[Applause]
thank you every single one of us is
blessed blessed beyond measure we have
everything at our fingertips we have the
opportunity to buy whatever we want the
best home the best cars the best clothes
or the best phones now the interesting
thing about having this opportunity is
we also have judgement and comparison
now with comparison is that we compare
our entire life to other people’s
highlight reels on social media with
judgment we judge what other people have
so for instance that person might be
happy because he has a new car well
they’re really successful because
they’ve got a new house but we do a
really odd thing as well we judge people
based on what we think they should have
like why does that refugee have a mobile
phone as a live-streaming influencer
I’ve built an amazingly powerful
community who support me in many things
I do and decided to go and help with the
refugee crisis last year in February I
booked two months off sorry two weeks
off to go to lesbos in Greece it was an
insane journey because I had no idea
what I was doing and I wanted to use my
live-streaming influence to showcase
exactly what was going on on the ground
to amplify that the news the negativity
what was happening but sure we could
showcase it in a positive manner I
remember a guy flight from Birmingham
International directly to lesbos but
before you do you have to stop our
Athens
so was that Athens Airport about six
o’clock in the morning and I decided to
do a livestream and I was sharing
people’s poetry refugees poetry that
they had written while they were in
camps and I remember there’s about 70
people watching at that time and this
one guy jumped into the broadcast and he
was angry
he was swearing he was abusive he was
saying go back home why are you helping
refugees there this is now I’m quite
patient with trolls so I didn’t block
this individual by asked him I go you’re
angry let’s tell us why are you angry so
I carried on talking like I run sharing
this poetry about 15 minutes later
randomly he popped in and said my
brother was blown up in Afghanistan
right this context even though I
disagree and everyone watching disagree
with what he was saying and how he was
saying it we aligned with him there was
sympathy and we started to give him
advice on why you shouldn’t be acting
like that would you brother be proud of
you who served the way you’re acting
anyway there was a lot of people
watching for about 80 people at that
time and I remember 45 minutes into it
was about an hour and a half broadcast I
received a notification at the top of my
phone saying this person has donated 200
pounds to now humanity the person who
donated 200 pounds was a troll in the
broadcast he went from a troll hatin to
being to sharing why he was angry having
a sympathetic ear to support it in one
broadcast and that was an hour and a
half so just before I even started my
journey with refugees I realized that
this is the right platform to use now
the whole refugee crisis has been insane
I was in lesbos in Greece and myself and
a team when around lesbos I did
everything from night from night rescues
where we would rescue people off a boat
and grab them from their lifejackets
onto the island I would have screaming
mothers throwing their child at me to
save them so they didn’t get drowned we
visited refugee camps we went to actual
graveyards of unmarked graves of
children who had drowned before they had
reached the shore and then we went to a
lifejacket graveyard and a lifejacket
graveyard is basically over a hundred
thousand life jackets in the northern
part of lesbos just sitting there so as
I visited what you can notice with this
photograph behind me is I’m actually sat
in the middle on top of these life
jackets with
another influencer from Canada all these
life jackets have come through all these
refugees have come through lesbos from
various countries and this is part of
their journey when asking these refugees
why why did they hold on to these life
jackets because most more fake they said
it was their sense of hope for now it
was their home a life jacket
so from lesbos we went to Calais jungle
now Calais jungle is very very
interesting people they are very
negative the hostile they don’t like
being spoken to they don’t want their
photograph taken so I had to approach
this very road differently we went with
a team
now now humanity works with social media
influences to do social good the reason
why they were so negative now I wanted
to just imagine this for a second
imagine leaving your home everything
that you’ve earned your social life your
cars your businesses leaving them
because your next-door neighbor’s home
is being bombed you get smuggled into
another country have no idea what you
have to do where you have to go but you
pay a lot of money to a random person
who gives you a place on a boat and a
lifejacket which you probably know is
fake you get shoved into a small boat
which is meant to fit five people
comfortably but you’re shoved in with 50
other people you go over a six mile
ocean avoiding the coast guards and the
police and you enter a brand new island
but you agree to with smiles and people
who are putting blankets over view like
so giving you warm food and then you’re
registered and then you start your
journey so these individuals who left
their homes started their journey go
through country to country faced with
face racial abuse slurs people spitting
at them throwing stuff at them and then
by the time they get to let’s say the
Calais jungle just before they get to
the end goal they’re shoved in this
