It's been a few years since I founded GC, and to this day I get emails from people who say, "I'd like to do something, but what can one person do? Even if I could get the time off I wouldn't have an idea of where to start." Well, THAT is precisely the reason I'm doing it...

While large organizations like the Red Cross or UNHCR have the ability to address issues on a mass scale, I'm just one guy helping where I can, and trying to teach others how to do the same. I call my style of work 'Guerrilla Aid' - "the unconventional means with which a small group of volunteers use mobile tactics to combat a larger, less mobile, formal issue or problem."

I've learned some tricks of the trade so to speak, and I want to provide the tools and a template for anyone to feel empowered to help no matter where they are, how much money they have, or how long they have in a destination.

I'll work in countries I've never been to (along with a few that I know) both in the developed and third world, answering any questions or concerns about volunteering in any region as I go. Sounds intense, but it's really just me going out and trying to get something done.

HOW I WORK...
Just me, on the ground, trying to make a difference...

While on the ground, I send videos and requests of specific problems I'm trying to address. For example, I shot this video on the Thai/Burmese border trying to raise money to get kids into school and off the street in Cambodia. For the results of that project CLICK HERE.

The week after I shot that video, I was in Cambodia establishing the school program and began working with the leader of a local NGO to identify families with specific needs to address. He asked each family for ideas of how we could help them, and the one that became very dear to me was a single mother with nine children in her care. Her struggles were overwhelming - she lived in a village far out of town so factory jobs were non-existant, had children that she couldn't afford to take care of (or send to school), and she had a daughter with cerebral palsy.

While trying to figure out how to help, we realized that there wasn't a market in her village so decided to build one in her front yard. It was completely stocked it with necessary supplies, and by so doing provided her with her own (and now very successful) business. A few days labor and a couple hundred dollars took an impoverished family to middle class in three days.

This is how I see world aid, and that is how I work... Finding locals to help one family at a time and no handouts - just creating specific opportunities to empower them to help themselves.

For my approach to community projects, CLICK HERE and read about the "Cows for Kenya" program.