In 2017, Holy Moses entered a partnership with Asia’s Hope to sponsor a family-style orphan home in Northern Thailand.
GIVING BACK
Boys at the Asia's Hope home supported by Holy Moses rehearse a song in the native Karen Tribe language.
Justin and Jamie enjoy a dinner at the home and read cards written to them by some of the boys.
Kids living at Asia’s Hope homes receive all the benefits of a safe, loving family.
Justin and Jamie visited a tribal village to understand the cultural background of the communities Asia's Hope serves.
We always knew we wanted
to do this.
Our partnership with Asia’s Hope isn’t an add-on or afterthought. We always knew we wanted to do this, to use our business to help orphaned kids. And we knew about Asia’s Hope’s reputation for integrity and we really liked their family-style care model. So this was a part of our DNA, woven into the fabric of Holy Moses, written into the business plan.
Before we had a lease, before we had any customers — before we even had a name for the shop — we’d committed to give generously and consistently to help kids living at risk of exploitation. When an opportunity meets a calling, you don’t ask whether you can afford it or whether it makes business sense. You just make it happen.
Their passion matched ours.
We knew about Asia’s Hope, and had heard amazing things from some of their other supporters. Because we knew we were investing in a long-term relationship, we wanted to meet with them and to really find out what they do, why they do it that way and what a partnership would look like. From our first meeting, we were confident that these were the guys we wanted to work with — their passion matched ours. And their model made a lot of sense.
“When an opportunity meets a calling, you don’t ask whether you can afford it or whether it makes business sense. You just make it happen.”
— Justin Perkins, Owner, Holy Moses
We had a lot of options: Asia’s Hope was really different.
There are a lot of organizations helping orphaned kids around the world. Each one has a different strategy, a different focus, a different vibe. We did enough research to know that not all models are equal. It’s easy to do more harm than good. We had a lot of options and we didn’t want to hitch ourselves to something that we’d later have to pull away from. It helps that the Asia’s Hope main office is in Columbus — we can just drop in if we want to talk to them about anything.
Before we traveled to Thailand in the summer of 2017, we already knew that Asia’s Hope was really different — they’re culturally sensitive and strategically sound. They hire local, indigenous staff, and they create orphanages that function as families, not institutions. From the moment we arrived, it was just so clear that this is an organization that truly values kids and works hard to create environments for them where they can thrive.
These are some of the neediest kids in the world.
Spending time with the children at Asia’s Hope, you’d never guess that these are some of the neediest kids in the world. We met kids whose parents were murdered, or were serving life sentences for drug trafficking, or had simply abandoned them. We visited impoverished hill tribe villages like the ones the Asia’s Hope kids come from, and we heard stories of the kinds of exploitation orphaned kids from those villages face — slave labor, sex trafficking — some of the worst things you can imagine. But the kids at Asia’s Hope were thriving. They were succeeding in school, learning music, playing sports, enjoying the kind of life we want for our own kids.
“We knew that it was important to us not only as business owners, but as parents to offer our kids the opportunity to be involved in something this important.”
— Jamie Perkins, Owner, Holy Moses
We get to share the joy with our friends, clients, and employees.
When Asia’s Hope offered us the opportunity to take on the financial support of one of their homes in Thailand, we jumped at the offer. We knew that it was important to us not only as business owners but as parents to offer our kids the opportunity to be involved in something this important, even if it means limiting our own personal finances for a while.
Holy Moses supports 20 boys — all of whom were living without hope and without a future before Asia’s Hope rescued them. We know their names, we know their life stories, and we’ve shared meals with them. We’ve committed to supporting them throughout their childhood and helping to make sure that they can get a college education or vocational training as they transition to independent adulthood.
Our own kids are thrilled at the thought of someday visiting kids their age that they’ve helped support. And not only that, we get to share the joy with our friends, clients and employees.
The opportunity to help doesn’t start and end with a great haircut.
Everyone who works for or comes into our shop is in some ways a stakeholder in our partnership with Asia’s Hope. So whether you know it or not, if you’re a friend or client of Holy Moses, you’re already supporting these 20 kids in Thailand.
As we succeed, those kids in Thailand succeed as well. But the opportunity to help doesn’t start and end with a great haircut. We’re offering ways for you to give directly and for our employees to give part of their paycheck to help us meet our commitment to our Asia’s Hope kids. And over the next few months, we’ll be launching new and creative initiatives to spread the word — and the blessing of knowing that together, we can do something really meaningful, something truly satisfying.