As temperatures fall, there are still thousands of homeless people living on the streets. Here's how people in the U.S., France, and Hungary are helping.
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00:00When I was three years old, I was vacationing in Austin with my parents and a person asked us for money.
00:11I didn't understand it, so I asked my parents.
00:15They tried to explain it the best they could to me.
00:19And then a few days later, I brought it up and said, we need to help.
00:30Jake is very engaged in Jake's Heart.
00:43As I said, he's the founder of Jake's Heart.
00:45He actually helps put together the assembly lines for the supplies that gets put into the care packages for the homeless.
00:55He also is very engaging with the homeless individuals wherever we are.
01:00It's not just like he takes the packages and takes it to a shelter and drops it off and feels good about it.
01:05Thank you, Mary Carmichael.
01:14I help the homeless because it makes me feel happy and it makes me feel good.
01:21And it makes my day.
01:24I see the future.
01:33Houses for every single homeless person and then also jobs for them.
01:41Would you like some tea, coffee or hot chocolate?
01:45Here you go, little man.
01:47Bye!
01:55We were really shocked by the number of people on the street.
01:57And I think that when you come from the province, you're not used to meeting so many people on the street.
02:03And it's mostly the general indifference of all the people who pass by the homeless people
02:07that shocked all the members of the association who wanted to get involved.
02:13I look up, I say hello and I really look at these people and I think they are really surprised.
02:24We are very happy to meet you.
02:26Thank you so much for the opportunity.
02:45A blanket for winter allows you to think a little bit about certain words,
02:49but it doesn't solve all the misery that exists in France and elsewhere.
02:53Good evening, goodbye.
02:57We wanted to do something useful, so this whole thing was born as a completely spontaneous idea.
03:05We went out to Kötön, and after we did this first little action,
03:12we made 150 sandwiches, we packed everything that would be useful for the homeless people on the street,
03:17what they might need, the Bike Mafia was born.
03:35Kötön, Hungary
03:47So, Andi, how many sandwiches do we have here?
03:5022, now we are making 45, but we will be done in half an hour.
04:04Kötön, Hungary