Paly’s Model Citizen Club will send around $2,500 to PlayPumps International in about two weeks, according to the club’s president Arianna Governatori.

The club held a fashion show Saturday on Paly’s Quad to raise money for PlayPumps International, an organization that provides clean water to schools and communities in Africa.

A PlayPump is a mechanism that combines a play structure for children with a way to provide clean water to villages in Africa. When children play on the play structure – which is in the form of a merry-go-round – clean water is pumped from underground into a storage tank, and a tap is provided so that the water is easily accessable.

According to Governatori, the money was raised through ticket and shirt sales, as well as a few other significant donations.

“I think that the event went really well,” Governatori said. “The music was great and the fashion show was really successful.”

The opportunity to make donations has not yet ended; the club’s Web site (http://www.modelcitizenclub.com) will remain accessible throughout the summer, according to Governatori. Also, if the club members decide to hold a fashion show next year as well, the club’s Web site will remain open for donations throughout next year.

“The fashion show was a great way to fundraise,” junior model Tess Bellomo said. “We used a lot of teamwork and the clothes were really pretty.”

Clothes for the fashion show were rented from Vian Hunter, Cassis, Nalej, Romi and designed by Governatori, as well as senior Meg Powell and juniors Daniella Mizrahi, Nicki Hwang and Yuko Kanai.

Local bands Funk 411 and Hella Original played during each of the fashion show’s intermissions.

The money raised will go toward the construction of a PlayPump. Each PlayPump costs $14,000. According to the PlayPump Web site (http://www.PlayPumps.org), each PlayPump offers a 2,500 liter, or 660 gallon, storage tank. The pumps reach up to 100 meters underground and pump up to 370 gallons of water per hour. The pumps have four billboards in their design, two of which are reserved for social and public health messages.