Former Soccer Player Helps US Homeless
4,038 views · Published 22 August 2008 · 2:44 · Indexed 23 October 2026
Channel: Voice of America · 2008 · People & Blogs
The United Nations estimates that more than 100-million people are homeless worldwide. And another one billion people lack adequate housing. Here in the United States, two-to-three million people [less than one percent of the population] have not had a home for more than a year. VOA's Sean Maroney reports on how one U.S. citizen is making a difference by turning his lifelong love for soccer [football] into a way to get people off the streets.