| Date: | January 31, 2015 |
| Time: | 3:00 - 4:45 PM |
| Venue: | Lyric Theatre |
| Cost: | $5.00 |
| Description: |
Virginia Tech Students Helping Honduras (VTSHH) presents a very special screening of Blood Brother on Saturday, January 31st at the Lyric Theatre. 100% of the proceeds go towards building materials for the school over 50 Hokies broke ground on in Honduras this 2014-2015 Winter Break! Tickets may be purchased in advance or at the door, $5 cash or credit! To purchase online, visit: https://www.fundaround.com/vtshh/2014-12-26/vt-students-helping-honduras-blood-brother-benefit-screening/ Blood Brother Synopsis: Rocky Braat, a young man from a fractured family and a troubled past, went traveling through India without a plan. Then he met a group of HIV positive children living in an orphanage — a meeting that changed everything for him. Rocky left his life, friends, and career in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania to live with the kids. Steve Hoover, his best friend and filmmaker, was unsettled and intrigued by this drastic action. In an effort to find out what compelled Rocky to give up every source of stability in his life, Hoover decided to trace Rocky’s story, following him to India. He witnessed Rocky and the kids endure disease, abject poverty, and death. But, strangest of all, in the midst of these troubles, he also saw their deep joy. And he came to understand why Rocky had given up everything he had to experience it. ‘Blood Brother’ is a story of friendship. It’s a story of a life, stripped down to its essence. Most of all, it is a story about love, enduring in the face of death. About our organization: Students Helping Honduras at Virginia Tech is an organization committed to similar values that are portrayed in the documentary. Such values include empowering children that are currently living in poverty and dangerous environments. The way Students Helping Honduras chooses to empower kids is through education. Our goal as a whole is to build 1,000 schools around Honduras to give the children the necessary tools to make sustainable changes in their country. By attending this incredible documentary, you are not only watching a documentary that could very well change your outlook in some way, but you are also helping us finish the construction of a school in a village called Ramon de la Rosa in the city of El Progreso in Honduras. This 2014-2015 Winter Break, over 50 Hokies broke ground on the school and are beginning to fund-raise the $25,000 needed for building materials in the Spring Semester. This way the children there have the opportunity to further their education instead of falling into gang life. For more information on VTSHH, visit: https://www.fundaround.com/vtshh/ |