Eleven-Year-Old Boy Walks to Help Homeless Children

More than one million children are homeless in the United States. To highlight the problem, 11-year-old Zach Bachman walked hundreds of kilometers from his home city of Tampa, Florida to the U.S. capitol, in Washington, DC. Along the way, Zach helped out at shelters for the homeless. In this week's installment of our series, Making a Difference, VOA's Deborah Block tells us about his journey.

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[jls1znv9999]

@anarchy3E

Well i guess you don't have a heart. No child has ever asked to be born. It's the adults who recklessly have kids that they cannot afford to raise or even love!

[anarchy3E]

zach walks cause he wants to lose those extra pounds

look at him, he is eleven and already a beergut owner

what a lardass

brainwashed by his own extreme christian lunatics parent no doubt

brainwashed lardass and probably gay too

[letterstoacheater]

wow what he does is really awesome...but doesnt he have to go to school?

[EmilyWebb123456]

Brilliant Zac!!

[iluvu4ever64]

Dang boy! make your country proud, i wish i could do the same but 'm working hard to make sure my siblings never end up like that. Keep up the good work!! I'm sure God is smiling down on you for what you're doing.

[mctisher]

Zach, kudos to you awesome initiative on your part! I support you every step of the way! 9,600 Minnesotans sleep outside at night and many of them are children under the age of 6 years.

[email2nook]

wow ! do what you can do dude

[Th2EyA0rEa1MoN2gUs]

very inspirational many are waking up in different ways.

peace