EDDA CONTE-La Piana and son Anthony E. La Piana Founder and President of GCA.  EDDA passed away from kidney cancer on November 05th, 2011 at home with her son Anthony.

Guardian Corps of America is committed to helping individuals afflicted with kidney cancer, and any type of cancer illness.

Guardian Corps of America supports the study and research to find a cure for the cancer illness.  

A report about the alarming increased rate of cancer statistics within the next decade. http://www.cnn.com/2014/02/ 04/health/who-world-cancer-report/

The average age of people when they are diagnosed is 64. Kidney cancer is very uncommon in people younger than age 45. Kidney cancer is among the 10 most common cancers in both men and women. Overall, the lifetime risk for developing kidney cancer is about 1 in 63 (1.6%).Jan 5, 2017

 http://www.cancer.gov/cancertopics/wyntk/kidney/WYNTK_Kidney.pdf

* Photo below shows homeless men holding supplies and food coupons given to them by GCA representatives in 2020.  Shown in background on the table is an abundance of supplies and sleeping mats donated to this homeless encampment by GCA.   Photo taken in 2021.

  * Photo Below of a homeless person sleeping in a cardboard box under lower wacker drive in city of Chicago, IL.  Photo taken in April 2017.

                                 Support An Organization That Supports You!

Tony La Piana Founder & President of GCA and Tom Schulze former business manager of American Legion Post #256 Commodore Barry in Berwyn, IL. 

On behalf of GCA we wish to express our deepest appreciation to Tom for his generous support during Tony La Piana's (MOM) Walk Project in 2012.

GCA would like to also Thank Tom and all the members from Post #256 for their work and efforts supporting our veterans.

GCA is concerned about the AMERICAN FREEDOM FIGHTER!  We assist with food, clothing, shelter and other valuable support services for homeless veterans suffering on the streets of AMERICA! It is a fact the majority of the homeless population in America are American military veterans. 

GCA is an advocate for the American military veteran and we are working to make the lives of our brave men and women better through our community based programs.

GCA will help assist with.

1. OPERATION EDDA - Homeless Persons Survival Kit.   This amazing mobile care package was created and designed by ANTHONY E. La Piana, founder and president of GCA. The Homeless Person Survival Kit is distributed throughout the greater Chicago Land area.  Kits are delivered to various homeless shelters, soup kitches, military veterans posts, community centers, churches, police departments, hospitals, and on a direct outreach basis where GCA volunteers work the streets searching for homeless veterans and homeless citizens.  

The Operation EDDA -Homeless Persons Survival Kit includes many essential items ranging from toothpaste, toothbrush, free sandwich coupons, nutrional bars, tooth floss and a booklet for Spiritual Nourishment.  

                                                   "OPERATION EDDA"

OPERATION EDDA is a campaign to help American Military Veterans who are homeless, and homeless citizens.  The Survival Kit is distributed to the homeless population  living on the streets, homeless shleters, churches, and community centers and anywhere else a homeless person can be found. 

The photograph below depicts the contents in the Homeless Person Survival Kit. New content is always being added.  

In 2022 GCA enhanced and improved its Operation EDDA Homeless Persons Survival Kits.   

                                                     

            2022 Care Packages currently available: 

1. Universal Kit (UK):   Available for both adult men and women.

2. Female Kit (FK):  Available for the adult female only.

3.  The  Bundler ( Special Order) is a kit especially assemble and designed for the American War Bride of American Military Veterans.  The BUNDLER can ONLY be ordered by an American War Bride!

4. Childrens kit (CK):  Available for young children only.  Its A BackPack!

5. Veterans Universal Kit (VUK): Available for adult male and female USA military homeless veterans, and Veterans in need. 

 * All kits have basic hygiene products, clothing, non - prerishable food, and guide booklet with support materials.

            

                                   The average age of a homeless child is 9 years.

OPERATION EDDA - Homeless Persons Survival Kit is for people who are homeless.

GCA can also assist with Food, clothing, sleeping gear and  for Americans who are homeless and U.S. homeless veterans.

*     GCA supports and networks with The Veterans Administration - VA hospitals,  Jesse Brown and HINES VA.   

*      We also network with agencies who can provide job placement for veterans.

               For immediate HELP for a veteran in need of help call                                                    1-877-4AIDVET (1-877-424-383).  

* In DuPage County call the DuPage CountyVeterans Commission - Steve Fixler at 630 - 407 - 5655.

(Photo Left is courtesy of: Official U.S. Navy Imagery) Naval  personnel visit a Veterans Homeless shelter.

HELP SAVE OUR BRAVE MEN AND WOMEN!

http://www.westsuburbanpads.org/

Support our Homeless Veterans!

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Homelessness

http://gma.yahoo.com/suicide-rate-spikes-vietnam-vets-wont-seek-help-141731571--abc-news-health.html

JON PETER TURK  1948 - 1967  Was killed in Vietnam while on a recon mission with five other American soldiers.  JON went to Proviso East H.S. in Maywood, IL., and lived in Melrose Park, IL. He was just 19 years old when he was killed.  JON was best friends with Bill La Piana, brother of Anthony E. La Piana, founder and president of Guardian Corps of America. 

The average age of our brave young American men and women fighting in the Vietnam War was 19 years of age. 

On behalf of GUARDIAN COPRS of AMERICA we Thank JON and all the brave American men and women who served during the Vietnam War.

                SAVE THE AMERICAN FREEDOM FIGHTER!

NEVER FORGET BATAAN!

