{"id":233766,"date":"2016-08-08T06:00:13","date_gmt":"2016-08-07T20:00:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/?p=233766"},"modified":"2016-08-08T06:00:13","modified_gmt":"2016-08-07T20:00:13","slug":"bsi-csr-celebrates-communitys-resilience","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/bsi-csr-celebrates-communitys-resilience\/","title":{"rendered":"BSI-CSR celebrates community\u2019s resilience"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id='gallery-1' class='gallery galleryid-233766 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-csr-celebrates-communitys-resilience\/bsi-pix-1-11\/'>BSI-pix-1<\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<figcaption class='wp-caption-text gallery-caption' id='gallery-1-233790'>\n\t\t\t\tBest Sunshine International, Ltd.\u2019s Corporate Social Responsibility team stands alongside Lt. Gov. Victor Hocog at the CSR booth at last Saturday\u2019s SOU\u2019Fest at the Marianas Business Plaza. (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-csr-celebrates-communitys-resilience\/bsi-pix-2-12\/'>BSI-pix-2<\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<figcaption class='wp-caption-text gallery-caption' id='gallery-1-233791'>\n\t\t\t\tThe BSI-CSR team assists with the staging of SOU\u2019Fest. (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-csr-celebrates-communitys-resilience\/bsi-pix-3-10\/'>BSI-pix-3<\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<figcaption class='wp-caption-text gallery-caption' id='gallery-1-233792'>\n\t\t\t\tThe BSI-CSR staff assisting members of the public. (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-csr-celebrates-communitys-resilience\/bsi-pix-4-10\/'>BSI-pix-4<\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<figcaption class='wp-caption-text gallery-caption' id='gallery-1-233793'>\n\t\t\t\tPress secretary Ivan Blanco poses with some of the CSR staff at the BSI booth. (Contributed Photo)\n\t\t\t\t<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\n<p>Best Sunshine International, Ltd.\u2019s Corporate Social Responsibility team collaborated with the Commonwealth Advocates for Recovery Efforts in celebrating the community\u2019s resilience and continued recovery following the destruction of Typhoon Soudelor<\/p>\n<p>The BSI-CSR team\u2019s booth at last Saturday\u2019s SOU\u2019Fest at the Marianas Business Plaza offered young chestnut trees, foxtail trees, and fruit trees to the families in attendance\u2014a symbolic and noble gesture to support the community\u2019s work to rebuild and overcome the challenges resulting from the destruction caused by the strongest typhoon that hit Saipan n recent memory.<\/p>\n<p>Many trees were destroyed as a result of Typhoon Soudelor, which gave the BSI-CSR team the motivation to provide such gesture. The team also assisted in setting up the venue and provided water, ice, and fruits for event organizers and attendees.<\/p>\n<p>BSI played a major role in the community\u2019s recovery immediately after Typhoon Soudelor through collaboration with CARE, the Executive branch, the Saipan Mayor\u2019s Office, and numerous nongovernment organizations. <\/p>\n<p>BSI was at the forefront in the immediate aftermath of the typhoon, contributing equipment, manpower, and financial aid totaling to about $500,000 to help the government and the community recover. BSI also provided, among others, over 250 gallons of drinking water and over hundreds of bottled drinking water to those that sought refuge at temporary\/emergency shelters.<\/p>\n<p>In a recent Saipan Chamber of Commerce meeting, CARE president Alex Sablan said that \u201cthe CSR team of Best Sunshine provided excellent support in conjunction with the Mayor of Saipan and Department of Public Works in clearing much of the debris from each village every week since the typhoon. This debris cleaning allowed American Red Cross Disaster Case Management personnel to enter properties and assess the damage to many homes.\u201d (PR)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Best Sunshine International, Ltd.\u2019s Corporate Social Responsibility team collaborated with the Commonwealth Advocates for Recovery&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":28,"featured_media":233790,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[1707,1311,7056,6333],"class_list":["post-233766","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-local-news","tag-best-sunshine-international","tag-bsi","tag-care","tag-typhoon-soudelor"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/233766","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=233766"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/233766\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/233790"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=233766"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=233766"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=233766"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}