Former Soccer Player Helps US Homeless

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Channel: Voice of America · 2008 · People & Blogs

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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.

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