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Continuing Kindness: Teen Bringing Clean Water to Haiti

Merrimack High School junior Hannah Vaccaro on another mission to help Haiti.

A year after collecting more than 2,000 pairs of shoes and raising more than $4,000 for an orphanage in La Gonave, Haiti, Merrimack High School junior Hannah Vaccaro is busying herself again with a new project.

Then 15, Vaccaro organized the Lace2Race road race that started and ended at Merrimack High School on June 1. Before, during and after the race, the Vaccaro family garage became a shoe warehouse of sorts as she collected gently used pairs of shoes to donate to a new orphanage she'd had a hand in helping build during a mission trip with her church.

This year, Vaccaro is raising awareness and aid for Haiti again, but this time the cause is clean drinking water. Scheduled for June 1, the Running Water 5k registration is available online and Vaccaro is taking up a collection of clean, reusable water bottles to deliver to Haiti. The proceeds from the race will go toward helping install a new well on La Gonave to provide clean drinking water to 4,000 people.

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Registration for the race is a water bottle and $5 for students and a water bottle and $15 for adults. Get more information here, and read the original story about how Vaccaro answered a call to action in a very positive way.


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