To celebrate Women Veterans Day, the Texas Veterans Commission is holding a 5K on Saturday, June 4.
at Camp Mabry on Saturday, June 4. Krystle Matthews with the TVC joins FOX 7's Mike Warren to discuss this event.Mike: So tell us a little bit about the event.
Krystle: Yes. So every year we celebrate Women Veterans Day on June 12. And so this year, we're actually having our event a little bit earlier. So we'll have a 5K on June 4 at Camp Mabry in Austin. And so that event starts at 9:30 a.m. We're very excited about it. And we want everyone to come- it's for active duty or veteran reservists, National Guard, family members, supporters all come out and support that event. Let's show women veterans that we support them.
Mike: Your position at the Texas Veterans Commission, obviously dealing with women veterans. What are the big challenges for women veterans in this day and age? Krystle: Yes, well, so over the last two years, the major challenges we've seen is financial assistance along with employment. So anything from housing, childcare, food insecurity, those have been major things in the last two years that have hit women veterans. And so the way that we try to help is getting them connected to our employment department and our partners and then also assisting them with their emergency financial needs.
Mike: Okay. Well, the event is this Saturday. We hope it is a big one. We have to wrap up for now. But Krystle Matthews with the Texas Veterans Commission, thanks very much for talking with us.
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