A 12-year old boy gets the idea to start a Cub Scout pack for homeless boys.

Sweeney spent hours every week planning Cub Scout meetings; arranging hikes, field trips and guest speakers; recruiting volunteers; tracking his Cubs and making sure they had a ride to each week’s meeting. He lined up donors who provided uniforms and scout handbooks and made sure all the trips would be free.

"I like Greg because when I first came here, he showed me around, helped me," said 11-year-old Khayree Johnson, who has been scouting since he was 7.

When families had to move from one temporary home to the next, Sweeney helped carry boxes. When it was time for the boys to graduate to Boy Scouts, he lined up sponsors to defray the cost of new uniforms.

"If it wasn’t for [Greg] and the Scouts, I don’t know what we would have done," said Mary Malandruccolo of Claymont, who fell ill, fell behind in her rent payments and found herself living out of a car with her grandson, Anthony, then 10 years old. "It was so rough. I cried a lot."