke” project.
A longtime friend of mine, 70 years in fact that I’ve known him, is faced with terminal cancer. He recently had his “Celebration of Life” event while still able and it occurred to me that I could do something like that. I decided that my project would be to make my birthday month a time to raise money for BVA. It has been the perfect celebration of life for me. I have asked everyone whose life I have touched to donate to the organization I have come to love and to which I am much indebted. You would be generous if you knew how many thousands of blinded veterans this precious organization has aided. Please help me during these days in the homestretch run and get me past the finish line!
Paschal is also offering an autographed copy of one of his books to all donors, regardless of donation amount. Click on the first button below to make that donation in honor of Paschal’s generosity and gracious testimonial. He also relates his life story in Episode #8 of an Apple Podcast series entitled “Grace-Grit-Hope,” located online and available by clicking the second button below.