muddy legal camp rise built on modern
and son I imagine making a home for your
family our makeshift rubbish wood scraps
of metal plastic bags it’s probably no
bigger than this matter I’m standing on
right now but it’s your home now imagine
a riot police burning that home down a
thousands of people that was the exact
same process that happened every single
time they arrived to one of the islands
in Greece to the Calais jungle I
remember when I arrived in Calais I was
literally driving off the ferry and a
contact rang me said get to the Calais
jungle they’re burning homes down I had
never even been through the first time I
went I had no idea where the Calais
jungle was it’s not like a sign posted
Calais jungle this way right I had to
figure out where it was on the map so
three of us in the car who had a
suitcase it we had stuff that we wanted
to give out so we arrived we managed to
find out where the Calais jungle was we
arrived and we walked into the jungle
and we were greeted by vans a riot
police riot police dressed in very scary
uniforms literally burning people’s
homes down and I decided to do a video
recording myself in the moment and I
just want to show you a clip by recorded
just as they were burning homes down
Kyle a refugee camp the circle jungle
we’re surrounded by an area which has
been demolished it destroyed burnt why
the riot case which is also run by the
local government and surrounded by us we
can see loads of leftovers from people
who have pictured death their homes
they’ve run away from their makeshift
homes what we’re so surprising earlier
is that you’ve had toys everywhere and
some of these people who just run so
quickly
and in these photographs you’ll actually
see close nurseries that we’ve been that
were burned down as well and like here
so you can understand how people in the
Calais jungle are very very negative
because they came with hope and they
were clutching onto hope but every time
they tried to build something for their
family their wife their children it
would be burnt down but through
persistence they would build it again I
met this individual Jamal and Jamal was
the guy from Iran
this guy was an amazing guy we got on so
well but we because we had something in
common
this guy he was in a refugee camp who
had nothing to his name apart from his
family
we got unwell because we spoke about
cars he loved cars and so did I and when
we started to speak we found out more
information about him this guy was the
director of an IT company he had an old
Ferrari that he would polish every
single day he had motorbikes head of
social life and now he had nothing
he built a makeshift home and then he
built it again because it was burnt down
and he had physical scars I remember the
third day I went to the Calais jungle
and we met our volunteer van a volunteer
truck and he was so happy with the
conversations that we were having he
invited me back to his house for tea now
in a lot of coaches teas are very
powerful things very important thing
when somebody invites you over for tea
it’s a sign of respect so I was more
than happy to do so so I walked with him
through the Calais jungle going past
loads of different people from different
countries it’s about five minute walk
and I remember him welcoming me to his
home and I froze I stood there thinking
is this your home the first judgment
crossed my mind because I judged this
individual based on his home and their
homes our shacks they’ve made our scraps
of wood but like I said they had no
bigger than this but they an entire
family would leave live in there so
remember walking into this home there
was a very interesting smell remember
there’s no natural drainage in the
Calais jungle so you can understand what
kind of smell I’m talking about
by a walked in and his wife was Jamal’s
wife was cooking making tea and the tea
that they have is very sweet
I mean immense my sugar in their sweets
I was sleeping very slowly but the the
sweet smell masked the other smell and
his two daughters were playing with
broken dolls on the floor I sat down on
a freezing cold plastic chair and he
started to tell his story but he was
asking me about my story as well
why I do why I did why I came out here
as we were talking and his daughters
came closer to me because they were more
they were more friendly more open one of
the daughters handed me a doll and I
looked at the door and it was like a
doll from a horror movie
there’s parts missing it was a scary
doll but they were so happy because they
had a doll to play with it was their
childhood and the more he smokes more
his wife shared his story their stories
all of a sudden this home this tiny
Shack that I was staying in crammed in
with her family his family changed
something happened to me because all of
a sudden I wasn’t sat on a cold plastic
chair I was sat on a comfortable sofa
there was a lush coffee on the floor
artwork adorned on the walls there was a
chandelier hanging from the ceiling it
was his love for his family that
completely transformed this home and I
understood from his point of view why he
kept building this home made out of
rubbish and I asked him I said Jamal
what’s one thing that you’ve learned
from this journey sounds it sounded like
you had an amazing life what have you
learned and he said you know what when I
first starts first started my journey I
was angry I was angry because I had
spent ages building my business my
social life my house I was polishing my
car every day because I spent time on
things that did not matter and I was
