{"id":268646,"date":"2018-01-25T06:00:41","date_gmt":"2018-01-24T20:00:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/?p=268646"},"modified":"2018-01-25T06:00:41","modified_gmt":"2018-01-24T20:00:41","slug":"mcdonalds-donates-3k-karidat","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/mcdonalds-donates-3k-karidat\/","title":{"rendered":"McDonald\u2019s donates $3K to Karidat"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_268673\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-268673\" style=\"width: 900px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/McDonalds-pix.jpg\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-268673\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Karidat Social Services is presented a check for $3,000 by McDonald\u2019s Saipan officials last Tuesday at the McDonald\u2019s Middle Road branch. (Kimberly A. Bautista)<br \/><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>McDonald\u2019s Saipan donated $3,000 to Karidat Social Services last Tuesday. <\/p>\n<p>According to McDonald\u2019s Middle Road general manager Joe Ayuyu Jr., his family has always been supportive of Karidat and its services. <\/p>\n<p>Last Tuesday, Ayuyu met with Karidat representatives for the first time to discuss the organization\u2019s goals and to give him a better understanding of what they offer the community. <\/p>\n<p>He said it\u2019s only fair for businesses to give back to organizations like Karidat. \u201cI would like to challenge all businesses to also find ways to help Karidat. It\u2019s the economy and the community that gives us our success so we want to return the success.\u201d <\/p>\n<p>Karidat is also special to him as a loved one has been availing of Karidat\u2019s services. <\/p>\n<p> \u201cI can\u2019t give any names\u2026but I can say that there is somebody who is pretty close to us that avails of the services of Karidat and we\u2019re very happy there is an organization like that to help people in need,\u201d he said. <\/p>\n<p>He promises to continue to support Karidat for the kind of work they do. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe want to support organizations such as Karidat that focus on helping [the] less fortunate,\u201d he said. <\/p>\n<p>Karidat administrator Judith Pangelinan, who represented Karidat during the donation event last Tuesday, said they are very appreciative of the support.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe always welcome any donation. Anything that we get and we receive, it\u2019s always being given back to the community. Nothing is left behind,\u201d she said. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>McDonald\u2019s Saipan donated $3,000 to Karidat Social Services last Tuesday. According to McDonald\u2019s Middle Road&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":24,"featured_media":268673,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[4218,8758,2948,1306],"class_list":["post-268646","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-local-news","tag-joe-ayuyu-jr","tag-judith-pangelinan","tag-last-tuesday","tag-middle-road"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/268646","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\/24"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=268646"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/268646\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/268673"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=268646"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=268646"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=268646"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}