Katrina's Truth in Recruitment Spring Fundraiser!

If you're unfamiliar with our work at TIR, our mission is to work with students, families, teachers, veterans, community organizations, and school districts to clarify the consequences of military careers, to provide balanced information so students can make educated choices about their future, we help inform families of their children's privacy rights, and to advocate for policies regulating recruiter presence on campuses.

Being a part of the Truth in Recruitment project and raising money towards our project is important to me because I've had experience with being recruited by military officers on my campus due to my background of being a low income student. Due to challenges at home, I felt hopeless about the idea of me stepping foot into college, but suddenly a recruiter had told me that I'd receive money benefits from joining the military which gave me hope that I'd be able to support my family without college. However, it wasn't until I became educated enough to realize that there are more resources out in the world to receive benefits to attend college, while the military's benefits were never a guaranteed benefit from them.  I now have a voice and position to protect other student’s privacy from recruiters and bring student insight into conversations regarding community decisions. If the project is successful, I believe student’s within the community would not only feel safer about their privacy being protected by military recruiters, but feel confident that there are alternatives to education and access to benefits. I am now hoping to make a difference in other student's lives, to guide them and their families properly about the reality of military careers.

 The best part about donating to Truth in Recruitment is knowing that we're an organization focused and fighting for your student's rights within your own community, their voice is important and deserves to be heard.