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PIC presents $6K to Guma Esperansa
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Posted on Aug 30 2011
Pacific Islands Club Saipan presented yesterday to Guma Esperansa the $6,000 it raised from Saturday’s Palooza event.
PIC general manager Hiro Sugie and resident manager Deidre Halstead presented the donation to Karidat executive director Angie Guerrero and Guma Esperansa manager Laurie Ogumoro.
Halstead said the PIC Saipan staff and management are honored to support Guma Esperansa through their Palooza event.
“We hope this contribution will help Guma Esperansa to continue to provide the essential services and assistance within our community,” said Halstead.
Ogumoro said they are thankful to have been chosen as the beneficiary for this year’s PIC Palooza.
“We’re very thankful to them thinking of us, all the people who bought tickets and all those who went there and enjoyed themselves. We’re very, very thankful and glad that it’s such a huge success,” she told Saipan Tribune.
Ogumoro said the Palooza event and donation is “a great kickoff” for the 10th anniversary of the CNMI’s only shelter for victims of domestic violence and human trafficking.
She said that Guma Esperansa currently serves 11 women and 13 children.
“They always need something,” said Ogumoro. “They need to know that we can always take care of their needs and help these women and children.”
While they haven’t identified specific projects to which the donation will be used, Ogumoro noted that the shelter has unfunded projects that need funding such as cost of getting birth certificates and other documents or the cost of medicine for victims who don’t have insurance.
Ogumoro said that they can also use it to pay their utility bills, which can go as much as $8,000 a month “and that’s even when everything is turned off.”
The donation, therefore, is of great help, according to Ogumoro. “We’ve already exhausted our donation money so it’s nice that we kind of replenished it. We’re just very grateful to the community for their ongoing support.”
