BLACKWELL: How many of us can say we raised $20,000 for our community when we were just 9 years old? Well, William Larsy can. He started fighting hunger in his town two years ago when he was just 7 years old. In a moment, you'll understand why. "CNN Heroes" recognizes this extraordinary boy. Here's Williams' story.</s>UNIDENTIFIED CHILD: One day when I drove home from a Little League game, I saw a homeless man with a cardboard sign that said need a meal. So I told my mom I wanted to do something.</s>UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Will Larsey is a 9-year-old child. I hesitate to call him a child. I think he's in a category of his own. As a 7-year- old, he decided he was going to take on this issue of hunger.</s>UNIDENTIFIED CHILD: Welcome FROGS. My group is called "FROGS." It means friends reaching our goals and our motto is, having fun while helping others. I want you to write what we can do for a spring project.</s>UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: Will's big personality does not come from me.</s>UNIDENTIFIED CHILD: Fire me up. Pepper me.</s>UNIDENTIFIED MALE: I think every time you meet Will, you look at him and you say are you kidding me? But together with his buddies they have raised over $20,000 or the equivalent of 100,000 meals for Tarrant Area Food Bank.</s>UNIDENTIFIED CHILD: These peaches are a delight.</s>UNIDENTIFIED MALE: When you see somebody who gets so engaged and gets so much of the community engaged, it is an endorsement of the battle we fight to end hunger.</s>UNIDENTIFIED CHILD: Thank you.</s>BLACKWELL: Told you, extraordinary boy. Now a story that is just heart breaking for any parent, missing for more than two decades, an 8-year-old girl disappears. Her mother still holds on to hope that she'll come home. More on this cold case file coming up.
Fighting Hunger At Age 9