The Nepalese Community of Saipan, in partnership with the Saipan Young Professionals (a committee of the Saipan Chamber of Commerce), will be hosting a \u201cRun For Nepal\u201d event on Saturday, June 6, in front of the Garapan Public Market (Garapan Fishing Base across Kristo Rai Church). They are encouraging community members, students and families to join them as they \u201crun for a cause.\u201d The event will consist of a 5K run from the Garapan Public Market to the former Hakubotan building and back. It is open to all students, families. and community members.<\/p>\n
Funds from this event will go directly to the survivors of the recent Nepal earthquake, through the Nepalese Community of Saipan. Registration fee is $10. Registration forms are available at Java Joe\u2019s in Dandan or at Garapan Fishing Base on the day of the event. The run will begin on June 6 at 5:30am with prizes for the Top 3 finishers!<\/p>\n
\u201cThis is a very worthy cause that we are proud to stand behind,\u201d said SYP chair Mable Ayuyu and co-chair Bobby Cruz of the Saipan Young Professionals Committee.<\/p>\n
If you\u2019d like to participate, volunteer, or donate to this cause, contact Mahesh Thapa, president for the Nepalese Community of Saipan at thapamahesh2002@yahoo.com, Raj Kumar Rai at rajraijuly3@gmail.com, or Mable Ayuyu at natalieayuyu@gmail.com. (SYP)<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" The Nepalese Community of Saipan, in partnership with the Saipan Young Professionals (a committee of…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":18,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[4277,4740,133,4589],"class_list":["post-202743","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-local-news","tag-java-joe","tag-mable-ayuyu","tag-run","tag-saipan-young-professionals"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/202743","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/18"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=202743"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/202743\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=202743"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=202743"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=202743"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}