WATCH: The Burrito Boyz Bring 'Nutrients, Hope and Dignity' to San Diego's Homeless

Each Sunday at 5 a.m., Michael Johnson wakes up, heads to a pizza kitchen, and leads a bunch of volunteers in making lots of of egg, cheese and potato burritos for the homeless. "It hurts to believe that we've got fed 131,000 individuals," Johnson tells americans. "I hope that quantity didn't exist, however the truth is there are people on the streets."

The San Diego, California, dad became inspired to delivery the challenge, now referred to as the Burrito Boyz, in 2011 after his 12-yr-ancient son introduced a Christmas hope list including an iPhone, MacBook Air and other expensive gadgets. "My wife, Mehrnaz, and that i as an alternative determined to teach him what's vital in life," the previous sports marketer told people in 2014.

So the next weekend, the family unit handmade 54 breakfast burritos of their kitchen at domestic and exceeded them out to people living on the streets in San Diego. "We brought 54 breakfast burritos with us, and it went amazing ly right now and the boys had such a very good time that they requested in the event that they may do it once more," Johnson says now. "It felt like punishment in the beginning when my dad advised me the concept," Alec defined in 2014.

"However to see human beings drowsing on the cold floor outdoor, it definitely touched me," he noted. "To realize how plenty they do not have, and the way lots we do. it be a massive a part of my life now." So, the neighborhood gathered once again right here Sunday to do it everywhere once again. What all started as a core neighborhood of Johnson, his son Alec, and Alec's pals has grown into a community of more than 600 volunteers who make and distribute a whole bunch of burritos.

"It teaches the children that you just at all times should appreciate everyone," says Ron, who has come to benefit from the burritos for 5 years. "I believe like homeless people get stereotyped as having a lot of issues, but if you go obtainable you see they're simply individuals who've had a hard flip of luck," adds a younger volunteer.

Johnson says he hopes that each weekend will be the community's ultimate – and that the metropolis's homeless will get the help they deserve to get ba ck on their feet. but except that happens, he, his family unit and an army of volunteers may be waking up at the crack of daybreak each Sunday to be sure that the city's homeless get a warm, nutritious meal. "Our intention really is to get americans off the streets, however until they are we wish to deliver them with a little food, a little hope and a bit dignity," he says.