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Project Video Connect: We're Here Until They're Home

The Highlands Chapter of the American Red Cross is proud to announce the continuation of “Project Video Connect: We’re Here Until They’re Home” in the greater Fayetteville/ Ft. Bragg area.

This service entails loved ones to send a free 2 minute video message to any military member with an email address.

In order to send a message you will need to have:

Service persons name

Service persons Email address (example: john.doe@US.Army.com)

Access the link below to view a demo Vidi Connect message
http://message.viditalk.com/ver12/showvideo0539.asp?vid=38986.343134-4319

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Our Current sponsors who have chosen to support our local military families are:

Junior League of Fayetteville

Fayetteville Swampdogs

Player Inc.

The Fayetteville Association of Realtors

We have sponsorships available at several levels. Sponsors will be recognized prominently on our website and on Vidi Connect equipment and promotional materials. This is a great
way for local businesses to show their support of the military in a way that the military and their families truly appreciate.

If are looking for a way to support our local military families and loved ones, please contact Executive Director Jack Nales at the Highlands Office via email or phone at (910)-867-8151.

If you are interested in recording a video, please contact the Highlands Chapter office to schedule an appointment. Videos can be recorded at the Highlands Chapter Office, 807 Carol Street, Fayetteville, NC, as well as at various other locations per requests of local organizations. To schedule a recording session, please call (910) 867-8151.

About Video Connect

Project Video Connect was originally launched by America Online in May 2003 and allows thousands of military personnel who are still overseas and their families to send video messages to each other from USO locations around the world via AOL for Broadband. Project Video Connect gives military families, troops and supporters the opportunity to communicate “face-to-face” by creating personal video messages that can be sent free of charge using VIDITalk, a special video messaging program created by VIDISolutions, a leading supplier of video communications software.

One hundred computer stations provided by HP and equipped with VIDITalk and AOL for Broadband are being installed throughout the U.S. and around the world, many of these at American Red Cross chapters and USO offices. The Highlands Chapter is excited to be participating in this program!

The simple process, which only takes a matter of minutes, allows military personnel and their families to use a computer equipped with a video camera to record a video message, create a URL (internet address) containing that message, and then send the link to their loved one over AOL for Broadband. The message reaches its recipient via regular email, and can be viewed or re-sent over any broadband connection. With hundreds of thousands of troops remaining overseas for an indefinite amount of time, PVC is meant to keep them connected to their friends and family for a long as possible.