Vassar Haiti Project

Manning Wu ’14, head of our Reforestation Initiative and member of this year’s Outreach Committee reflects on upcoming art sale in Greenwich, CT, expected to be one of our largest sales of the school year.

This week, the Vassar Haiti Project had it’s second meeting with the Haitian art sale committee of the Convent of the Sacred Heart School in Greenwich, Connecticut!  We are all very excited for the sale, which will be January 20th and 21st.  This week, Andrew Meade was able to attend to ensure programming logistics, and David, the head of our medical initiative, was able to inspire the group with his vision for a clinic that is accessible to the people of Chermaitre.

We are also really excited that the CSH School wants to make this event educational, and look forward to students having discussions with Vassar and Yale faculty members about Haiti and to a student committee organizing publicity for the sale.  Next week, the head of the student committee will be coming to Vassar to interview students for a documentary project about Haiti and the Vassar Haiti project, to share with her fellow students- we look forward to seeing and sharing her project!  It’s wonderful to see more students interested in connecting with Haiti and learning more about Haitian culture and art.  We hope that, through the hard work of the CSH committee, they will be able to educate all the students of the school about Haiti and inspire them to get involved!

This sale will be a great way for our to reconnect with some of our alumni who are in Greenwich and the loyal patrons of our previous Greenwich sale, as well as reach out to a whole new group of people and share the wonderful mission of VHP.  We’re very excited about this new partnership, and hope it will be successful in educating more CSH students about Haiti and in sharing our beautiful artwork with more people!  Look for more updates as the event gets closer!