Some students from Florida travelled on a bus for hours to attend the rally in Washington. And, as CGTN's Nitza Soledad Perez explains, they have a different perspective on the march.

Many of them had never seen snow. Forty-four students from the Miami inner city, the poor neighborhoods of South Florida, made their way to Washington DC. Thirty-two hours on a bus, one stop in Atlanta and finally DC. I was part of that trip, as a witness to their participation at March For Our Lives, a national student protest inspired by the latest Florida high school shooting. We were all tired, but once we got to Washington the energy, erupted. They jammed, they protested and they tried to make themselves heard.

KAYLA WILLIAMS MIAMI STUDENT "I feel that we came all the way out here to say nothing. It hits me on my heart because I know because it's too many of us out here that had had too many brothers and sisters that have been killed. We have friends that have been killed. It's just a cycle of nothing being changed."

JANAI TENOR MIAMI STUDENT "We came all the way out here from Miami to put a real show, right? That's what we came here for. I came here for the kids and these are the kids that don't want to get shot. So why are we not on stage, why are we not showing the faces of who we are really doing this for?"

AHMAN MIAMI STUDENT "All I see is Caucasians. I don't see black people. They need to come to our area, we are from the urban, we are from the hood, the ghetto, this is everyday for us. This is not an epidemic no more. This is our culture. Everyone wants to make it feel like the statistics. This is what we live. We come in this world, knowing that is not my destiny and that we might not have it forever."

For them gun violence is a daily occurrence. According to the nation's health protection agency, black children are ten times more likely to get killed by guns than children of other races. Despite the obstacles, they say they have hope.

ZION COOPER 14-YEAR-OLD FRESHMAN "I'm going to be part of history right now, when my kids, my grandkids see this, in 30 years from now, they will say this is the youth that made the change for them."

NITZA SOLEDAD PEREZ WASHINGTON "Once the group returns to Florida, the students plan their own march in Miami. They tell me that they don't want celebrities, they don't care for the show. They just want the rest of society to understand them and help them bring about change. NPE, CGTN, Washington."