(Yahoo) — PHOTO: Maryland high school students Michaela Hoenig, Mai Canning and Gabrielle Zwi, left to right, hold a planning session for the March for Our Lives. (Courtesy DC-Area Teens Action)
Nearly 300 students who will be among the thousands traveling to Washington, D.C., this weekend to rally for gun control do not have to worry about finding a hotel room in the nation’s capital thanks to a group of teenagers.
Students from Walter Johnson High School in Bethesda, Maryland, have organized a home-share network that has placed hundreds of students in the homes of their classmates’ families for free.
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“We want to get as many people to the march as possible to show politicians and corporations that if they won’t support us, we won’t support them,” one of the group’s organizers, Gabrielle Zwi, a 17-year-old senior, told ABC News. “The main barriers we saw were transportation and lodging.
Click to continue reading. By KATIE KINDELAN, Good Morning America – March 20, 2018