angry at my wife and my kids because I
thought had I lost everything but in
fact I still have everything they’re
right here the thing about Jamal story
is it resonates with every single one of
us because helping humanity helping your
neighbor is amazing I don’t know a lot
of you guys are sitting there thinking
amory that’s a brilliant story fantastic
well
but I can’t jump on a plane and help a
stranger you’d be surprised how easy is
however I’m not really fussed if you do
that because it doesn’t start from there
it doesn’t even start from helping a
homeless person in your own city it
doesn’t start with helping your
next-door neighbor or having someone
cross the road because it starts with
you every single one of you the question
I get asked a lot is do you want to
change your world that’s great we want
to change our world is our planet it was
at home we want to change its world but
how can we really change your world if
you can’t change our home which is here
the thing about kindness and love it’s a
very very powerful thing and we can
pretend to be kind to one another we can
pretend to show love to one another but
if you are staring in front of the
mirror and you see your reflection
staring back at yourself and the first
thing that crosses your mind is you’re
fat you’re ugly you’re skinny you don’t
deserve that promotion you aren’t worth
anything then are you really being kind
to yourself the kindness that you share
with other people is it genuine or is it
just pretend or fake like we are on
social media the thing about social
media is allows us to compare ourselves
a lot with other people the thing about
social media is it also teaches you so
much about how other people are living
now one thing about now Humanity is I
want you to help children a lot so we
did amazing things we helped raise
thousands of pounds were money of to
raise coloring books and pens pencils
and packs and some free goods for the
children in the camps and there’s a
video that I want to show you about what
we did in the Dunkirk refugee camp
[Music]
you can learn a lot from children these
children are way more powerful than we
will ever be what they’ve gone through I
could never imagine but the thing is
that they’ve lost their child or they’re
losing their childhood
so just by reaching out to my live
streaming audience I just said to them I
said guys look I am walking the walk
right invest raise money and we will
actually do what I say so we actually
got loads of packs of these and we gave
them to all the kids in the Calais
jungle in the Dunkirk Jung refugee camp
and also in Berlin it was hugely
powerful but again if we truly want to
make a difference if we truly want to be
kind we truly want to spread that love
it starts with you it’s simple thank you
[Applause]
thank you every single one of us is
blessed blessed beyond measure we have
everything at our fingertips we have the
opportunity to buy whatever we want the
best home the best cars the best clothes
or the best phones now the interesting
thing about having this opportunity is
we also have judgement and comparison
now with comparison is that we compare
our entire life to other people’s
highlight reels on social media with
judgment we judge what other people have
so for instance that person might be
happy because he has a new car well
they’re really successful because
they’ve got a new house but we do a
really odd thing as well we judge people
based on what we think they should have
like why does that refugee have a mobile
phone as a live-streaming influencer
I’ve built an amazingly powerful
community who support me in many things
I do and decided to go and help with the
refugee crisis last year in February I
booked two months off sorry two weeks
off to go to lesbos in Greece it was an
insane journey because I had no idea
what I was doing and I wanted to use my
live-streaming influence to showcase
exactly what was going on on the ground
to amplify that the news the negativity
what was happening but sure we could
showcase it in a positive manner I
remember a guy flight from Birmingham
International directly to lesbos but
before you do you have to stop our
Athens
so was that Athens Airport about six
o’clock in the morning and I decided to
do a livestream and I was sharing
people’s poetry refugees poetry that
they had written while they were in
camps and I remember there’s about 70
people watching at that time and this
one guy jumped into the broadcast and he
was angry
he was swearing he was abusive he was
saying go back home why are you helping
refugees there this is now I’m quite
patient with trolls so I didn’t block
this individual by asked him I go you’re
angry let’s tell us why are you angry so
I carried on talking like I run sharing
this poetry about 15 minutes later
randomly he popped in and said my
brother was blown up in Afghanistan
right this context even though I
disagree and everyone watching disagree
with what he was saying and how he was
saying it we aligned with him there was
sympathy and we started to give him
advice on why you shouldn’t be acting
like that would you brother be proud of
you who served the way you’re acting
anyway there was a lot of people
watching for about 80 people at that
time and I remember 45 minutes into it
was about an hour and a half broadcast I
received a notification at the top of my
phone saying this person has donated 200
pounds to now humanity the person who
donated 200 pounds was a troll in the
broadcast he went from a troll hatin to
being to sharing why he was angry having
a sympathetic ear to support it in one
