A Kansas Metropolis veteran is working 20 miles with 50 kilos on his again to battle homelessness.
KANSAS CITY, MO (KCTV) — An Military veteran from Missouri is working 20 miles with 50 kilos on his again on Veteran’s Day to unfold consciousness about homelessness.
Clay Daniels is on the ReStart, Inc., Board of Administrators. Based mostly downtown, Restart is offering Kansas Metropolis’s much less lucky and most susceptible inhabitants with housing and sources.
Daniels is an Military main veteran, a Inexperienced Beret and former soccer participant at West Level. He’s now the service president at U.S. Engineering. He has a compassion for veterans who’re homeless, and hopes to unfold consciousness by his trek on the streets for the third straight yr.
Daniels’ run final yr had him working 40 miles with 40 kilos to lift $40,000 aim for ReStart’s fortieth yr of service. He beat that by greater than $20,000. This yr, he’s going to attempt for one more $20,000 in fundraising.
“I feel bringing consciousness to that drawback and getting a variety of drawback solvers on the market that may assist assist a company like ReStart, that’s actually on the middle of making an attempt to unravel that drawback, is essential,” Daniels mentioned.
ReStart serves all homeless populations, together with singles, households, folks with psychological diseases, LGBTQ+, unaccompanied youth, and veterans.
The group has 12 places, 10 in Missouri and three in Kansas. They assist round 400 folks every day by prevention, outreach and shelter by addressing boundaries to housing by companies like case administration, road outreach and employment companies.
“Finally, Kansas Metropolis is our city, and if we are able to empower them to unravel this drawback, and on prime of that, if we are able to get different folks to do one thing related in direction of their ardour, their objectives — I feel that’s actually what I’m making an attempt to perform,” mentioned Daniels.
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