Entrepreneur Buys Motel. But What He Converts It Into Leaves THOUSANDS Of Veterans Speechless.

Akash Kalia was just 21 years old when he decided to drop out of school at the University of Oregon for an astounding reason. Kalia’s parents were losing their motel business in Santa Rosa, CA, and turned to their son in desperate need of help.

The young entrepreneur was used to overcoming life’s challenges. Kalia had brain surgery at age 17 due to a birth defect, a life-changing moment that he described as the “best thing that ever happened” to him. The struggle taught him not to take life for granted, and was the catalyst that thrust him into adulthood.

When Kalia was just 12 years old, he suffered a paintball injury to the eye, and he used the settlement money to purchase the ailing motel from his parents. He then worked to convert the 104-room facility into housing for chronically homeless people and veterans, the first such center in the nation to house veterans and homeless people under the same roof.