2019
The Blesma News for 2019 covering news, activities and fundraising events for limbless veterans.
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Real life stories: How a wounded soldier and nurse were reunited decades after WW2
19 November 2019
The last time Maria Kowalska and Waclaw Domagala met she was a 21-year-old nurse and he was a teenage soldier who had just had a leg amputated. A cheery “Good Morning, Sister” evaporated 75 years of separation in a remarkable meeting in a Devon care home earlier this year. Maria Kowalska didn’t recognise the man in the wheelchair, but Polish war hero and Blesma Member Waclaw Domagala never forgot the “angel” who nursed him after he was wounded in the World War II Battle of Monte Cassino. “I knew it
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The Blesma 100- 2019
31 October 2019
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Making Generation R reaches 50,000 people
14 October 2019
Making Generation R, an initiative by Blesma and social enterprise The Drive Project, has reached more than 50,000 young people since the birth of the programme in 2016. Making Generation R trains Blesma Members to take their powerful and inspiring life stories about overcoming adversity into schools to help teach pupils about everyday resilience. This learning allows the students to better cope with the stresses of growing up. In the 2018/19 school year, Blesma Members visited 182 schools, as well as educational, youth and first responder facilities
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Blesma Members take on the high seas in Florida Scuba activity
25 September 2019
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