Conor Grennan is the author of Little Princes and the mind behind Next Generation Nepal, a nonprofit organization dedicated to reconnecting trafficked children with their families in post-war Nepal.

Impressive, isn't it? What's interesting is that his reasons for taking the first steps in changing the lives of these forgotten children might not have been much different from your own.

Grennan had been living abroad in Europe when he decided to splurge and take one last trip around the world before returning back to life in the United States. He had signed up to spend some time volunteering because, as he admitted, "It's kind of like my friends guilted me into it ... and it's just kind of impressive to tell women that you volunteered at a Nepalese orphanage ... why not go there first?"

Although Grennan had been able to anticipate the state of poverty in Nepal, he did not expect to arrive in a country that was in the middle of a civil war. The role Grennan played in the orphanage was similar to a parent: he helped the kids get ready for school, fed them and tutored them. He became very attached to the children. "I thought when I got to the orphanage it would be like what you see on these commercials when they ask you to sponsor a child, and all the kids are all very forlorn and it's just a very quiet and sad place, but it was pretty much the opposite of that. I got inside the gated orphanage and immediately the kids just started jumping all over me and treating me like a jungle gym."

It was when Grennan returned to Nepal at the end of his trip that he found out that these kids weren't actually orphans. Because of the ongoing civil war, parents were being forced to give up their children to the rebel army. A man would enter the dangerous region and offer safety to these children, but for a high price. Desperate families pay large amounts of money because they believe that they are sending their kids out of harm's way, but the men, who are traffickers, pocket the money and abandon the children. Armed with this new information, Grennan made it his responsibility to try his best to return as many of the children to their families as possible.

Grennen's book, Little Princes, is an attempt to shed light on the human trafficking of children in Nepal, an issue that doesn't receive enough attention. "When we hear about trafficking, we often think about sexual trafficking, but this is totally different ... and because we're so in tune to a certain type of trafficking and not this one, it makes the situation in Nepal a little more invisible to the world."

Besides spreading the message of his organization, Next Generation Nepal, Grennen said he hopes Little Princes will inspire other ordinary people to make a difference in the world. According to Grennen, "You don't need to be the kind of person who volunteers ... or be that guy who is super compassionate and has a lot of concern for children, or the homeless, or Guatemala. All you need to do, really, is to decide to do it ... and that's the first step. Truly, anybody can do it."

For more information, visit nextgenerationnepal.com.