I’ve spent the past 6 months or so meeting with various organizations that deal with the neglected and disenfranchised of the world. I’ve been able to sit down with groups like World Vision, Compassion International, International Justice Mission and World Orphans, to name a few. All of these groups are doing excellent work and making an impact around the world.
The only problem is that non of them are scratching the itch that I feel. I can’t really explain it but I keep coming back to the fact that I’ve been given 10 years of solid business experience – but not for the sole purpose of lining my wallet….but so that I can make an impact in this world. I keep coming back to that word – IMPACT. What am I going to do with my life to make it count?
We just got back from Charlotte, NC for Christmas. My parents live up there and once or twice a year we’ll load up the minivan and haul the kids across the country to hang with my family. On the trip to their house we typically drive straight through from Dallas to Charlotte. On the way home we usually stop in Buford, GA (north of Atlanta) and spend a day or two with my sister & her family.
Somewhere between Charlotte and Atlanta I began to put the pieces together for Hupomeno. I want to create an organization that:
1) Helps the individual who is suffering
2) Takes the fruit of that individuals labor and reinvests it back into their community
3) Taps into the social awareness of the twenty-something and thirty-something population in the U.S.
4) Acts as a catalyst for others to see that life is not about the accumulation of toys and trinkets
And so Hupomeno was conceived somewhere on I-85 South headed toward Atlanta.
- David
