50 000 was the amount of money. I could convince one of my sponsors nordvpn to give me so i could give it away so this today is like a a direct action project. Direct action is my favorite way to give. That means you just give money directly to people rather than going through a charity which maybe takes a small percentage for its overhead, or anything like that.

You just just literally give money to people, but you have to be really thoughtful when finding people to give money to so i asked my friend mike to help me out. How are you doing man you've been good. I've been good man. We blindly asked people on social media, you know if they've been laid off from their job or if they were having a tough financial time, and we responded by saying that we wanted to give them a care package.

The package is all over here's some right here. This stuff is a commodity right here, it's a hot commodity. I tried to get um some mass. I couldn't get them all by today, so the idea here is that the the actual care package is more just an excuse for us to give the cash that's right.

Okay, what are we doing now, all right so um we have two people that are kind of close, hopefully, they'll want to share their stories with us and and they'll appreciate the care packages elijah you coming yes, now not everybody wanted to be on camera or to Share their stories, so we just we just sent them money, but some people did want to be on camera and did want to share their story and we're local mind. Just reading a little of what this this person said to you yeah, i can't work anymore and my fiance is the sole provider for us. On top of that, she's, the primary kick my primary caregiver with covet 19. Her pay was cut in half.

So so, like many we're struggling to pay the mortgage we're coming to visit in groceries now yeah, he does how's it going how you doing it's nice out today, right, i don't have my gloves on, but i've been spraying my hands. You know so now, before he was diagnosed with als a disease that took his ability to walk and cut his lifespan down to two to five years. He was an emt, a first responder we're also giving people just a thousand dollars cash. Oh no yeah and oh man now his wife there is the sole breadwinner, but because of uh coveted 19, her hours have been cut in half.

How is that how's that pay cut, impacting your ability to you know, pay the bills. Yeah definitely put the stress on everything just uh with mortgage and then just care down the road for me with als, it's kind of like that's one, more added pressure and stress to just think about he shared with us, the the story of when he learned he Had als, it was a reminder that everyone has a story. Everyone has struggles and perspective really helps you appreciate what good you have in life. Bye, guys best of luck to you like the fact that he has something like als and he's smiling and he's happy.

Would that make you feel like um? Well, it makes me feel grateful for what i have. We live in an apartment about 800 square foot, it's not much, but it's a safe place to lay our heads and i'm grateful for it, and i have my mom. That's depending on me for help. I filled out for unemployment, so i'm waiting on that, but i'm not giving up.

I have dreams that i will accomplish in my life mike and i are going around giving a thousand dollars cash. I was in it all started both. I had my dad my dad. He was my name's tony puerto rican from new york.

You know what i mean uh he was, he would have been 70 this year. You know um his birthday just passed actually but anyways um. I grew up with him. You know it was him with my mom.

I don't know why she was not out here, but it's a situation, but there's so much value in taking the time to listen to others. It's it's one thing to read a billboard that says we're all in this together, but to actually take the time to learn what a stranger's day-to-day is is to appreciate that your problems are no greater or less than anyone else's. Thank you. So um i haven't worked in a month um due to the cobit 19 pandemic, and it started with just a day at work as usual on march 13th, which was a friday i'll, never forget it, and i went from having a booked day to literally only servicing Two people and not going back to work - it's been tough um.

I live here with my parents and my four three siblings four of us. My parents have been working for anaheim area the corporation for about 30 years, and this is the first time that you know they've been out of work so right now, i have like no income at the moment, but my boyfriend has been helping me out, like with Buying me food and stuff, and so it's been trying to hang on to whatever we have right now, hey, i believe that everything happens for a reason. I believe that there is greatness dies days on earth ain't promised we just are living on broad time that they're still hoping nowhere. If we just come together, unifying, don't divide strength in numbers, love each other.

That's where our true power lies. I believe in la la message, from above uh stronger than the bullets in a barrel of a gun, gun beauty in the structure be proud of where you come from. Never let them see you down your journey only just begun, i believe in happiness happen. If you practice it activate your inner bliss, then destiny will manifest.

I believe in truth, so keep it g with what you say. If i believe in you, then will you promise to believe in me? Life could be heaven on earth as soon as you realize your worth live your life and you will find those dead minds that so uh. In the end i connected with about 20 people, some i connected with in person like you saw in this video some i connected with, like you know, on the phone, some just twitter dms, and then i cash at them a thousand bucks. The last 30 grand i connected with these awesome volunteers, out of the bay area they're doing something called like the 1k project, where they find families that are like about to lose their.

You know their way of life and they give them a thousand bucks a month. So i gave the other thirty thousand dollars to these volunteers, who are spreading it amongst a bunch of families that they met and they vetted, which is wonderful. If you're a rich person by the way, that's a great way to help people that are really in need and give money directly to them, um info on that is below and and then i do want to give a little bit more love to nordvpn um, the The sponsor the company that like gave me the cash to do all this super awesome of them uh to be hip to this um. If, if you don't use a vpn, you should you should use theirs, because they're cool uh link below for that.

But thank you again, nord. That was awesome. Okay, you know my my biggest takeaway from this whole endeavor is is just to be reminded how important it is to be nice to people everybody's dealing with something. So just just be nice, especially right now: okay, uh good news, so i sent this video to nordvpn for um just to like approve it before i sent it live and they they liked the video and so much so that they agreed to give me another.

20. 000, to give away nordvpn. Thank you, you guys rock and um. That's twenty thousand dollars! That's going to get to go to um a whole bunch, uh, more families that that could really use it.

It's great psyched, okay, bye for good.