Reforestation Run Weekend a Runaway Success!
December 8, 2010 by admin
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To the runners, sponsors, volunteers, and supporters of the VHP Reforestation Run: thank you!
With your help this weekend the VHP raised over $1,700 to plant trees in Haiti, a country that’s 98% deforested.
About 50 runners (and walkers!) participated, each contributing at least $10 worth of sponsorship money to the cause. The 5K course around Vassar’s lovely campus could be completed individually or in teams of three. Prizes were distributed to the fastest individual runner, and both the individual runner and team that raised the most money.
The VHP would also like to extend a special thank-you to Vassar’s African Students Union (ASU), Caribbean Students Alliance (CSA), and Poder Latino– three great organizations that collaborated with us on an open mic the Friday night before the run. They generously donated all the proceeds of the event to the VHP’s reforestation efforts.
The Reforestation Run weekend ran so smoothly, it could well become an annual VHP event!
