{"id":327541,"date":"2020-08-04T06:00:42","date_gmt":"2020-08-03T20:00:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/?p=327541"},"modified":"2020-08-04T06:00:42","modified_gmt":"2020-08-03T20:00:42","slug":"4800-disposable-face-masks-donated-to-nmti","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/4800-disposable-face-masks-donated-to-nmti\/","title":{"rendered":"4,800 disposable face masks donated to NMTI"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_327542\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-327542\" style=\"width: 600px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/NMTI-pix.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-327542\" src=\"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/NMTI-pix.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"450\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-327542\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Tzu Chi Foundation volunteer Masako Ono presents a donation of 4,800 disposable face masks to the Northern Marianas Trade Institution yesterday. (CHEVY ALIPIO)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>A non-government organization in Taiwan donated yesterday a total of 4,800 disposable face masks to the Northern Marianas Trade Institution for the upcoming school year.<\/p>\n<p>Tzu Chi Foundation volunteer Masako Ono said the foundation has also donated to the Chalan Kanoa Diocese, the Public School System\u2019s Special Education program, the Maturana House of Prayer, and the Commonwealth Healthcare Corp.<\/p>\n<p>NMTI chief executive officer Agnes McPhetes said the donation \u201cis a great blessing for us because we don\u2019t really have the money to purchase these things, and we definitely need this for our upcoming school year for our students and faculty.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe are also working with the COVID-19 Task Force to see what help we could get from them to be prepared when we open our school,\u201d McPhetes added.<\/p>\n<p>The Tzu Chi Foundation has already given protective gear in 86 countries and regions, including the CNMI, during the COVID-19 pandemic.<\/p>\n<p>The Tzu Chi Foundation started 55 years ago in Taiwan and developed into a global NGO that has extended help to over 116 countries around the world.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI have joined the Tzu Chi Foundation in our Japan branch office as a volunteer since I was in Japan,\u201d Ono said.<\/p>\n<p>McPhetres said that NMTI\u2019s tentative date to open is on Sept. 14, 2020. \u201cThe trade school will be doing hands-on learning. We will make sure our students that apply here will get tested and instructors as well. We also have requested thermometers, so that if they come in and out of the facility, they will be checked.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A non-government organization in Taiwan donated yesterday a total of 4,800 disposable face masks to&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":327542,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[479],"class_list":["post-327541","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-local-news","tag-nmti"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/327541","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\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=327541"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/327541\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/327542"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=327541"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=327541"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=327541"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}