A new series of DIY SOS has returned to the BBC, in which Nick Knowles and his team of volunteers have taken on their biggest challenge yet. They are renovating an entire street to make a “veteran village”, complete with 62 homes and a walk-in support centre. Not only will these homes be suitable for those who have suffered the effects of war, such as Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder or the loss of limbs etc., it means that veterans will be surrounded by people who know exactly what they are going through. They will have community that is quite unique.
I think that this poses the question: Why hasn’t this been done before? Men and women all across the country are going out to war so that we can live a peaceful, happy life but what do we give them when they return? One of the veterans who was given a home said that children actually threw stones at him in the street where he was currently living! What kind of treatment is that for a man who has risked his life for the rest of us? Manchester is the only city in the UK that now has a “veteran village” but I hope that this programme will inspire us to complete similar projects all across the UK, in a hope that we can reduce the suffering that many war veterans are experiencing.
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