Shawn and his Uncultured Project (UP) project was profiled on YouTube today. It’s not a charity. It’s not a big organization. It’s just a guy using the power of the YouTube community to help the poor.

The YouTube community will be helping over 10,000 children in rural Bangladesh by supporting the efforts of 96 health workers and the distribution of 80 Salter Scales. Each health worker is estimated to be helping 150 to 200 children over the course of a year fighting severe acute malnutrition, pneumonia, diarrhea and other common childhood killers.

Learn more about Uncultured Project at his site here.

Uncultured Project on YouTube

More about Shawn
Shawn was a grad student at Notre Dame. Then he heard Dr. Jeffrey Sachs (author of the book “The End of Poverty“) talk about how it’s our generation’s responsibility to end poverty. He withdrew from grad school, packed his bags, grabbed a laptop & camcorder, and flew to Bangladesh (where his parents were born) to see how he could make a difference. In over three years, the YouTube community has helped him rebuild a school, provide scholarships, disaster relief, food, clean water, school supplies, and much more in both Bangladesh & around the world. This isn’t a formal charity – he just do this as an individual with the support of the YouTube community. “Uncultured” is a reference to me – not the people he’s helping.