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SGMA delivers holiday cheer to community organizations
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Posted on Dec 21 2000
SGMA is certainly in a giving mood this holiday season.
The Saipan Garment Manufacturer’s Association got into the Christmas spirit this week by presenting monetary gifts to a number of island organizations, including separate donations of $2,500 each to Karidat and to the San Jose Parish Council.
Karidat is a social service organization that assists the needy; the agency has already earmarked the money for a battered women’s facility. The donation to the San Jose Parish Council will be used to stage a fund-raising event on December 23, when popular Philippine singer Freddie Aguilar will perform to help raise funds for the construction of a social hall next to the San Jose Church. Also on SGMA’s “gift giving list” this year: the CNMI Parent to Parent Association, the Safe & Sober Foundation, Tanapag Elementary School, the Hyatt Regency Tournament for Ayuda Network, Mt. Carmel School, the Diocese of Chalan Kanoa, and the Eurotex Workers Relief Fund.
“It gives us great pleasure to be able to help worthy organizations around the island,” said SGMA executive director Richard A. Pierce. “We know that the type of groups we donate to work very hard toward the betterment of the community.”
This is the seventh year of annual donations to Karidat. The non-profit organization performs a myriad of services for the community, including crisis intervention, counseling to crime victims & troubled youths, and providing emergency food, shelter, & information to crime victims and non-resident workers. In addition to the $2,500 donation, Karidat also received 400 shirts from SGMA-member United International Corporation.
The Safe & Sober Foundation aims to reduce drunk & drugged driving on CNMI roads. Safe & Sober is spearheaded by the CNMI Department of Public Safety and implements educational programs and conducts crime prevention activities to help reduce drunk and drugged driving on CNMI roads.
The Saipan Garment Manufacturer’s Association represents 30 of the islands’ 33 garment factories. Employing nearly 15,000 people, including 2,400 local residents, garment manufacturing is a driving economic force in the Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands.
