Student who started walking from midnight in order to get to his new job by 8 a.m. is gifted a new car by his CEO (video)
An Alabama college student walked 20 miles in the dark to get to his new job and this act of dedication inspired the company’s CEO to gift him a car.
Walter Carr, who couldn’t find a ride after his car broke down, started walking from Homewood at midnight in order to arrive at his Bellhops moving job in Pelham by 8 a.m. on Friday. At about 4 a.m., Pelham police picked him up and took him to breakfast before dropping him off at the home of customer Jenny Lamey.
Lamey said Carr, despite walking for hours, declined her offer to rest and had plenty of energy for the job. Touched by his work ethics, she started to help him with his car troubles by creating a GoFundMe page.
“I just can’t tell you how touched I was by Walter and his journey. He is humble and kind and cheerful and he had big dreams! He is hardworking and tough,” she wrote on Facebook.
After seeing the Facebook post, Bellhops CEO Luke Marklin drove from Tennessee to Alabama on Monday and presented his dedicated new employee with his personal 2014 Ford Escape.
Carr, who hopes to be a US Marine one day, made the late-night journey after his 2003 Nissan Altima broke down. He calculated it would take seven hours to get to his first moving gig with the Bellhops moving company so he started out just after midnight. He was trekking along Highway 280 when concerned police officers stopped to check on his well-being. After Carr told them his story, they bought him breakfast before delivering him to Lamey’s home an hour and a half early.
Carr says he hopes his story inspires others to fight for what they want out of life, even if it means having sore feet.
He said: “I wanted to show them that I have the dedication and that I always have [it] in my life and that I am going to get to this job one way or the other. I tell people if you think over 20 miles is a lot, then come walk in my shoes because my shoes was really killing me that day.”
American rapper DC Young Fly fulfills dream to move his mother out of the hood (photovideo)
Rapper John Whitfield aka ‘DC Young Fly’ took to Instagram to share a video of his mother’s joyous reaction after he revealed that the home they were checking out belonged to her.
In his caption, the 26-year-old stated that it was the dream of every nig*a in the hood to move their mother out to better neighbourhoods.
MANILA, Sept. 15 (Xinhua) -- The Philippines announced on Friday that it is sending later this month its economic managers to China to promote the government's planned multi-billion-dollar infrastructure projects.
In a statement, the Department of Finance said a team of economic managers led by Finance Secretary Carlos Dominguez will bring the Duterte administration's so-called "Build, Build, Build" roadshow to China on Sept. 27-29 to promote the government's planned Golden Age of Infrastructure.
The government unveiled the ambitious program in April that aims to create more jobs and realize its goal of economic inclusion for all Filipinos.
The statement said Dominguez and the rest of the team will meet with Chinese officials to discuss preparations for the Philippines' big-ticket infrastructure projects that would be partly funded by China.
The Duterte administration is planning to spend up to 9 trillion pesos (175.7 billion U.S. dollars) on the program, over the next five years.
Dominguez said the "Build, Build, Build" program will be funded by a combination of resources from its proposed comprehensive tax reform program, foreign development aid and commercial loans.
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