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'''Vilnius Hitch-hiking Club''' ('''VHHC''', ''Vilniaus autostopo klubas (VAK)'' in Lith.) was one of the leading [[hitchhiking]] organizations in [[Europe]], and a a member of International Hitch-hiking Association. It was founded in October 2nd, 1996, and was based in [[Vilnius]], [[Lithuania]]. Some of the most prominent club's hitchhikers were [[Vladas Sapranavičius]], [[Dainius Kinderis]], [[Robert Prins]], [[Katja and Augustas|Augustas Kligys]], [[Andrius Jankaitis]], [[Andrius Sytas]], [[Audronė Rukšaitė]], [[Egidijus Surma]], [[Lina Ratkevičiūtė]], [[Inga Garnytė]], [[Vilmantas Trumpickas]], [[Katja Lachman]], [[Asta Gulijeva]], [[Laurynas Ivinskis]].
The club organized local and international hitchhiking expeditions, competitions, conferences, gatherings, lectures and used to prepare various publications for Internet and mass media. It has regular member meetings and a governing board.
* VHHC joins Association of Youth NGOs of Vilnius "Round Table" on 28 November, 1998
* VHHC gets funding from state for the 3rd International Hitch-hiking Conference on 24 February, 1999
* Domain name autostop.lt activated for the website of VHHC on April 1, 1999* The last (the 5th) internal (for VHHC's members only) professional hitchhiking race organized on 11 September, 1999
== Presidents ==
* 1997 - Augustas Kligys (25000 km) and Violeta Kazokaitytė
* 1998 - Augustas Kligys (30500 km) and Audronė Rukšaitė (20000 km)
* 1999 - Vladas Sapranavičius (27000 km) and Inga Garnytė
== Websites ==
