Vassar Haiti Project

On November 4th, the Vassar Haiti Project joined many other Vassar organizations at the Night Market (an annual event hosted by the Asian Students Alliance where each organization sets up a table selling various kinds of food). Participating in the Night Market is always a great opportunity not only to bond as VHP members, but also to get to know other organizations and get involved in the greater Vassar community.

Before the event, VHP members gathered to prepare the food that was going to be sold. We chopped piles of cabbage, cooked vermicelli, mixed dipping sauces, pan-fried tofu, filled and boiled dumplings, sautéed shrimp, and steamed buns—all in four and a half hours! All of that cooking was then brought down to the main event where even more wonderful VHP volunteers sold our homemade dumplings, hand rolled summer rolls, and freshly steamed buns (the last of which sold out in just twenty minutes!)

Although the night market was definitely a success in terms of profit, more importantly we came together as an organization and made a very large amount of work (you should have seen all the cabbage we chopped!) go by quickly and easily. In fact, every time VHP puts on an event—whether it’s a large, off-campus art sale or single-table booth at a night market—I’m always blown away to see how many VHPers are happy to step up and make it happen!

-Written by Lindsey Coffee-Johnson, Co-VP of Events