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おはようニッポン，ではなくてGood Morning Americanからのちょっといい話。本筋とは離れますが，ここのUberとはなんでしょうか。Greenさん，教えてください。（Astroriver）

Flood of Donations for Michigan Man James Robertson With 21-Mile Walk to Work

Evan Leedy, a 19-year-old Detroit college student, was on Facebook Sunday morning when he read a story about James Robertson, a 56-year-old factory worker who walks 21 miles each day to and from his job in Rochester Hills, Michigan.

“What he walks is like me walking to work every day and I honestly couldn’t believe that,” Leedy told ABC News. “I thought to myself, ‘What would I do if my car broke down?,’ and I thought, ‘I have my parents and I have money to get an Uber.’”

“This guy doesn’t have that and he didn’t quit,” Leedy said.

After reading the Detroit Free Press story on Robertson, Leedy saw in the comments that people were looking for a way to help so he started a GoFundMe page for Robertson, a complete stranger to him, within minutes of finishing the story.

“I initially set the goal for $5,000 just to get him something, bus fares and taxi rides,” Leedy said. “I went to go get ready and an hour later we had $2,000 donated already.

“I bumped it up to $10,000 and within four hours we had over $10,000,” he said. “I bumped it up again and by the end of the day we had over $30,000 and now it’s up to over $50,000.”

http://abcnews.go.com/US/flood-donations-michigan-man-james-robertson-21-mile/story?id=28670981