WE HAVE 10 DAYS TO GET A MILLION DOLLAR$

this this is the story of what can happen when the power of social media is leveraged for something [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] good I just wanted say thanks so this all started yesterday last night when I saw the tweet from Jerome Jerome's a good friend of mine he's like a big social media guy but he's someone who's really concentrated his efforts in social media towards helping others what Drome is talking about here is the current humanitarian crisis taking place in Somalia which isn't reported on that well here in the States but it it is a

uh it's a famine that's been brought on by a drought and a number of other geopolitical issues but it's affecting over 6 million people in Somalia alone so he tweeted that video he directed it at Turkish Airlines specifically cuz they're the only airline that flies to Somalia and and then it started to pick up traction and but uh my friend Jerome jar brought this to my attention that he thinks we can all help by getting an airplane filled with food and water to Somalia we can't let this happen we have to help these people use

this hashtag get it trending get Turkish Airlines attention and and quickly this started to gain traction it started to become bigger than just Jerome here you are this is the origin story this is how this happen Okay Friday night at 8:00 p.m. that's when I was on on front of the computer and I saw horrible fing in in Somalia I Googled how to get a flight so toishan is the only Airlines going there I decided okay we have to do something we have to try to get this flight and fill it with food so I

text Ben hey Ben do you see what's happening in Somalia millions of people are about to die from famine just like in 200 11 and this is Ben Stiller the famous actor uh-huh the original one we're launching the love Army now we're going to publicly talk sh to provide a flight then we're going to ask food companies and people to donate food and we're literally going to fly food in water now it's go time do you guys want to document it yes he just said yes and the next day he was here so that was

an easy yes for sure and that's how all of this came together I didn't think you'd actually do [Laughter] it bring up a little bit of light all right Jerome onea W yeah never won never one tell me what's going on give me the full give us the full update okay here's what's going on um about 5 days ago I saw an article online about what's going on in Somalia and I wasn't aware I think media barely talked about it and I saw there is there only one airline that goes there it's Turkish Airlines and

so I thought okay why don't we ask turkey shance if we can use that flight and fill it with food and bring bring some help there do you feel like you're bullying Turkish abolutely not I feel like we are getting them an opportunity to do something amazing you don't feel like you're shaming them into helping no we're like do you want to help they can say yes or no so we have a call with them at 1:00 p.m. time minutes no no in 5 minutes sorry in 5 minutes we have a call with them that's

where you're going to find out if they're going to help with this campaign or not with with the head of communications and everything this still tell you do what you can watch it [Music] yesterday there Time game on it it's ready hello hello hey how are you today hello yes okay J yes I'm here with Chaka and W and Ben and everybody is here okay so this phone call here is the official call where hang hang on guys where they're finding out from Turkish Airlines if they can actually use their Caro planes to bring food

and Rel and supplies to Somalia um so yesterday we were told um that on so there's this big 60 ton cargo flight and then after that as long as we bring food you guys will make room right somehow no matter if it doesn't really matter if it's a white body narrow body as long as you know we find Space okay okay thank you thank you bye bye bye thank you guys what just happened what happened we have a Caro flight 60 tons 60 tons cargo flight to fill with food for Monday 27 that will go

from Istanbul to Somalia and then we have an extra 40 140 tons that we can uh use of this space for the next six months this is incredible all right if you didn't catch what just happened Turkish Airlines just agreed to fill up an entire cargo plane with 60 tons that's 120,000 lb of food and relief to go to Somalia they also just contributed another unless I'm saying this wrong I think it's another 140 tons that they would put in their other planes that like extra space to go to Somalia this thing just got real

like I just I sat there I witnessed it there was an idea and then a tweet and then the Tweet turned into a movement which became something else that has now become action is this good yeah I I I that's fantastic very important to recognize here how big of a deal it is for Turkish Airlines to have done this uh this isn't a commercial or anything for Turkish Airlines they just stepped up and gave no idea what the cost could be that is a tremendous amount of resources to give an entire cargo plane and then

plane after plane with extra cargo space to bring relief and for me personally look I retweeted it yesterday when I saw Jerome was doing this but right there when this had happened these guys did all the heavy lifting they did the hard work I offered to be a part of the fundraising so what's taking place now is there's a GoFundMe account that's linked below where they're trying we are trying to raise all the money to pay for all the supplies and infrastructure to bring all that food to Somalia Ben Stiller is letting us use his

charity the Stiller foundation so all donations are tax deductible and will be managed appropriately you'll be able to see and track everything donate if you can I know there's like a lot of bad things going on in the world right now there's a lot of things locally of concern but it's but it's it's hard to imagine a greater priority than you know millions of people starving to death and knowing that a couple bucks could impact that in a positive way and then also with some truth which is the fact that uh you know there are

millions of people who are are starving and struggling because of uh this drought because of this famine not just in Somalia but in Ethiopia and Kenya South Sudan and Sudan and Uganda um these planes and all this effort and all this energy that's being made by this little campaign is a drop in the Hat but I think a very important first step is one of awareness which this seems like a very good first step towards but uh there's some links below if you want to understand more of what's happening there uh I also linked below

the American Refugee committee which you can also give money to they're doing work all over Eastern Africa I'll send this with like this cool video that Turkish Airlines sent us uh thank you everyone for watching thank you even more to people who contribute and thanks especially to Turkish Airlines for for for doing this as the only airline that connects Somalia to the world will be more than happy to deliver your love and assistance to Somalia on your behalf as a Turkish alons family we're proud to be a part of this great cause thank you come

on I just wanted to say thanks