{"id":281805,"date":"2018-08-08T06:06:00","date_gmt":"2018-08-07T20:06:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/?p=281805"},"modified":"2018-08-08T06:06:00","modified_gmt":"2018-08-07T20:06:00","slug":"empty-vessel-karidat-team-up-for-back-to-school-drive","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/empty-vessel-karidat-team-up-for-back-to-school-drive\/","title":{"rendered":"Empty Vessel, Karidat team  up for back-to-school drive"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_281806\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-281806\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/Back-to-school-pix.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/Back-to-school-pix-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-281806\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-281806\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Group photo shows some of the volunteers at Empty Vessel Ministry Foundation: Junaleen Jose, Rose Smith, Tina Sablan, Neryvan Komaky, Minolta Laniyo, and Lawrence Laniyo.\u00a0 The foundation will be sorting and packing clothes and supplies tomorrow, Aug. 8, between 9am and 12pm.\u00a0(Contributed Photo)\u00a0<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Empty Vessel Ministry Foundation and Karidat are partnering in a back-to-school drive to help kids get a strong start to the new school year. <\/p>\n<p>The community is invited to pitch in with donations of school supplies and clothes in good condition for children and youth (ages 4 \u2013 18).<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe know many families are struggling to make ends meet, and we want to help make sure their [children] start the school year with some of the basic tools they need to succeed,\u201d EVM director Rose Smith said.<\/p>\n<p>Donations may be delivered to Empty Vessel Ministry\u2019s office in Gualo Rai\u00a0on Wednesday\u00a0and\u00a0Friday this week\u00a0from\u00a010am to 3pm, or at Karidat\u2019s office at the Sister Remedios Community Center in Chalan Kanoa from\u00a08am to 5pm\u00a0(including lunch hour) every day through\u00a0Friday.<\/p>\n<p>Donated clothes and school supplies will be distributed from the Sister Remedios Community Center from\u00a08am to 12pm\u00a0on Saturday, Aug. 11. Families with school-age children in need of clothes or supplies are invited to stop by. Donations may also be delivered to the site on that day, between\u00a08am and 10am.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOur newly renovated Sister Remedios Community Center in Chalan Kanoa was made for community outreach projects like this one,\u201d Karidat director Lauri Ogumoro said. \u201cWe thank our partners for their support, and look forward to meeting happy kids\u00a0on Saturday.\u201d <\/p>\n<p>For more information, contact Rose Smith at 483-0162, Lauri Ogumoro at 234-6981, or volunteer Tina Sablan at 285-3935. (PR)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Empty Vessel Ministry Foundation and Karidat are partnering in a back-to-school drive to help kids&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":28,"featured_media":281806,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[1351,163,2027,10171],"class_list":["post-281805","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-local-news","tag-chalan-kanoa","tag-kids","tag-rose-smith","tag-tina-sablan"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/281805","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=281805"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/281805\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/281806"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=281805"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=281805"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=281805"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}