broadcast and that was an hour and a
half so just before I even started my
journey with refugees I realized that
this is the right platform to use now
the whole refugee crisis has been insane
I was in lesbos in Greece and myself and
a team when around lesbos I did
everything from night from night rescues
where we would rescue people off a boat
and grab them from their lifejackets
onto the island I would have screaming
mothers throwing their child at me to
save them so they didn’t get drowned we
visited refugee camps we went to actual
graveyards of unmarked graves of
children who had drowned before they had
reached the shore and then we went to a
lifejacket graveyard and a lifejacket
graveyard is basically over a hundred
thousand life jackets in the northern
part of lesbos just sitting there so as
I visited what you can notice with this
photograph behind me is I’m actually sat
in the middle on top of these life
jackets with
another influencer from Canada all these
life jackets have come through all these
refugees have come through lesbos from
various countries and this is part of
their journey when asking these refugees
why why did they hold on to these life
jackets because most more fake they said
it was their sense of hope for now it
was their home a life jacket
so from lesbos we went to Calais jungle
now Calais jungle is very very
interesting people they are very
negative the hostile they don’t like
being spoken to they don’t want their
photograph taken so I had to approach
this very road differently we went with
a team
now now humanity works with social media
influences to do social good the reason
why they were so negative now I wanted
to just imagine this for a second
imagine leaving your home everything
that you’ve earned your social life your
cars your businesses leaving them
because your next-door neighbor’s home
is being bombed you get smuggled into
another country have no idea what you
have to do where you have to go but you
pay a lot of money to a random person
who gives you a place on a boat and a
lifejacket which you probably know is
fake you get shoved into a small boat
which is meant to fit five people
comfortably but you’re shoved in with 50
other people you go over a six mile
ocean avoiding the coast guards and the
police and you enter a brand new island
but you agree to with smiles and people
who are putting blankets over view like
so giving you warm food and then you’re
registered and then you start your
journey so these individuals who left
their homes started their journey go
through country to country faced with
face racial abuse slurs people spitting
at them throwing stuff at them and then
by the time they get to let’s say the
Calais jungle just before they get to
the end goal they’re shoved in this
muddy legal camp rise built on modern
and son I imagine making a home for your
family our makeshift rubbish wood scraps
of metal plastic bags it’s probably no
bigger than this matter I’m standing on
right now but it’s your home now imagine
a riot police burning that home down a
thousands of people that was the exact
same process that happened every single
time they arrived to one of the islands
in Greece to the Calais jungle I
remember when I arrived in Calais I was
literally driving off the ferry and a
contact rang me said get to the Calais
jungle they’re burning homes down I had
never even been through the first time I
went I had no idea where the Calais
jungle was it’s not like a sign posted
Calais jungle this way right I had to
figure out where it was on the map so
three of us in the car who had a
suitcase it we had stuff that we wanted
to give out so we arrived we managed to
find out where the Calais jungle was we
arrived and we walked into the jungle
and we were greeted by vans a riot
police riot police dressed in very scary
uniforms literally burning people’s
homes down and I decided to do a video
recording myself in the moment and I
just want to show you a clip by recorded
just as they were burning homes down
Kyle a refugee camp the circle jungle
we’re surrounded by an area which has
been demolished it destroyed burnt why
the riot case which is also run by the
local government and surrounded by us we
can see loads of leftovers from people
who have pictured death their homes
they’ve run away from their makeshift
homes what we’re so surprising earlier
is that you’ve had toys everywhere and
some of these people who just run so
quickly
and in these photographs you’ll actually
see close nurseries that we’ve been that
were burned down as well and like here
so you can understand how people in the
Calais jungle are very very negative
because they came with hope and they
were clutching onto hope but every time
they tried to build something for their
family their wife their children it
would be burnt down but through
persistence they would build it again I
met this individual Jamal and Jamal was
the guy from Iran
this guy was an amazing guy we got on so
well but we because we had something in
common
this guy he was in a refugee camp who
had nothing to his name apart from his
family
we got unwell because we spoke about
cars he loved cars and so did I and when
we started to speak we found out more
information about him this guy was the
director of an IT company he had an old
Ferrari that he would polish every
single day he had motorbikes head of
social life and now he had nothing
he built a makeshift home and then he
built it again because it was burnt down
and he had physical scars I remember the
third day I went to the Calais jungle
and we met our volunteer van a volunteer
