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Group acts to save Chamolinian Village
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Posted on Mar 14 2006
Funding for the operations of the Chamolinian Village in Garapan will cease next month and the Committee to Save Our Chamolinian Village is now working to meet the deadline for the submission of a grant application so that the village will remain open.
Gonzalo Q. Santos, resident executive director for Indigenous Affairs, is representing the CNMI government in the Administration for Natives American Grant Writing Workshop.
Santos is working with Frances Sablan, Joe Limes, Rep. Ray Tebuteb, John Oliver Gonzales and Gordon Marciano to have the grant application submitted on time. Together, they make up the members of the committee.
“The committee is doing its best to keep the programs of the village ongoing, in order to showcase our respective Carolinian and Chamorro cultures,” said Santos. “Every effort is being made to encourage our younger generations to preserve our indigenous cultures and our traditional practices based on the teachings of our elders.”
For those who are interested in saving the Chamolinian Village, they are invited to join the committee in a meeting on March 20, 2006 at 5:30pm at the Chamolinian Village.
“Your suggestions and gestures of support would be invaluable for the grant writing. Time is running out and our chance to receive funding from ANA for the village is at stake,” said Santos.
Call Santos at 664-2480 or anyone on this committee for further information. “We need everyone’s help, ideas and involvement to make this grant writing a success,” he said.
