Birmingham 4-Year-Old Helping Homeless

BIRMINGHAM, AL - A 4-year-old boy from Birmingham is doing his part to feed the homeless. Austin Perine has been offering sandwiches to homeless people throughout the city through a "caped crusade" he describes as "the highlight of his life."

Perine was featured on CBS news over the weekend donning a cape as he became his alter-ego, "President Austin" and giving out chicken sandwiches to homeless people in Birmingham. The report by CBS says the crusade began when Perine and his father were watching a TV show about pandas. It showed a mama panda abandoning a baby, and TJ told his son the cub was now homeless.

"He says, 'What's homeless?' I said, 'It's when you don't have a home and sometimes you don't have mom or dad around,'" said TJ Perine, Austin's father.

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Austin calls his project the "Show Love" campaign, and T.J. has started a GoFundMe page to help his son continue his philanthropy.

"Austin's show love project is a nonprofit movement that will involve traveling and fighting hunger and establishing a facility that will help with food, toiletries, drug rehabilitation and shelter integration," T.J. says on the page. "As you know, Austin is only 4 so I will be handling your pledges with care to ensure that they are put to use efficiently and effectively."

Photo from GoFundMe

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