I don't know if you know what this woman has been doing,
but Bethany has helped send 40 planes with food and supplies
to Puerto Rico.
40!
40 planes.
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It's a group of people.
It's an underground network, no one
that I had ever met before a week and a half ago, which
is the most outrageous thing.
There's a group called Global Empowerment Mission,
We Do Better.
If you want to do something, you find the people
that want to do something also.
And that can be anything in your life.
I didn't know any of them, and I was helpless.
I was trying to find somebody.
How do I help you?
And a lot of famous people said, don't worry about it,
we got it.
And you can't go there, no one's doing anything.
There's no water there.
It's been the most insane thing I've ever
been through in my whole life.
So how did you get started?
I was saying to you backstage, I have been crying and sobbing
about everything that's going on in the world-- not just,
you know--
but especially Puerto Rico.
This entire place has been wiped out.
But how did you get started?
Well, I got started because I had
an initiative called Be Strong.
It was to help people in crisis.
And then I did work in Houston with people
who had lost everything.
The bar for me became if you've lost everything.
I wanted it to be very dire.
And in Houston, it was dire, but I
didn't realize what dire was, because people
could drink water.
And then the bar got even lower, and because I
started kind of getting a knack for this like anything else.
I was saying, so now it's Puerto Rico.
What do I do now?
And this was the hardest one for some reason,
because people are saying you can't go there.
People can't drink the water.
And I'm saying, well, that's why I have to.
What do you mean?
Let's just sit home and eat some Bonbons and watch people die.
And so then I said, well, I'm going to get a plane.
I've got to get a plane.
And then how am I going to fill the plane?
I was going to go to a store.
But that's not a plan.
And I became motivated and could do it,
and I was watching change.
And then someone said, I see what you're doing.
I have a plane.
And then I would start talking to people, don't call me
if you don't have a plane.
And I felt like my social life--
imagine if I was like that when I was single.
I am single.
Imagine if I'm like that now in my non-charitable life.
But I was like--
You're so busy, you don't even know you're single.
Right, right.
So it just became kind of a movement.
And then these people in chat rooms, most of them
are broke 24/7.
I have people that I would die for, that would kill for me,
that I have met once.
There's a child on a vent that needs to get home,
there's a Children's Hospital that needs medicine.
The planes that I'm sending, we have
to fill every seat to come back.
This person, their father is dying in Miami
and has days to live.
So we have to get those two and their kid home.
But then there are medical patients,
and it's literally like killing every roach in Manhattan.
And you guys, people are dying.
This is not a joke.
This is not the blame game.
People get on my Twitter to fight
with each other about whose fault it is.
It doesn't matter.
There's a mess, and we have to clean it up.
People are dying, they're rationing little bits of water.
People are dying in the hundreds.
They need dialysis, they need oxygen. And I'm getting planes,
but not every plane holds the solar panels
that we have that could light 20,000 homes.
And not every plane can hold oxygen. And it's a puzzle.
And it's serious.
It's a whole place that people are really dying.
And when I started seeing mothers
with babies that are two months old that are waiting in line
and waiting.
It is what you just said.
We cannot forget about this.
Because when a disaster happens, we think about it
for a few days, and then we move on.
And now these horrible fires that are going on right now
in California, which everyone should
help the firefighters if you can help firefighters,
because they need our help.
There's so much going on.
So what specifically can people do?
Because we need to keep talking.
What should people do?
OK, well, my initiative is called Be Strong.
It's Be Strong, delivering-good.org.
And the future effort is this undertaking--
this whole thing is more than I've ever done in my whole
life--
but is to fill a cargo ship that I have.
I have the cargo ship.
And you should be so proud of Americans,
because around the country, churches,
convention centers, high schools,
there's relief everywhere.
But this is different, because what are they
supposed to do with the hundreds of thousands
of millions of pounds?
You can't get it to Puerto Rico.
So that's the bigger plan right now is the planes.
And I have two planes booked today.
And then the future is the big cargo shipment,
which will be a major, major, private thing.
We will continue to do this.
If you want to help, and please, I hope you do.
It's amazing, it just adds up. $1, $5.
Whatever you can do, whatever you can send, is going to help.
If everybody watching right now did that,
it would make a difference.
Go to our website to find out how you can help.
I've partnered with Cheerios to inspire
one million acts of good.
And they were so inspired by what
you're doing in Puerto Rico, they're
going to give you $54,000.
Which is three planes, right? $54,000.
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Three planes?
Three planes.
And also, they're going to fill those planes
with 100,000 individual items of food from General Mills.
They are going to get the food there.
I thought you were going to say 54,000 Cheerios.
That would be very light.
No, it will be a lot more.
It will be a lot more.
And so speaking of helping Puerto Rico,
tomorrow, I am going to be part of One Voice
telethon for hurricane relief on NBC, Telemundo, and Univision.
And you're going to be there as well,
and there are going to be a lot of stars
and some amazing performances.
You should definitely check it out.
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