{"id":363426,"date":"2022-03-03T06:01:48","date_gmt":"2022-03-02T20:01:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/?p=363426"},"modified":"2022-03-03T06:01:48","modified_gmt":"2022-03-02T20:01:48","slug":"red-cross-trains-90-people-for-hands-only-cpr-eyes-900-more","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/red-cross-trains-90-people-for-hands-only-cpr-eyes-900-more\/","title":{"rendered":"Red Cross trains 90 people for Hands Only CPR, eyes 900 more"},"content":{"rendered":"
Gov. Ralph DLG. Torres joins American Red Cross-NMI Chapter executive director John Hirsh and other Red Cross officials and volunteers in a group photo in front of the Governor\u2019s Office building on Capital Hill yesterday morning. Torres signed a proclamation declaring March as American Red Cross Month. (CONTIBUTED PHOTO)
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American Red Cross-NMI Chapter Disaster manager Juan Diego Tenorio said yesterday that they\u2019ve already trained about 90 people for their Hands Only CPR life-saving initiative and will train 900 more to reach their ambitious goal of 1,000 in the next few months. <\/p>\n

\u201cThis program that we\u2019re doing is going to be free,\u201d said Tenorio during the American Red Cross proclamation signing at the Office of the Governor\u2019s conference room on Capital Hill.<\/p>\n

Tenorio said the more people they can train in the community to help save lives and provide them with a basic skill or providing hands-only CPR, the better chances patients would be in surviving accidents.<\/p>\n

He said that would help the Department of Fire and Emergency Medical Services and many of the CNMI\u2019s first responders. <\/p>\n

\u201cThat\u2019s a very ambitious goal, but it\u2019s not impossible,\u201d Tenorio said.<\/p>\n

He said the American Red Cross-NMI Chapter is only as good as the support they receive from the CNMI government and private partners. Tenorio said their partners and volunteers have been really the key to their success.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe look forward to many, many more years of this partnership and collaboration because, at the end of the day, we\u2019re all going in the same direction and that\u2019s to help the community,\u201d he said. <\/p>\n

Tenorio noted that they have many great volunteers on the island who have gone above and beyond their call to serve the community. He said some of their volunteers were at Ground Zero as front-liners after 9\/11.<\/p>\n

He said they have one volunteer who was actually deployed to the California wildfires and was there for a month, providing logistical support to the operation. <\/p>\n

These were learned yesterday soon after Gov. Ralph DLG Torres declared March as American Red Cross Month. Torres said Red Cross has done an extraordinary job in reaching out to the community and that some of the projects the Red Cross worked with DFEMS was the installation of free smoke alarm on Saipan, Tinian, and Rota. <\/p>\n

\u201cThose actions really save lives,\u201d Torres said. <\/p>\n

The governor said the Red Cross was one of the first recipients of the American Rescue Plan Act funding and was the largest recipients at the time. <\/p>\n

\u201cThank to all of you for your partnership. Thank you for making a big impact on our community. As one community, we are stronger together,\u201d Torres said. <\/p>\n

Red Cross NMI executive director John Hirsh, wo has been with Red Cross for almost 20 years now, said that it\u2019s their incredible volunteers and partners that enable the Red Cross to be successful.<\/p>\n

\u201cWithout our volunteers, and without the generosity of everyone in the community, we wouldn\u2019t be strong, and we wouldn\u2019t be able to respond to these catastrophic events on our shores and throughout the nation,\u201d Hirsh said. <\/p>\n

He said they\u2019ve deployed volunteers to California for the wildfires and throughout the nation.<\/p>\n

He said that, with their global and regional partners, they\u2019ve been able to help the families in Tonga impacted by the underwater volcano eruption.<\/p>\n

Hirsh said the Red Cross has also sent 30 volunteers (not from the CNMI) into Eastern Europe to work on different military installations to provide support for service members.<\/p>\n

He said they are also working with the Ukrainian Red Cross and other partners in neighboring countries such as the Hungarian Red cross to ensure that they are providing humanitarian aid to many Ukrainian refugees.<\/p>\n

\u201cI\u2019ve always feel just privileged to be part of not only of our local team here, but part of this global movement, that we can leverage resources, financial and human resources to really, really make a difference in the world,\u201d Hirsh said.<\/p>\n

American Red Cross-NMI board chair Mable Glenn said their focus going into their third year with the COVID-19 pandemic is fundraising and getting back their feet to be able to provide all these programs and services.<\/p>\n

Glenn said this month they are focusing on educating the community on their different programs and services.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe\u2019re going to be spotlighting our volunteers and encouraging people that are maybe afraid to volunteer, maybe they don\u2019t have the time, or they don\u2019t know how,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n

The Red Cross has about 170 volunteers on Saipan alone. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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