{"id":219378,"date":"2016-01-26T06:06:15","date_gmt":"2016-01-25T20:06:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/?p=219378"},"modified":"2016-01-26T06:06:15","modified_gmt":"2016-01-25T20:06:15","slug":"jakiir-barcinas-wants-a-life-of-service","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/jakiir-barcinas-wants-a-life-of-service\/","title":{"rendered":"Jakiir Barcinas wants a life of service"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Jakiir<\/a>
Jakiir Barcinas has been part of the Commonwealth Advocates for Recovery Efforts\u2019 post Typhoon Soudelor cleanup since the first day. (Contributed Photo)<\/figcaption><\/figure>
\n\u201cI slept and dreamt that life was joy. I awoke and saw that life was service. I acted and behold, service was joy,\u201d said Indian Nobel Prize Laureate Rabindranath Tagore.<\/p>\n

And this quote could very well sum up Jakiir Barcinas\u2019 present condition after the 16-year-old had been busy doing volunteer work for the past five months now, helping in Saipan\u2019s recovery efforts from Typhoon Soudelor.<\/p>\n

\u201cI\u2019ve lost count on how many cleanups that I\u2019ve joined and I\u2019ve been all over the island. I just like serving and helping others in their recovery efforts. I find joy and satisfaction whenever I\u2019m helping people, especially the poor,\u201d Barcinas said.<\/p>\n

\u201cThat\u2019s the same reason why after graduation I\u2019m entering the U.S. Marine Corps. I want to help people,\u201d added Barcinas, who wants to join humanitarian missions once he finishes with his training.<\/p>\n

He again joined Commonwealth Advocates for Recovery Efforts, representatives from Best Sunshine International, Ltd. and other youth volunteers in another cleanup last Saturday where they covered two areas\u2014Koblerville and Chalan Piao.<\/p>\n

He said that their house in Garapan, on the street just across the 13 Fishermen Monument, suffered minimal damage when Soudelor was battering Saipan with only his father\u2019s room having leaks. One of their neighbors, however, wasn\u2019t fortunate and lost their home.<\/p>\n

\u201cDuring the typhoon I helped one of our neighbors whose house was flooded inside. Then after the typhoon, I volunteered with the American Red Cross where we packed relief goods in the warehouse. I learned that one friend of mine was going to volunteer in the cleanup efforts so I decided to join,\u201d added the Marianas High School sophomore.<\/p>\n

Commonwealth Advocates for Recovery Efforts director Jenny Hegland has praised Barcinas\u2019 commitment and attitude since the first day of the cleanup in October.<\/p>\n

\u201c[Saturday] is our 24th cleanup and he\u2019s been helping us since Day 1. That\u2019s why I specially mentioned him during CARE\u2019s [Tuesday] meeting. He never missed one even though he doesn\u2019t have his own car, that\u2019s why either me or someone from the group always picks him up,\u201d added Hegland.<\/p>\n

Barcinas, who\u2019ll be graduating in 2018, said he would start his basic training at the CNMI Army Reserve Center in Puerto Rico before moving to Guam for another three months of training where he would then await his deployment.<\/p>\n

Barcinas is a member of MHS\u2019 Junior Reserve Officer Training Corps with the rank of Sgt. 1st Class. He is also the commander for the Dolphins\u2019 Exhibition Drill Team.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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