The request from the small boy on the banks of the India's River Ganges was
He just wanted a pencil.
For Adam Braun, then a 21-year-old college student, it triggered a chain of events that would lead him to help fulfill the same wish for thousand of children around the world.
Braun, now 32 and a successful author and businessman, was in India after being inspired by the 1992 movie "Baraka" — a highly visual documentary showing how people live around the planet.
It was, he says, "the most transformative trip of my life."
"[The film] showed a scene that was shot on the banks of the Ganges River in Varanasi, India," he says. "I was so motivated by that scene that I decided I had to get to India.
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