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On July 16th, 14 youth and leaders from North Shore Alliance Church are departing to India for 3 weeks to work with the Dalit people. We will be working with the Good Shepherd Schools in Andra Pradesh, running VBS camps for kids in the rural village schools. We will also be doing various outreach projects.
Our relationship with DFN is entirely student-led. About 2 years ago one of the students in our youth group presented us with the story of the Dalit people and said we needed to do something about it. So we did. We started to raise money to build a well for one of the schools. Our student leadership group ran fundraisers and events to raise awareness and money for the well. In 4 months they had raised $2000, enough to buy the well. We invited Dr. Greg Hislop and Sherry Bailey to come and share more about the Dalits with us. As we heard and learned more we knew that we needed to do more, so we committed to raising $4000 the next year to buy 2 additional wells. Because of the money we had raised and the support our students had shown for the Dalits, the president of DFN came to speak to our community. He invited us to bring a team the following summer to see and meet the Dalit people we were trying to help.
So here we are 2 years later taking a team of 10 Highschool students thousands of miles around the world to go hear the stories of the Dalit people, to stand with them in solidarity and express to them that they have value and worth and are created equal.
We are so blessed to be able to do this and so excited to meet our new friends in India! We want to be Champions for the Dalit people!!! To see them set free, to learn, to have life, to experience love, and to have hope.