Project 2017.Bringing awareness through Music
The Beacons 2017 initiative to spread awareness and bring about change in impoverished communities in India took place from June 26, 2017 to July 15th, 2017. Throughout their tour they traveled through India to spread the message of socioeconomic growth and development for impoverished people, created by the organization WeSaveEarth. The Band went and performed in delhi at India International Centre where they advocated amongst the I.I.C members assistance to help support the initiative. The Beacons traveled to D.P.S (Delhi Public School-Indirapuram to perform for students and get the youth masses involved in this cause to help the underprivileged. They then trekked the Himalayas to reach the school of All Saints College in Nanital, where they continued to spread the message pioneered by WeSaveEarth. Through their efforts they touched the lives of tens of thousands people with music and the power and influence of social work
Project Kushinagar
In the summer of 2015, Sujoy Haldar traveled to Kushinagar, Uttar Pradesh to work on public health development initiative. With the help of the Indian government and the NGO VLSKC, Sujoy went to a village where he had the opportunity to aid in the education regarding insect borne diseases by conveying to the villagers the dangers of contracting insect borne disease and the precautions and solutions that the villagers must take when dealing with it. Furthermore, he personally financed the donation of mosquito nets to the over 1000 villagers because they lacked a sustainable resource to provide mosquito protection. While there, Sujoy discovered many other underdeveloped inelastic resources such as fresh water and a sustainable shelter. Today, with the help of other volunteers, he hopes to return to continue this endeavor of socioeconomic sustainability and development.
Project Ramgarh
In the Summer of 2010 Vishnupriya moved forward with the development initiative aiming for environmental sustainability and the use of natural resources. She financed the construction of a rain water harvesting tank and educated students on sustainability by teaching them about the need to plant trees to save the environment from climate change.
In the summer of 2011 Vishnupriya, Sheena and Taylor students from NY went to Ramgarh-India which is at the foothills of the Himalayas. They were committed to helping the girls from Ramghar where they had no water in their school and had to walk miles to get water. They taught the villagers about Rainwater harvesting and also sponsored the building of a water tank with the help of the local NGO (Chirag).