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This is the story of how Hope came into existence. Siddhanth Agarwal, 24, a marketing executive was sent on unpaid leave at the beginning of the lockdown. He moved back to his hometown Shahjahanpur from New Delhi to live with his parents.
As the pandemic led to lockdowns, each one of us fell into the dungeon of overthinking and the pressure to be productive. Siddhanth who found himself doing nothing for months, suffered from anxiety attack. That’s when he decided to do something with the time he had in hand.
Siddhanth began conversing with people around him and asked them one simple question- What do you miss the most during the lockdown?
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Although people were restricted from travelling but objects weren’t. That’s when Agarwal came up with ‘Project HOPE: The travelling t-shirt’.
Hope travels across the world. With a simple black t-shirt, Siddhant wanted to spread the message of solidarity, the message that no matter where you come from or who you are, we are all in this together.
Hope has travelled from New Delhi to Singapore, Hong Kong, Tokyo, Japan, Los Angeles and New York. Siddhanth got in touch with artists and creators around the world through social media. The only condition was to wear the t-shirt and show it around the city and document the experience through the eyes of the travelling t-shirt. The vlogs have already been shared from some of the cities on the project’s YouTube channel.