Our dad was one of those rare people who made everyone around him feel like they mattered. No matter where he was travelling in the world or who he was meeting, people around him felt heard, seen, and ultimately, never forgotten.

He started travelling when he was a teenager and never stopped, right up until the day he went to heaven, just over a year ago. Always chasing the next adventure, always coming back with the wildest stories. He was never one to bring back souvenirs; instead, he would return with new friendships he would call family. People he met on the road, people whose lives he helped change. From building a new roof to buying a month's worth of groceries, he made a real difference in ways that stayed with people.

He was the most generous person I've ever known. He never put limits on his giving, even when he didn't have much himself. I remember coming across a mother and her two children while we were hiking in Panama. We were travelling light, but without hesitating, he asked my brother, my mom, and me to each give something of ours. We gave them the clothes off our backs and the shoes off our feet. It wasn't much, but for them, it was everything.

That instinct, to give what you have even when it isn't much, is what we're trying to carry forward.

With this GoFundMe, my brother and I want to keep doing exactly what he did: travelling, connecting, and helping families in need with food, housing, and other basic needs. So far, my brother has helped a family in Sri Lanka with groceries, giving them a week where they could eat something other than rice. I helped a family in South Africa replace their roof before the rainy season and made sure they had enough food, too. Our family has also been supporting a village in Thailand that we've known for over 37 years, returning again and again to keep that relationship alive.

Every dollar contributed goes directly to the people we meet on the road. A family. A small business. Someone whose story stops us in our tracks. Nothing is kept. We fund our own travel. What you give here goes entirely to the families we meet along the way. Every moment is filmed, documented, and shared publicly so you can see exactly where your contribution goes and whose life it touched.

This isn't charity. It's not a campaign with an end date. It's two kids trying to travel the way their father taught them and bringing people along for the ride.

Not everyone was born lucky enough to grow up in a country like Canada. We didn't choose where we were born any more than they did. But we can choose what we do with that luck.

This is our small way of doing something about it.

For Olivier.

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