ALLEN: A simple gesture for a young boy in India has grown into a worldwide charity. And it was all thanks to travel. Here's how Adam Braun describes the trip that changed his life.</s>ADAM BRAUN, FOUNDER, PENCILS OF PROMISE (voice-over): Travel gives me a tremendous sense of freedom and also it gives me a set of experiences that remind me how small I am in the world and, at the same time, I think oftentimes embolden me to dream really big. I'm Adam Braun, founder of Pencils of Promise and a "New York Times" best-selling author. That picture reminds me of my trip to India as a 21-year-old college student and it was undoubtedly the most transformative trip of my life. I watched a film called "Baraka." They showed a scene that was shot on the banks of the Ganges River in Varanasi, India, and I was so motivated by that scene that I decided I had to get to India. It was a profoundly spiritual moment, in all honesty. It was one of those times where you feel like you are coming into the person that you are destined to be. One young boy, asked me on the streets of India, who is a street beggar, if he could have anything in the world, the thing that he would want most was a pencil. And so off of that experience, I decided to start carrying many pens and pencils. And I gave them out to a group of children, which was something that I eventually did with hundreds and hundreds and probably thousands of children</s>ALLEN: Our top stories are next.
The Trip That Changed My Life.