yo you guys what is going on is blazendary here and today in this video I'm
gonna be doing something super special today my agency ended up getting in
contact with a shelter that is located in Charlotte that I believe I've been to
before and the shelter itself is looking for donations clean sneakers clean
clothing I'm gonna be spreading the holiday cheer and I'm gonna be going to
the shelter I have two shelters I'm going to today is called the relatives
tomorrow is going to be with my mom's work there's a lot of really nice things
in here a nike jacket adidas t-shirt it's a hundreds bunch of unisex H&M
t-shirts and then we have a ton of pants in a couple different sizes I have a
couple shoes in my size that I'm gonna be donating as well right now I have to
make three pit stops first pit stop I have to make is my storage unit because
I'm gonna be bringing a nice suitcase and I have some merch that I also want
to go ahead and throw in there as well and then the second place get some food
and the third place that I'm gonna be going to is my homie Anthony he and I
have been in contact for probably close to six years at this point we've known
each other in the whole nikkor and streetwear community and he owns a shop
I'm gonna be getting a ton of pairs to donate to the shelter which is awesome I
have access to sizes with this shop that I wouldn't normally have for example
Youth sizing the shops gonna have that for us alright just coming through to
grab my suitcase all these are larger sizes right there super excited this
holiday season to just give back it's something super important to me I have a
pretty interesting reason as to why we're giving back to a runaway shelter
specifically I'm gonna go in that a little bit more throughout the video
next destination ooh 298 frozen patties lay down we just got to the shop battle
walk upstairs get the piss
let me just see what you think succeptible is 60 pairs this is just so
you're right it was like a lot more and I just have I just want to see if
they're up to your call like visually all the shoes are mad clean
check out this right here and we're going to to shelters actually so
tomorrow we're doing a second one they some stuff people would definitely pay
for you to all these team J's and stuff they're from NBA really yeah they're all
like most of them are all like sample tags and everything
yeah like see these are from things are from Hakeem Nicks this pair from a
professional athlete I guess I summer Panthers summer Hornet okay and then
some are just like some misc
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fives over here got some air Max's Snow Queen these are these are it was a
beater pair again desert and we're gonna try and get a mixture of sizes like we
got size 11 then these right here these look pretty
small we got like a size 8 perfect you know everybody's situation is
different we want to accommodate everyone the most sizes we can the
better I hope some of the kids know what they are too so they they get some
pretty fresh day for Christmas of it yeah just the excitement of knowing what
it could be here's a brand new size take that I think that'd be our biggest one
thank you so much I'll see you tomorrow for the rest chat out your shop and
everything like let people know where you're at and why you wanted to spread
the goodness and holiday cheer this season what's up guys I'm figs from
Seoul station 704 this is my shop here in Charlie North Carolina we do buy sell
trade we just donated about 50 pairs of shoes for blaze and dairies charity we
just love showing love man we got a lot of love given to us and we just spread
it back we do a lot for our city as well as you know I'm saying everybody we can
appreciate y'all messing with us man dude I got your brother's shoes for your
dad in 2012 Christmas we I remember thank you so much I really appreciated
that I was I was literally going into like five ten pairs perfect 50 60 pairs
like that's so good because that means tomorrow we're gonna have so much to
give to the other place getting the community of Charlotte together and it's
just great to see everybody tie in together to make something great happen
like this we also have some more donations right here we have some
thorlos socks so we have a ton of different sizes in all these different
boxes each box has see a ton of socks in them so they're all different types of
socks we got like winter socks summer socks ski socks this video I haven't
talked about spreading awareness yet and why we're doing this and I really wanted
to bring my dad in on the subject so why are we spreading awareness for this type
of charity and also to I've told the I told him before off-camera that we got
60 pairs from Anthony so yeah about that label yeah really thank you so much for
stepping up I mean there's so many people out there that need this and and
we're happy to be able to touch at least the City of Charlotte who does show us a
tremendous amount of love but yeah I mean this is a personal this is a
personal endeavor for us in our family I mean luckily the Giancarlo and Leo
didn't have to go through some of the hardships that I went through as a youth
you know they we gave them the basic necessities and they took care of the
rest but for me growing up I didn't even have
the basic necessities after about age 15 and I was homeless on my own living on
the street up until about 17 18 years old so I know very very well firsthand
exactly what this is what it feels like to be on the street and every single
night that crawl up in a in a slide somewhere the one t-shirt in one
sweatshirt and twenty degrees and hopefully wake up in the next morning
with your fingers and toes so you know come a long way you know definitely
through hard work and perseverance you know that's that's a message that we
could definitely sprint everywhere there's nothing that can stop you
there's nothing that should ever be able to stop you it's all about how hard you
want it how bad you want it and just never given up I want to give back and
show you guys you know that you can do this as well whatever it is if you guys
want to get in the spirit of giving in the donation season then this is
very excited this is something I've been looking forward to for a little bit now
and my dad is like the biggest inspiration for me to do this just