 2014 Annual Bataan Memorial held in Maywood, IL. 

Starting From (L) in green Army fatigue's- Anthony E. La Piana Founder and President of  Guardian Corps of America, following are members of the Maywood Bataan Organization, the late Barry Cicero, center - Marine Sgt Major Edwin Walker, (Vietnam), Army Col. Richard McMahon, (Vietnam) and Steve Gibsom, computer specialist for the Maywood Annual Bataan Organization.                         

 Photo (L) supporters for American P.O.W.S arriving home from the Vietnam War.

Complications from AGENT ORANGE is killing American serviceman and woman who served during the Vietnam War in Southeast Asia in record numbers.  

Complications caused by the foliant AGENT ORANGE was sprayed on vegatation in the jungles in Vietnam during the Vietnam War. 

So many of our vietnam veterans have suffered because of AGENT ORANGE!   So many were dinied disability benefits.    

WHY?

A)  Mental Health and Disabilities. 

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mental_health

 Many military veterans suffer from Post Traumatic Stress Disorder. 

PTSD is not mental illness.  It is caused by being in a constant state of intense anxiety brought on from the fear of being hurt by someone or something.   Civilians who experience war are often casulaties of PTSD.  Many American military veterans suffer from PTSD caused by combat situations or other situations related to the same. 

BELIEVE It Or NOT!   There are approximately 62% of Americans suffering from Post Traumatic Stress Disorder in the United States of America!

        REPORT MENTAL HEALTH ABUSE!

                                                            http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_mental_disorders

http://www.webmd.com/mental-health/news/20130425/faith-may-complement-treatment-for-mental-illness

http://news.msn.com/us/iowa-turkey-plant-workers-awarded-dollar240m-for-years-of-abuse  Link: An owner of a plant facility found guilty of abuse and torture of mentally ill men where he housed and employed them. 

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Manteno_State_Hospital Manteno Mental Health State Hospital.

http://sometimes-interesting.com/2013/03/01/manteno-state-hospital/ Manteno Mental Health State Hospital where there were wide spread reports of abuse.

http://www.flickr.com/photos/usgao/8368350230/ Children at risk.

http://www.citypaper.net/blogs/nakedcity/Disability-group-sues-state-DOC-for-abuse.html State of Pennslvania sues Department of Corrections. 

State of Colorado reports mental illness attack: http://news.yahoo.com/theater-attack-prompts-colo-mental-health-law-195749086.html 

A man (patient) being held against his will in a mental hospital for a petty crime he committed almost four decades ago. http://news.yahoo.com/69-old-man-still-mental-150000240.html / http://www.opposingviews.com/i/society/crime/man-spends-43-years-mental-hospital-stealing-20-necklace

The Mentally Ill and physically impaired used for human experimentation projects. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unethical_human_experimentation_in_the_United_States

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B)               Elderly and Sick

The Nursing Home industry in America generate 80 billion dollars in annual revenue. 

Elder Abuse. http://www.helpguide.org/mental/reporting_elder_abuse.htm

Nursing Home Abuse. http://ag.ky.gov/civil/consumerprotection/seniors/documents/protectnursinghomeresidents.pdf

                                                Report Elder Abuse to Authorities!

                                                     SAVE our senior population! 

                                              SPEAK OUT AGAINST ELDER ABUSE!

Report nursing home abuse (Illinois Department on                    Aging) http://www.state.il.us/aging/1abuselegal/ombuds_reporting.htm

                                                                                  DON'T BE AFRAID

                                                                            Be Smart!

          REPORT ELDER ABUSE to the COPS!                                            

                                            PROTECTING MOM and DAD

Protect our Loved Ones who live in a nursing home or receive care from a home health care facility.  Make certain the elderly and sick are not abused. YOU! have a moral obligation to protect the elderly and sick from those who try to take advantage of them.  If You are witness to elder abuse and do nothing, You condone the actions of an evil doer!  

 "WE PLEDGE NOT TO KEEP CALM UNTIL ALL SENIOR CITIZENS ARE SAFE FROM FINANCIAL EXPLOITATION, AND PHYSICAL AND VERBAL ABUSE."

            NEVER GIVE UP!

 Guardian Corps of America wants YOU to be responsible and report Elder Abuse to the COPS!

  Protect MOM and DAD from the Bogeyman! 

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C)                                            Children at Risk!

                    Orphan Children without Families

In America there are hundreds and hundreds of children left to care for themselves.  

Help fight against child abandonment by supporting the GCA Orphan Children Awarness Campaign. 

The GCA Operation EDDA - Homeless Persons Survival Kit (CK) Childrens Kit is a care package designed for Orphan and Homeless children.  (CK) stands for Childrens Kit.

The Congressional Coalition on Adoption:  Click here for details regarding orphan children in  America.  http://www.ccainstitute.org/why-we-do-it-/facts-and-statistics.html 

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Orphan

                        Many Children have no one to call them Home!

The next time you hear someone comment "No child should be left behind." Ask: "does that include orphan children?"  In America today there are thousands of children living in some type of orphange or government housing assistance center.   Many have been abandoned with no place to call home. 

                                  Many children are abandoned by their natural parents!

                                                                Learn the Hard TRUTH! 

Photo Below: 

EDDA CONTE- La Piana gave the little money left over from her weekly paycheck to orphan children around the world.  This little boy was very fortunate to receive money every month from EDDA who would send to the agency caring for the child half way around the world. 

                                                              SAVE THE CHILDREN!