Inspired to Act /// Thank you for the support!

A BIG THANK YOU to all for making our Sharing Hope Benefit Concert a success!

The concert sold over 300 tickets and raised $1488.80 for our LivingHope School project. The concert saw a collaboration of many different performers (who did not know each other before the concert); with two of them coming all the way up from California, United States! Many non-performers helped the sale of tickets, told others of the Dalits and helped designed T-shirts, posters, etc. A clear, thought-provoking message about the Dalits was delivered that night.

We were concerned that the concert NOT be a showcase of talents but to rouse us to use our talents for God’s mission to the world. Thus, we prayed and worked our hearts out; trusting that people would be ‘inspired to act’ as champions for the Dalits.

We can’t wait to see what would happen next!

Concert t-shirts

As a collaboration project between herrohachi and BHLC Sharing Hope, we have designed a couple t-shirts that will be sold at the upcoming benefit concert.

The purpose of this shirt is to leave a legacy; to leave a lasting impact on those who attended the concert, to always keep the Dalits in mind. We hope this shirt will be a conversation starter, we hope this shirt will be reminder for us to keep the Dalits in mind as we go about our everyday lives, to constantly be that "voice for the Dalit people".

Why are we doing this? The story behind it all....

It was eight months ago that we began our campaign to raise funds to build a school for the Dalit children in India. Just three months prior to this eighth month mark was when the mission team went to India, in which the team members had their hearts broken everyday due to witnessing firsthand the poverty and human rights violations that the Dalits endured. Upon our return to Vancouver, we pondered what could we do to participate in the freeing of the Dalits.

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