Vassar Haiti Project

The weekend of September 9-11th marks the kick-off event for the 2011-2012 school year. Laura Livingston ’12, VP for Merchandise, recaps the wonderful event.

If the rest of the year goes as well for the Vassar Haiti Project as the St. John’s sale went, then we will have done good work. The St. John’s sale in Washington, CT was the first sale of the year. Many of the customers were members of St. John’s church. They were curious about the art and the project. Many lingered in the room, meandering among the paintings and handicrafts. While I was cashiering on Sunday, one family returned to the cashier’s table three separate times with different assortments of handicrafts. I heard other people say that they had returned to the sale on Sunday after first coming on Friday or Saturday. This boomerang effect of people coming, leaving, and returning is a great strength of VHP and speaks to people’s unplanned, almost instinctive, attraction to this project.