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Less Fortunate Serve Others on Thanksgiving

Las Vegas -- Owens and Main Street, just south of the North Las Vegas city line, is an area where many of the Valley's homeless shelters reside. In places like the Catholic Charities and the Salvation Army is where you'll find a special group of kids, themselves with so little,  giving back in a big way to those less fortunate.

The kids arrived to the area with a red pickup truck. The lowered tailgate turned into a feeding station for those in need.

"These people they don't have homes," says Raeshawn Gaston, one of volunteers. "They don't have what we got at home right now."

Along with her twin-brother brother Roshad, Gaston volunteered her time handing out donuts and hot chocolate to those who stopped by.

"I just want to give the shirt off my back to them because they don't have warm clean clothes everyday," Roshad said. "If I could I really would."

He went up and down the street singing, checking on every person making sure no one was left out.

The Gastons are part of Family Impact Nevada, an agency that works with kids of the state. "Ward of the state," explains Jasmine White with Family Impact of Nevada, "Meaning they were in the system and either a family member would have them, and being in the system you are not with your immediate family but it's an aunt or cousin, or older sister, the state deemed necessary to take care of you."

So even with less than an ideal situation at home, these young people chose to give back on a day we all give thanks.

"No I never thought i would be able to help anyone like this," Roshad says. "l but seeing these people like my age out here, it helps me want to come back and want to do it for more and more."

And no matter what these kinds have hone through in their short lives, it isn't keeping them from realizing what Thanksgiving is all about.

Family Impact of Nevada was created to meet the needs of children and adolescents in the foster care system. It services families across the Las Vegas valley.