CCL-Kids is the brain child of Kriti Gupta, started by her when she was a 9th grader at Upper Saint Clair High School, Pittsburgh. While in 7th grade, she participated in a project on “Homelessness in America”, which greatly inspired her to start her own non profit company to mitigate homelessness in America. She attributes this inspiration to Mr. Bowers, her social studies teacher, who helped her not only with the project but helped her create a vision to address educational needs for homeless children. Ever since its inception, ccl-kids has done several volunteer projects to help homeless kids in and around the Pittsburgh Area.