Budding Designer For Homeless is Only 10

10-year-old sews clothes for the homeless 
FOX 10 News
By Courtney Griffin
Jun 22, 2015

PHOENIX (KSAZ) -

"He told me he wanted to start using his allowance to start buying fabric to make clothes to give to homeless kids," said Stephanie Elliot.

A young boy is giving back to his community after knowing all-to-well what it feels like to go without.

Dresses, pants, t-shirts, whatever it is, 10-year-old Xavier Elliot wants to design it.

He spent 8 of his 10 years alive in and out of homeless shelters. His dad was diagnosed with post-traumatic stress disorder after coming back from Iraq.

"We couldn't get the help we needed, so we ended up losing everything time and time again," said Xavier Elliot.

Stephanie, Xavier's mom, said after getting some help from the state, they want to give back. Now Xavier is sewing clothes for the homeless.
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'60 Minutes' spotlights homeless Central Florida kids

'60 Minutes' spotlights homeless Central Florida kids
By Hal Boedeker Orlando Sentinel television critic
11:15 p.m. EST, March 5, 2011
CBS' "60 Minutes" offers a wrenching segment Sunday on homeless children in Central Florida. Correspondent Scott Pelley said the report continues his look at people hurting in the wake of the Great Recession.

He wanted to focus on children after seeing a Congressional Budget Office projection that the child-poverty rate would soon hit 25 percent. Most of the CBS report concentrates on Seminole County. Pelley talks to Casselberry children, who speak of going to bed hungry and feeling embarrassed.

Two children stand out in the segment: 11-year-old Destiny Corfee, whose family lives in a motel, and Jacob Braverman, 14, whose family moved in with neighbors after losing their home to foreclosure. The report airs at 7 p.m. on WKMG-Channel 6.
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'60 Minutes' spotlights homeless Central Florida kids

Orlando teen will walk to D.C. to help homeless children

Orlando teen will walk to D.C. to help homeless children
When 14-year-old David Ashby writes his how-I-spent-my-summer-vacation essay next fall, he's hoping that everyone from Oprah Winfrey to the nation's housing secretary will take note.