Via Global Voices
All it took was one child to talk about his destroyed school in front of a camera: through the following months, thanks to Shawn Ahmed of the Uncultured Project and Nerdfighters, the world rallied through YouTube and raised enough money to rebuild the school.
Cyclon Sidr hit Bangladesh back in 2007: Shawn recorded the damage, shocked at so many children’s lives who were lost and then focused on a boy, Pidahouse, a survivor who took him around the town showing him the damage done to the school. After the video aired, the Nerdfighters, a community around the VlogBrothers YouTube channel helped the Uncultured Project raise money to help the boy. First raising enough to repair the roof and then, as more money came in, to rebuild, repaint the school and even get new desks. What makes it even more impressive is that those donations aren’t even tax-exempt since as Shawn writes in his site:
This isn’t a charity or NGO – this is just an experiment in charitable community. Because it’s not anything formal, donations are not tax-deductible.
Read the entire article here…. and I shall let the video do the rest of the talking.