Skywalker Communications head: We must protect our women, kids

Skywalker Communications Group managing director Dr. Hu Bo believes that there’s still to be thankful for in life especially for the women and children. He said women gives life while the kids carry our hopes for a better future.

“This is why it is important that we do what we can to protect and keep them safe,” added Bo, whose group is the main organizer and sponsor of the CNMI Liberation Day Festivites.

Bo added that we must be passionate about the protection of women and children. That’s why he is fully supporting the purpose of local mixed martial organization Trench Tech Promotions.

“I support the purpose of the MMA and other similar sports entertainment program and the discipline of mind and body that it teaches. However, this is not the only reason I decided to feature it at the Liberation festival grounds,” added Bo.

According to Bo, the Skywalker Communications believes in the protection of women’s and children’s rights and wellbeing. “Not many will help women and children when they are being bullied or abused so they must also learn to protect themselves.”

“My hope is that they learn a few pointers on how to protect themselves through watching the exhibition last Saturday. All over the world, women and children are harmed by strangers, friends, and [sometimes] family [members],” said Bo. “We need to do our part to stop [the violence], especially here in our islands.”

Saipan Mayor David M. Apatang agrees. “We need to enforce the zero tolerance law on domestic and sexual and all forms of violence to the fullest extent. We need to have and implement an anti-bullying law.”

“For the sake of our children, for the sake of our people, I am calling on members of our Legislature to introduce a law that will make bullying a criminal offense.”

Apatang and Bo laud the efforts of the likes of Maisie Bermudes Tenorio, Kiki Igitol, and Cuki Alvarez and his family in dedicating their time and made it their mission to educate the community about the issue.

“Being a teen these days is not easy. Being a women these days is not easy too,” adds Bo. ”There is enough pressure to be like the ladies you see on TV and in magazines. There is enough pressure to be cool and accepted by others. You are constantly judged and compared.”

“It is a stressful life. Being bullied and abused adds to that stress. Sometimes it gets too much that people become the violator or take the easy way out. We need to stop the cycle.”

Alvarez, MMA organizer and promoter, shares similar views about bullying and the need for teens to learn the basics to self-protection. “There are lots of kids on Saipan that have no direction.”

“They have no plans; some of them get in trouble fighting outside. So, when I created Trench Tech I had lots of kids coming and changing their lives by learning how to be disciplined, to respect each other. The people who learn our sport become better people,” says Alvarez.

In 2004 Alvarez invited Kato Tetsuji, a Japanese trainer, to the CNMI to teach various MMA techniques. For six years, the duo continued to touch and change the lives of the youth on Saipan.

Skywalker Communications is looking forward to working closely with Alvarez to create programs that will benefit CNMI’s women and youth and as well as create and promote more sports entertainment in the CNMI. (PR)