truck and he was so happy with the
conversations that we were having he
invited me back to his house for tea now
in a lot of coaches teas are very
powerful things very important thing
when somebody invites you over for tea
it’s a sign of respect so I was more
than happy to do so so I walked with him
through the Calais jungle going past
loads of different people from different
countries it’s about five minute walk
and I remember him welcoming me to his
home and I froze I stood there thinking
is this your home the first judgment
crossed my mind because I judged this
individual based on his home and their
homes our shacks they’ve made our scraps
of wood but like I said they had no
bigger than this but they an entire
family would leave live in there so
remember walking into this home there
was a very interesting smell remember
there’s no natural drainage in the
Calais jungle so you can understand what
kind of smell I’m talking about
by a walked in and his wife was Jamal’s
wife was cooking making tea and the tea
that they have is very sweet
I mean immense my sugar in their sweets
I was sleeping very slowly but the the
sweet smell masked the other smell and
his two daughters were playing with
broken dolls on the floor I sat down on
a freezing cold plastic chair and he
started to tell his story but he was
asking me about my story as well
why I do why I did why I came out here
as we were talking and his daughters
came closer to me because they were more
they were more friendly more open one of
the daughters handed me a doll and I
looked at the door and it was like a
doll from a horror movie
there’s parts missing it was a scary
doll but they were so happy because they
had a doll to play with it was their
childhood and the more he smokes more
his wife shared his story their stories
all of a sudden this home this tiny
Shack that I was staying in crammed in
with her family his family changed
something happened to me because all of
a sudden I wasn’t sat on a cold plastic
chair I was sat on a comfortable sofa
there was a lush coffee on the floor
artwork adorned on the walls there was a
chandelier hanging from the ceiling it
was his love for his family that
completely transformed this home and I
understood from his point of view why he
kept building this home made out of
rubbish and I asked him I said Jamal
what’s one thing that you’ve learned
from this journey sounds it sounded like
you had an amazing life what have you
learned and he said you know what when I
first starts first started my journey I
was angry I was angry because I had
spent ages building my business my
social life my house I was polishing my
car every day because I spent time on
things that did not matter and I was
angry at my wife and my kids because I
thought had I lost everything but in
fact I still have everything they’re
right here the thing about Jamal story
is it resonates with every single one of
us because helping humanity helping your
neighbor is amazing I don’t know a lot
of you guys are sitting there thinking
amory that’s a brilliant story fantastic
well
but I can’t jump on a plane and help a
stranger you’d be surprised how easy is
however I’m not really fussed if you do
that because it doesn’t start from there
it doesn’t even start from helping a
homeless person in your own city it
doesn’t start with helping your
next-door neighbor or having someone
cross the road because it starts with
you every single one of you the question
I get asked a lot is do you want to
change your world that’s great we want
to change our world is our planet it was
at home we want to change its world but
how can we really change your world if
you can’t change our home which is here
the thing about kindness and love it’s a
very very powerful thing and we can
pretend to be kind to one another we can
pretend to show love to one another but
if you are staring in front of the
mirror and you see your reflection
staring back at yourself and the first
thing that crosses your mind is you’re
fat you’re ugly you’re skinny you don’t
deserve that promotion you aren’t worth
anything then are you really being kind
to yourself the kindness that you share
with other people is it genuine or is it
just pretend or fake like we are on
social media the thing about social
media is allows us to compare ourselves
a lot with other people the thing about
social media is it also teaches you so
much about how other people are living
now one thing about now Humanity is I
want you to help children a lot so we
did amazing things we helped raise
thousands of pounds were money of to
raise coloring books and pens pencils
and packs and some free goods for the
children in the camps and there’s a
video that I want to show you about what
we did in the Dunkirk refugee camp
[Music]
you can learn a lot from children these
children are way more powerful than we
will ever be what they’ve gone through I
could never imagine but the thing is
that they’ve lost their child or they’re
losing their childhood
so just by reaching out to my live
streaming audience I just said to them I
said guys look I am walking the walk
right invest raise money and we will
actually do what I say so we actually
got loads of packs of these and we gave
them to all the kids in the Calais
jungle in the Dunkirk Jung refugee camp
and also in Berlin it was hugely
powerful but again if we truly want to
make a difference if we truly want to be
kind we truly want to spread that love
it starts with you it’s simple thank you
[Applause]
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