Steemit - Finally Some Humanity

Usually on #grumpymonday , no, that's not a real tag yet but it ought to be, I bemoan the fact that this wonderful platform has too much 'look at me' and not enough 'how are you?'. This still holds true and I'll come to that later BUT, there is a light at the end of the hyperloop...I've just come across a community and organisation that actually exists to help other people. Yesss radical isn't it? I've just read how they sent 70SBD directly to an orphanage in Ghana to buy books and pencils for the kids.

'What?', I hear you cry. "Real money? they didn't just pray for them or tell them that they were in their thoughts?".
No, they sent them real, direct help in cash.

Now we're all aware of these huge charitable organisations, or NGO's that rush into war zones or earthquakes or start massive multi-million dollar irrigation schemes..yes the same ones that also organise sex parties and pay their top execs hundreds of grand a year, those ones, and to be fair, they do have their place but direct action giving for me is real grassroots humanitarianism, helping people directly. Making a huge difference to a human's life for a very tiny amount of money in as fast a time as possible. If you see someone who needs help now. You help them. How cool is that?

Allow me to introduce @sircork who runs a community here called @youarehope and they organise direct action giving for people and organisations all over the world such as the Ghanaian Orphanage run by @kofpato. At this point, I'll also give a shout out to @maverickinvictus and his @giftinkindph organisation he's just started. Another top member and Steem legend in the making.

So, back to Ghana for a second. Here is the link to their dtube video they created to garner support. Notice how it made all of $12.41?

Now look at this video of a new member who has posted 4 videos, including one where she makes her own version of Egg McMuffins and another where she tells us there needs to be more women into crypto...kerching! £1200....

See where I'm going with this? Yup, straight back to #grumpymonday, but on a thursday! Them bairns in Ghana could have millions of coloured pencils and a couple of laptops for that sort of coin, and why did this new lady with the unoriginal badly written dross end up trending and earning the GNP of a small pacific island in just 4 posts ?
Who knows ? I mean seriously, another attractive young white girl cooking eggs....why would @dtube give her 4 huge upvotes ? Obviously the artistic and cutting-edge content I assume, in a similar fashion to that Korean girl who likes taking pics of tourist attractions and the lady who likes to surf who gets a lot of support from certain whales. I wonder if they could help out a worthy cause?

Anyway, how can we all support communities like @youarehope ? Go there, read, learn and upvote. That's not difficult, or if you can spare a couple hundredths of an sbd, make a little donation. This is where the blockchain comes into its own. There will be no middleman slicing his cut. The money goes directly where it should and as for a final bit of context; if you gave a 0.10 upvote....you've not actually done much physically but you've put a pencil into a kids hand and a huge smile on his or her face......how good is that? :-)

Thanks for dropping by. Your Upvotes and Resteems are gratefully received but your comments and engagement are truly appreciated. Let's keep up the debate. Thank you

@nathen007

Life's not about the hustle. It's all about the humanity