Community helps 11-year-old Gretna boy collect, deliver 7,500 bottles of water for homeless.
(KMTV) – Caleb Sherman, 11, of Gretna, just wanted to collect some bottles of water to give to the homeless.
So between the camps and baseball games this summer, this soon-to-be sixth-grader set out to collect bottled water all though the month of June for the Open Door Mission — for a second time.
Last year, he collected about 800 bottles of water.
To boost his donations this time around, Caleb reached out to his community for help.
"He’s typically reserved, shy.
So far this June, Caleb has collected a lot more bottles of water than he did last year: 7,500 bottles were sitting in the family’s garage Friday as his mom tried to figure out how to get them all over to the mission.
"We’re still working on that," Tammy said.
Mary Mueller, an Omaha realtor, donated use of a truck to help Caleb get his water to the mission.
"It was so inspiring, what you guys are doing," Mueller said to the family.