A community garden for veterans is in the works at Esperanza en Escalante, an organization that provides transitional and permanent housing for homeless vets.

The previous garden had been abandoned for some time so Suzanne Bond, Esperanza's CEO, got together with Engineers Without Borders (EWB) - University of Arizona Chapter to bring it back to life.

EWB partners with communities around the world to meet their basic human needs. Their volunteers roll up their sleeves and work side by side with locals to create lasting infrastructure that makes a real difference.

Tony Fennell, Responsible Engineer In Charge (REIC), and also a member of Veterans of Foreign Wars (VFW) Post 549, says the garden was rundown and hadn't been used in quite a while.

So what our mission is, is to rehabilitate i

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