What exactly am I doing?
Visit the history below to learn why I am doing this. My end goal and vision is to provide living necessities for those that do not have - specifically water and food. There are many good organizations out there that have laid streamlined processes for delivering food and water, but they often lack in the funds/money area. For example, I am in touch with KidsAgainstHunger on a regular basis and they have more volunteers to pack food than they have money to buy the grain products themselves. I aim to better that situation by putting my talents and abilities together and apply them to meeting the needs of others. The plan is to build software products, small or big, and sell them with 50% of the profits going to one of the non-profit partners on this site. Why only 50%? Because bad software doesn't sell. If a software developer is making money from something they created then they can spend time to enhance it. I plan on starting out by selling an "Enterprise" version of my own RPGMail tool, complete with a training kit for around $700. Then, when a sale of RPGMail Enterprise closes, $350 will go to either KidsAgainstHunger or WorldVision. KidsAgainstHunger can provide a very nutritious meal for $.23 which means $350 would produce around 1500 meals!
Why am I doing this?
A little history: A few years ago my Dad left our family in all-of-a-sudden fashion to pursue another woman. My Dad was pastor at the church group I attended and he was also one of my closest friends (outside of my wife, love ya babe). To put it short, he was my moral compass. When he left there was a mass amount of emotional and spiritual wreckage I had to deal with. I really didn't know what was truth at that point because everything Dad stood for he just threw out the window. Thus started the process of slowly rebuilding and testing everything I believed to be true in this world. One of the many truths I have discovered is that I cannot live for myself anymore. I don't know why, but spending $1,000 on a new TV vs. giving that same dollar amount to KidsAgainstHunger yields a COMPLETELY different result in me as a person. The former is near immediately replaced with the want for more (i.e. I am never content), and the latter gives me peace and rest. Selfish of me to give to get a compassion high? Maybe. But it's where I am at and it's what I can do to better the world I live in. I have found that it is hard to adhere to this practice in everyday life when I am so separated from those I am trying to help. I do hope that sometime in the coming years I can visit one of the impoverished nations.
During the process of rebuilding myself I learned the reality of us as humans being multi-dimensional - specifically, that we are spiritual and emotional beings. It is for that reason I have selected organizations that focus not only on giving clean water and food but also feed the spiritual side. Specifically, I believe what Jesus taught in the bible (no, not the American Jesus) is how we should conduct our lives and is what people need. James 1:27 is a verse I dwell on.
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