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My name is Ray Wright.
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I'm the pit crew coach at Richard Childress Racing.
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I was born in Maryland,
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St. Mary's County.
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A little county in Maryland.
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And I remember when I was in third grade,
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we went on a field trip.
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We went to the Smithsonian.
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I remember we came out from the Smithsonian
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and it was lunch time.
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I remember so vividly
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as I was eating a peanut butter sandwich
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and I got about three quarters of the way done
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and I tossed it away.
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And I remember this guy walking up to the trash can
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and I saw him pull out my bag and then he saw my sandwich
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and he started eating it.
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I asked my mom, I was like,
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"what's this guy doing?
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"why is he going through the trash?"
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And she was like, "he doesn't have food.
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That's how he gets his food."
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Ever since that day, I think it's that notion
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that I'm the same as that guy.
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There's no reason that he should have to go through
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trash cans and eat.
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And that's really where this comes from.
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(children talking)
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Welcome to the 2016 Kids Pit Stops for Hope shootout
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to end child poverty.
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(applause)
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Yeah!
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(clapping)
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Pit Stops for Hope is people that take time
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out of what they're doing to help other people,
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just trying to make a difference in somebody else's life.
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Everything's 100% donation, guys.
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[Female Volunteer] At each of the 36 events,
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we will sell items.
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The NASCAR fans, they're our big donors.
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That's how we run Pit Stops for Hope.
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We sell lug nuts, old pit crew gloves, old pit crew shirts,
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hats and they give us donations.
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They believe in what we do.
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That's what makes this special for us.
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Everything that they have going on on race day,
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to be able to pull off also raising money is amazing.
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Pit Stops for Hope presented us with a check for $5,000 to
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support our Boys & Girls Club's programs.
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Ray donated over $100,000 total combined for
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just the little bit they've been in existence...
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Just at Second Harvest, not to the Salvation Army,
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to everything else that he's doing.
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Just to Second Harvest and that's allowed us to
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provide 700,000 meals to those North Carolinans
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that are in need.
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And Salvation Army's brought out 100 kids
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and these kids get to enjoy bounce houses,
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free food, clowns, mimes and balloon twists
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and all that stuff.
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They get to kind of have a day,
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kind of out of reality, you know?
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Ray is going out into the community and finding
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needs and meeting those needs and organizing events,
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and huge events.
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Pit Stops for Hope!
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(cheering)
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A lot of these kids, they don't have any say
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in how they're being brought up, they're living conditions,
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I mean, they're innocent bystanders to a tough beginning.
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You want a rematch this time?
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Go ahead, go.
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I'll let you shoot first this time.
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Go.
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He's kind of like a Santa Clause year round.
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He makes our wish list shorter,
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so he provides us with school supplies
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and he gave us a refrigerator for our food pantry.
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I just appreciate the work that he does
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because his impact makes a difference in our community.
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It is amazing that he has raised that much money.
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We don't have the corporate backing that a lot
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of charities do, but what we've been able to do,
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I think is remarkable.
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It's taken that special type of person of Ray to
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see that vision and go.
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I mean, he got Pit Stops for Hope on the race car.
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Gotta say, great job by Ray
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for the Pit Stops for Hope car.
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Let me tell you something, Ray Wright,
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the man that runs this organization,
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he is an absolute pit bull.
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Ray Wright does not quit.
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He goes for one thing and he gets all of it.
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We've done so much with so little,
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but I feel like we've been really successful.
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I want to stay on that path.
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I want to continue to get new schools.
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I want to continue to promote better education.
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His vision and his drive is truly coming,
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not from his head, but from his heart.
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Ray sent a check to my son's first grade teacher.
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Sent her a check for $552 just to buy supplies
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in her classroom.
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He understands that life is not just about taking
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care of ourselves,
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but it's about taking care of the people around us
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and we're just so grateful for everything that he's done
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for us.
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It's really simple why I do this,
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why everybody does it.
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Because everybody deserves an opportunity to succeed
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and that's it.
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(children screaming)