According to GMA Yahoo, a young college student named Evan Leedy ran across the story of James Robertson, a man who walks a total of 42 miles to and from work each day.
“What he walks is like me walking to work every day and I honestly couldn’t believe that,” Leedy told ABC News. “I thought to myself, ‘What would I do if my car broke down?,’ and I thought, ‘I have my parents and I have money to get an Uber.’”
“This guy doesn’t have that and he didn’t quit,” Leedy said.
After reading the Detroit Free Press story on Robertson, Leedy saw in the comments that people were looking for a way to help so he started a GoFundMe page for Robertson, a complete stranger to him, within minutes of finishing the story.
“I initially set the goal for $5,000 just to get him something, bus fares and taxi rides,” Leedy said. “I went to go get ready and an hour later we had $2,000 donated already.
Different car dealerships have reached out to Leedy to donate cars to Robertson after hearing about his story.
Robertson’s GoFundMe Page is now at $215,000. Glad to see that are still good people out there in the world.