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EVM to host ‘A Night of Giving’ at Street Market
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Posted on Aug 26 2014
Empty Vessel Ministry will host “A Night of Giving” at the Garapan Street Market this Thursday as it partners with the Commonwealth Health Center to provide free medical screenings for hypertension and type II diabetes as well as consultation with doctors.
Other partners in the event include Hardt Eye Clinic, which will provide free eye screenings, Marianas Visiting Nurses and Marianas Health, who have nurses volunteering to help the Commonwealth Health Center team of doctors and nurses from CHC.
EVM founder and director Rose Smith noted that Northern Marianas College nursing students have also volunteered.
The team from CHC includes doctors Esther Kanajorn, Jean Olivia Grant, Jules Smith, and John Doyle as well as Helen William (NP) and Erin Dean (PA), according to Smith.
On top of the free screenings, Smith said EVM is also asking the community’s help to donate school supplies and shoes to help families in need before school starts next week.
According to Smith, the school supplies will be sent to schools on Rota, and the shoe donations will available to families in need at EVM’s office along Middle Road.
Smith thanks CHC chief executive officer Esther Muña for her approval of the event as well as the Department of Community and Cultural Affairs.
Smith believes the screenings will help people as she notices positive changes in member at their regular monthly meetings for women where screenings are provided as well.
“Some [members] get healthier, and there are some [who were] not even aware that they are diabetic,” she said of the benefits of screening.
In an interview, Kanajorn and Smith thanked CHC’s Muna and others as the event would not have been possible without her approval and the assistance of others from CHC like Jesse Tudela, Janet Guerrero, Becky Robles, and Trina Sablan.
