This post is also very important to me.
Well, we got permission to do the T-shirts and we're selling them starting Monday. Pre-orders only, so we can get them printed over break and then do what we can from there. I finished making the designs and am currently almost completely sleepless because of it, but it's going to be worth it. I just know it is.
Anyway, the final designs are these:
A lot of people at school have expressed interest in buying a shirt, including over half of choir and a lot of the badminton team and my French class and English class. I'm really, really hopeful we can sell a lot, but being able to donate any amount of money would be really fantastic.
The amount of support I've gotten is really heartwarming. People asked about the shirts all day. They really do want to buy them, I think, which gives me more hope than anything anyone has ever done in this school before. This is little me, who doesn't know a lot of people very well, garnering support from kids that I don't even think like me sometimes.
My goal is $500 dollars, which means we'll probably have to sell between 150 and 200 shirts, depending on how much our profit is. But my choir teacher is donating $100 dollars to Ryan and I for donation later. ;__; Thank you, Mrs. B.
And thank all of you, for helping me out when I asked for it. I'm so grateful, you wouldn't believe it right now.
If you're interested in buying one, the shirts are going to be $10 dollars apiece. But, if I include shipping, they work out to $17 each if you live in the US, and probably more if you live overseas. Dx I wish it weren't so expensive, but shouganaization. .__. I can't pay for much on my own; that's why we're doing presale at school. But every penny of profit goes to the Red Cross, so I don't make anything off this at all. ♥
I'm also selling them at help_japan
here. The two highest bidders will get both shirts and free shipping.
I'll start taking orders now, and shirts will be printed in two weeks or so. From there, I'll ship shirts ASAP. Leave me your size (adult S-XL, I think), the T-shirt you want ("hope" or "together"), and your email so I can get your address later. And feel free to offer them to your friends and family! (/sneaky marketing ploy) The costs will be reduced to $10 per shirt and $7-$16 dollars for shipping in the US, depending on how many I can cram into a single box.
Thank you again for your time. ♥