An Australian couple with six children decided to drop everything this Christmas to become nomads.
Queensland ‘fitspo’ couple Sharny, 36, and Julius Kieser, 35, are famous for their popular workout programs for parents. For years, they have been sharing videos of their routines and daily life, but just recently, the couple decided to make this Christmas a different and a meaningful one.
The couple packed up their lives, sold everything they owned and traveled to Bali to become ‘nomads’ with their six children, and this year, they decided to forego giving their kids gifts for a more charitable cause.
“A few weeks ago I got the snip, we sold or gave away everything we owned and the freedom in that act alone had us feeling younger and more at peace, our children became less greedy and more collaborative,” Julius said in one of their videos.
“We turned our clothes into airline tickets. We said goodbye to some loved ones and we are now nomads travelling the world.
“We are now financially free enough that we can travel full time and work with our kids” Sharny added.
In their latest YouTube video, Julius then explained why they thought of buying nothing for their children this Christmas.
“This year we decided to do something different… we got the kids nothing. We got the hotel to take us all to a local orphanage.
“We stopped off at a local supermarket and bought some supplies and gifts since the orphanage is not government-funded and could really do with some help. We had no idea what we were walking into,” he said.
The couple then shared a heart-wrenching footage of the orphanage and the ‘horrible’ conditions the children were living in. “In the local town if a mother re-marries she is forced to abandon her children, if they’re lucky they find their way here. We thought we’d bought a lot and we thought it would make a difference but we were shocked, humbled and intimidated by the un-ending need for help that we just couldn’t give. After a few hours of playing with the kids we handed over our supplies and got into our car… the hardest part was saying goodbye,” Julius said.
He then said that while they return to their ‘air conditioned room’ in their ‘luxury hotel,’ those children don’t. “We get to Facetime grandparents. These kids don’t have grandparents. These kids don’t have parents. These kids don’t even have electricity. These kids don’t get to walk away, they don’t get to escape,” he said.
“When our supplies run out in a few weeks they go back to the brink of poverty and then what?
“No matter how much we try to live back in our lives again now, to mentally escape, a part of each of us is still there. The saddest thing is that we just cant help everyone,” he added.
The couple have gained praises from their over 53,000 followers on Facebook.
Source: Dailymail.co.uk
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