HOPE at the Hilton Week in Tokyo, Osaka, and Nagoya

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    I should have included this in the Secret Ocean post, but it just wasn’t ready yet. Secret Ocean will be performing April 17th at the Hilton Tokyo in support of HOPE at the Hilton week from April 12 to 19.

    Basically HOPE is a Japan-based NGO that works hard at getting clean water for families in places like Cambodia, Somalia, and the Philippines. And they are better than Bono at thinking up creative ways to raise funds for that purpose. Ok, so maybe they don’t have the reach of the RED campaign, but they do have their own celebrity sponsor band in Fatblueman, a band which has played on stages all over, um,  Aichi in front of crowds of literally dozens…

    A highlight of HOPE at the Hilton Week is the auction, which features a lot of Hilton packages from exotic places all over the globe. Keep a close eye on those packages – every year there are a number that go for considerably less than their list price. And every time you bid your name is entered in a draw for a trip via United Airlines to the USA.

    So yeah, you help poor people by buying stuff for yourself. Capitalism rocks, no? (discuss in the comments ;-)

    There’s lots more to be had in the auction, and heaps more going on at the Hilton’s in Tokyo, Nagoya, and Osaka during the week. Check it all out in the video below.

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