{"id":230079,"date":"2016-06-16T06:00:19","date_gmt":"2016-06-15T20:00:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/?p=230079"},"modified":"2016-06-16T06:00:19","modified_gmt":"2016-06-15T20:00:19","slug":"bsi-dps-rehabilitate-gualo-rai-youth-center","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/bsi-dps-rehabilitate-gualo-rai-youth-center\/","title":{"rendered":"BSI, DPS rehabilitate Gualo Rai Youth Center"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id='gallery-1' class='gallery galleryid-230079 gallery-columns-3 gallery-size-thumbnail'><figure class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<div class='gallery-icon '>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/bsi-dps-rehabilitate-gualo-rai-youth-center\/gualo-pix-1\/'>Gualo-pix-1<\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<figcaption class='wp-caption-text gallery-caption' id='gallery-1-230091'>\n\t\t\t\tThe BSI CSR team and DPS cadets pose after successfully painting the Gualo Rai Youth Center.\n(Contributed Photo)\n\t\t\t\t<\/figcaption><\/figure><figure class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<div class='gallery-icon '>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/bsi-dps-rehabilitate-gualo-rai-youth-center\/gualo-pix-2\/'>Gualo-pix-2<\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<figcaption class='wp-caption-text gallery-caption' id='gallery-1-230092'>\n\t\t\t\tBSI staff painting the concrete flower pots that surround the youth center.\t\n(Contributed Photo)\n\t\t\t\t<\/figcaption><\/figure><figure class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<div class='gallery-icon '>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/bsi-dps-rehabilitate-gualo-rai-youth-center\/gualo-pix-3\/'>Gualo-pix-3<\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<figcaption class='wp-caption-text gallery-caption' id='gallery-1-230093'>\n\t\t\t\tDPS cadet Iris Rangamar applying paint on the center\u2019s window sills. (Contributed Photo)\n\t\t\t\t<\/figcaption><\/figure><figure class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<div class='gallery-icon '>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/bsi-dps-rehabilitate-gualo-rai-youth-center\/gualo-pix-4\/'>Gualo-pix-4<\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<figcaption class='wp-caption-text gallery-caption' id='gallery-1-230094'>\n\t\t\t\tDPS cadets cleaning the walls before applying a fresh coat of paint. (Contributed Photo)\n\t\t\t\t<\/figcaption><\/figure><figure class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<div class='gallery-icon '>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/bsi-dps-rehabilitate-gualo-rai-youth-center\/gualo-pix-5\/'>Gualo-pix-5<\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<figcaption class='wp-caption-text gallery-caption' id='gallery-1-230095'>\n\t\t\t\tBefore and after shot of the walkway at the Gualo Rai Children\u2019s Park &amp; Youth Center. (Contributed Photo)\n\t\t\t\t<\/figcaption><\/figure><figure class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<div class='gallery-icon '>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/bsi-dps-rehabilitate-gualo-rai-youth-center\/gualo-pix-6\/'>Gualo-pix-6<\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<figcaption class='wp-caption-text gallery-caption' id='gallery-1-230096'>\n\t\t\t\tBefore and after shot of the back entrance at the Gualo Rai Children\u2019s Park &amp; Youth Center. (Contributed Photo)\n\t\t\t\t<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\n<p>The Gualo Rai Youth Center looks almost the same today as it was when it was first built in March 2003\u2014thanks to the generosity of Best Sunshine International, Ltd.\u2019s Corporate Social Responsibility, whose continued community work has given a new and fresh look to public infrastructures and facilities in the Commonwealth.<\/p>\n<p>The Gualo Rai Youth Center has been the venue for community activities, programs, and events.<\/p>\n<p>It was BSI CSR executive director Rita Chong who reached out to Special Assistant for Youth Affairs Shelane Borja for the project and the massive rehabilitation work began last weekend. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt was during the Koblerville Village Pride Project when we established our partnership,\u201d Chong said. \u201cAfter our CSR team aided with the rehabilitation of the Koblerville Youth Center, we asked the Youth Affairs Office if they needed further assistance with any other youth centers. Shelane (Borja) had mentioned that their Gualo Rai facility needed some work done so here we are today in collaboration with the DPS cadets providing our help.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>BSI CSR team jointly collaborated with the Department of Public Safety, which assisted them with the exterior painting of the building.<\/p>\n<p>But Chong says the work doesn\u2019t stop there.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe\u2019ve accomplished our goal today by completing the exterior painting of the building. Our next project is to help with the tiling of the center,\u201d Chong stated. \u201cIt\u2019s our pleasure to provide this assistance, especially at this time because summer is here and we want the kids in this area to utilize this facility.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Youth Affairs special assistant Shelane Borja is grateful for the assistance that BSI and DPS have provided, especially because the Gualo Rai Youth Center has never been revamped since it was built.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe are glad that the BSI corporate social responsibility team and the DPS cadets came in today to refurbish our building. The exterior paint has been the same since the building was built in March of 2003. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt definitely looks a lot better now,\u201d Borja said. \u201cMy team and I would like to thank BSI and DPS for the help that they\u2019ve provided. We\u2019re extremely fortunate to establish this partnership with both BSI and DPS. With this, we provide our kids with a center that\u2019s safe and beautiful. Again, thank you guys so much for all the help.\u201d <strong>(PR)<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Gualo Rai Youth Center looks almost the same today as it was when it&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":28,"featured_media":230091,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[1311,35,163,3989],"class_list":["post-230079","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-local-news","tag-bsi","tag-dps","tag-kids","tag-shelane-borja"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/230079","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\/28"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=230079"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/230079\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/230091"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=230079"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=230079"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=230079"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}