Celebs Donate Twitter Accounts To Impoverished Countries

Apparently, we can now donate our social media accounts to help the less fortunate.

The United Nations is making a big push to bring awareness to developing nations these days. Acting under the hashtag #ShareHumanity in the buildup to World Humanitarian Day on Aug. 19, social media types can donate their Twitter accounts temporarily to help tell the stories of 3rd-world nationals.

From refugees to peasant farmers, the social media accounts are taken over by people for whom survival is a daily challenge. With harrowing accounts of brutality and oppression, we get an eye-opening view of what it means to live on the other side of the world — in places we perhaps don’t concern ourselves with until something truly devastating happens. Celebs like singers Cody Simpson and Leona Lewis and model/actress Shay Mitchell have surrendered their accounts so that awareness can be raised to the everyday horrors of these people in strife.

The posts that have come out so far have been simple and yet enormously powerful:

It’s 2 am can’t sleep. Police were just here at @Amaltikva’s house asking if she is hosting Syrians. #ShareHumanity –@ThairDamascus

— Cody Simpson (@CodySimpson) August 13, 2015

On a boat to Italy w/ 234 other refugees and migrants. Their strength is unbelievable. #ShareHumanity –@ThairDamascus pic.twitter.com/YUe47RMHMG

— Cody Simpson (@CodySimpson) August 13, 2015

I have no passport, no money, and no clothes. Nothing. But I am happy to be alive. #Italy #ShareHumanity –@ThairDamascus

— Cody Simpson (@CodySimpson) August 13, 2015

I’ve travelled 3248KM so far. It’s hard to say goodbye to Italy but it’s not my best hope for asylum. #ShareHumanity –@ThairDamascus

— Cody Simpson (@CodySimpson) August 13, 2015

I’ve arrived in #Berlin and applied for asylum, fingers crossed! #Germany #ShareHumanity –@ThairDamascus

— Cody Simpson (@CodySimpson) August 14, 2015

And that’s just one story out of many that have been told. Perhaps the best part of all of this is that you don’t have to be a celebrity to temporarily donate your account — anyone can do it!

In fact, to raise awareness for this powerful cause, I donated my own account:

I’ve donated my Twitter account temporarily to #ShareHumanity. A young Serbian boy named Aco will be using my account until Aug. 19 to post.

— Jeff Klima (@OhJeff) August 14, 2015

Hello, this is Aco … testing … testing.

— Jeff Klima (@OhJeff) August 14, 2015

Wow, this guy’s only got like 150 followers … who the hell am I going to convince with this shit account?

— Jeff Klima (@OhJeff) August 14, 2015

Why couldn’t I have gotten Justin Bieber or Cody Simpson? Most of this assclown’s previous tweets have been about trying to buy drugs …

— Jeff Klima (@OhJeff) August 14, 2015

Coldplay sucks, amIright?

— Jeff Klima (@OhJeff) August 14, 2015

Okay, so not really. But it is a fantastic cause and even stupid jokes raise some sort of awareness, so don’t call me too evil. Be sure to go to the ShareHumanity site for more details about raising your own awareness.

And share this with everyone you know … and even people you don’t!