The nonprofit Homes For Our Troops is hosting a Volunteer Day event to help landscape Chief Warrant Officer two Rebecca Mann’s future specially adapted custom home.

The event will be held on Saturday, April 29 from 9:30 a.m to 12 p.m in Mattapoisett.

Volunteers are asked to park the Knights of Columbus where a shuttle will transport them to the site location. 

The new home for Chief Warrant Officer Mann, who was severely injured in Afghanistan, has more than 40 accessibility adaptations including lower countertops and roll under sinks. 

Volunteers will  landscape the home by laying sod and planting trees and flowers in preparation for the Veteran’s homecoming. Participants are asked to bring gardening gloves and a lunch. 

Chief Warrant Officer  Mann was serving with the 1st Combat Aviation Brigade, 1st Infantry Division when she sustained an injury to her right foot.

In October 2017, Rebecca was in constant pain and elected to have doctors amputate her right foot.

Eventually, she learned she had a microvascular condition that was causing the pain and blood flow issues in her residual limb and left leg. After several unsuccessful attempts to correct the problem, Rebecca elected to have doctors amputate her left foot in 2020. 

Officer Mann will receive her home at a Key Ceremony event Saturday, May 13, 2023.