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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 […]

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With thanks and gratitude to all who made the Haitian art sale at Trinity Church this weekend a smashing success….we realize that it is all of us together, collaboratively, with collective consciousness…that made our efforts create a great event. Thank you, Vassar students, coming together with Trinity parishioners, to raise $9,270.00 in three days! We […]

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Vassar Haiti Project collaborated with the Office of Health Education to hold the Halloween Fun Run! This is a continuation of last year’s Reforestation run that we held in November. We are hoping to continue this work and hold annual Fundraising Runs in the future. Many students from Vassar Haiti Project volunteered at the event […]

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On Oct 15, Vassar’s community day “A Day at Vassar” event, Vassar Haiti Project held a small art sale in the college center. The college allowed us to use this important space of the College for this special day. We’re a very prominent representative of Vassar student’s extracurricular activities, and the community day exhibition sale […]

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Last Friday’s Open Mic Night event reminded me of the importance of creativity and collaboration. “Fruits n Shoots” was a very creative way of engaging Vassar students with the goals and visions of the Vassar Haiti Project. A showcase of multiple talents, the Open Mic Night provoked laughs and sing-alongs from the audience while raising […]

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VHP’s very first art sale of the semester was a huge success! This past Friday, Saturday and Sunday, Vassar students and community members joined hands with the Outreach Committee of St. John’s to host an art sale, whose proceeds will kick off the building of a two-room clinic in Chermaitre, Haiti. The colors and brush […]

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Join the Vassar Haiti Project this weekend for a fantastic Haitian art auction and sale in Washington, CT. St. John’s Church and the Vassar Haiti Project are hosting a Haitian Art Sale in featuring 200 original Haitian paintings and a huge assortment of handcraft and jewelry. Proceeds to support earthquake reconstruction in Port-au-Prince and a […]

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Wondering what’s entailed by the different jobs at the Art Sale/auction? Here are descriptions of these jobs: Sale: Host, Cashier, Stocking, Wrapping Auction: Painting Describer, Presenter, Spotter, Bid Recorder, Runner, Registration, Cashier, Wrapping [media id=2 width=480 height=270]

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YWCA Reception

Last Thursday (February 17th), a wine and cheese reception was held for our art sale at the Greenwich, CT YWCA (February 1st- 25th).  Cindy Fung ’14, one of the four VHP members who attended the reception, recaps the event. Outside the room where Haitian paintings were mounted, we set up two tables to display and […]

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Created with flickr slideshow from softsea. The VHP spent the second saturday of the month (December 11th) in Beacon, NY participating in Beacon’s Second Saturday event for the very first time.  We displayed and sold paintings, handicrafts, and newly minted Roots for Haiti reforestation  gift certificates. With the outstanding work of our volunteers and the generous […]

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