Not Fashionable - every shirt is individualy screen printed on an...

every shirt is individualy screen printed on an American Apparel shirt. we don’t have many colors yet, but if you see one that you like, please send me an email to ryanstephena@gmail.com, and I can send one out to you (sizes: girls S,M,L and mens S,M,L,XL). every shirt is packaged and has a message about hunger and the role that we play in stopping it.

if these were anymore handmade, they would be sand castles.

the heart behind having this page is so that an internal dialogue can beging inside of us. i know that the website is crappy- it’s a blog for crying out loud. i know that the shirts are made in my parents living room. i know that hunger seems like an impossible thing for us to overcome. i was at In-N-Out burger the other night and the guy working behind the register looked at my shirt, then my face, then my shirt, then my face and said “dude, that’s a depressing shirt”.

i replied, “thank you”.

i then asked him if he wanted one to which he replied “uhh, no”.

but he saw it. and it did something inside of him. it bothered him enough to read it a time or two and then question it. the letters were big enough that he had to read it. below you will find a few things that WE can do to make people look at, read into and think about.

Aug 13 2008

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the UN estimates that between 26,500 and 30,000 children die of hunger everyday. hunger. not war, not disease, not natural disaster. hunger. totally treatable, clearly curable and absolutely preventable. when the UN says that up to 30,000 children die of hunger everyday, they are only talking about kids five and younger. but we let it happen. they don’t get a mention in the obituaries or make headline news. they die silent, painful, lonely deaths. they die off camera and in the poorest places on earth.

we can change this. you can bring change. we don’t have to let this sort of thing happen. the point is not to guilt people into pinching a couple pennies so that we can let ourselves off the hook. the point is to restore humanity to these children. to let them die like this, night after night, is saying something about the way we view life and people. we aren’t talking about making everyone rich or inventing a new concept. we are talking about equality and compassion. we wouldn’t let our own brothers and sisters starve to death if it was within our power to save them. know that it is.

and they say that apathy never killed anyone.

so think. think about how blessed you are. don’t forget that justice and mercy are at the very center of why you are the way you are. remember that anytime someone asks you what these shirts mean that you are actively making someone aware of something that they cannot ignore. always remember that you are fighting for the people who aren’t going to make you famous or rich, but people whose hope you are restoring. God is on the move.

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