giving back to community man it honestly just feels great what we do on Fridays
we have a huge holidays like party where the young adults are either homeless or
have aged out of the foster care system and they get to come down and pick
petting out how many items we have they get to pick through and choose like
items that we've been collecting so I already put the shoes on the pigs a
bunch of different sizes like jeans and Adidas shirts
yeah that was that was a personal terrible player
the relatives name actually came from when they would hear the young kids or
the young adults tell people where they were staying they would say we're
staying with relatives and so that's kind of where the name came from
I'm Carrington Byers I'm currently 22 years old I came to stay at the relative
when I was 14 I actually stayed here like maybe two or three times as
homeless didn't really have any family nights I was actually eating out the
dumpster I can say the relatives really changed my life and the relatives I went
to foster care I was there for about three or four years I graduated high
school with the college did all that so now just coming back to show these kids
there's actually you know weigh out whatever situation she's going through
there's always good like I was stable when I hunt for a while but you know me
and her had a little situation so I couldn't stay with her and I found about
this place there's a lot of kids they know there was the same situation as me
that I knew at the time they were actually wants treat some of them I
still you ever try to reach out to those kids that guys now now probably to
actually doing doing so there's another program called Johnny place it's a
transitional home from Maine from 18 to 21 coming out of foster care they set
you up like in a house is like a dorm situation type thing and I'm gonna teach
you about like money management interview skills things like that just
to get you ready for work for so what you want to do with your life for
probably my body suit for you things like little things like that that uh you
know help you so Harrington you know was in the crisis
center he went to our journey place program which is that transitional
living home and now he's living independently for the last what
it's almost please two years now independently to have years yeah and
still comes in checks in with us you know if he needs something he lets us
know but he's pretty much flying on his own now
she wanted to know get a message city kids he's always you know a way out
not the legislation determine was she gonna do in the future these times you
know I was I would find myself crying bless now that's it
so state police program is actually a national program that we manage though
in Charlotte Mecklenburg area the relatives organization so what it is is
any kid can walk into any location that has the safe place on so you'll see them
everywhere now quick trips or chip waves or
every bus in this city of Charlotte has won honor and a camp in know that that
means then they have a safe place to go to so the people and the staff at those
locations know to call us and then we go and pick up that child and bring them to
our Crisis Center I'll tell you a little story though that will showcase why take
place is so important so we celebrate every March we have what's called
Roberts walk and Robert was a young man that was staying in Freedom Park on a
bench after he got out of the juvenile correctional system and his parents had
left him before his 18th birthday they just packed up all their belongings and
completely left the home and he went home when he was released and to find it
empty so he ended up homeless he was sleeping on a bench in Freedom Park and
one day he was walking up the street and saw this sign and knew from school that
that meant he would have a safe place to go so he knocked on the door and the
staff said come on in thank you no menace most basic needs first fed him
gave him a shower and then they let him tell his story and then the next two
weeks before his 18th birthday worked quickly to get him into our Resource
Center uptown helped him find a job and so every year we celebrate Robert seeing
this sign with our Robert Woods walk so we just finished up and that was
honestly like I was talking to my parents and them off-camera and
everything and that was honestly a really awesome experience seeing those
kids happy just really put a smile on my face as well and you know staying
positive hearing Carrington's story and all that just I wanted to make about
them just get the message out there spread awareness that you know if you
are in a bad situation there is hope you can find somewhere to
go and it is the next day so today we are going to be going to the second
place that my mom's job has organized the event with she asked me to be a part
of it of course I would be and I'm going to be collecting the rest of the
sneakers that we left at Seoul station yesterday just arrived to Seoul station
once again
what's up five for you how you doing you ready five six males between the ages of
17 and 18 and then from Seoul station it's a story game these yeah no problem
no problem
wantonness a quick couple things before we go ahead and close out this video
Anthony from Seoul station 704 bro thank you so much for your generous donation
of 60 plus pairs thanks to you so many people can now enjoy amazing pairs of
sneakers that they got and I was blown away I was expecting five ten pairs of
sneakers just like last year and we gave away about 20 but this time we did 60
and we took it up a notch it made me so happy seeing that we can do that for all
those kids in there so thank you so much Anthony your donation was super generous
also thank you to throw socks because they sent over those sock care packages
and that of course really is a help and lastly I wanted to say thank you to the
relatives because you guys are an amazing organization an amazing group of
people I want to spread awareness with this video and educate my audience and
anybody out there watching that if you are in a situation there is a safe place
you can go and a place that will take you in and take care of you thank you
guys for watching this video I really hope you enjoyed it and I'll catch you
guys on another blazon airy video it's Blazendary I'm out stay positive
everyone