At only 7 years old, this little boy is already giving back to the local vets by helping thousands of them in Maryland.

Coming from a family of veterans, Tyler Stallings became inspired to help them when his mother Andrea, showed him a video about the people who sacrifice their lives to serve their country back in 2015. “When he said, but why are they homeless? You said they were heroes. That was something that I wanted to answer, but the only way I could figure it out was to help him through it.” Says Andrea, Tyler’s mom and co-founder of Give Back To Veterans.





Tyler then asked his mother what they can do to support these veterans so they don’t become homeless anymore, and they came up with the idea of giving them “hero bags.” He started giving away bags to local vets that are filled with items such as clothes, toiletries, shoes and food, as well as information about free services for veterans in need at the Maryland Center for Veteran Education and Training. (MCVET)





“At first, it was hard for people to take a four-year-old seriously,” says Andrea. “It took me a while to find a shelter that would let him come in and help. But when shelters like MCVET finally did, they loved having him there. It’s nice to have a child in an environment like that. We would take them care packages with toiletries and grooming products to thank people for their service, and they would take whatever they needed.”

Over the last three years, Tyler has given away over 2,000 bags and raised over $17,200 in GoFundMe donations to help the homeless vets. He has also partnered up with mattress manufacturers all throughout Maryland to donate 250 mattresses for the vets currently living in MCVET.

His goal is to be able to use a portion of all donations to start his own nonprofit organization to help other homeless people too, and his mother couldn’t be any more proud.

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