On Friday, April 17, 151 Tan Holdings employees/volunteers joined the rest of the island in the CNMI Island Wide Clean up project (headed by the organization Beautify CNMI).
President, Jerry Tan sent this message to all volunteers:
Our dear Tan Holdings employee-VOLUNTEERS:
I am very happy to say THANK YOU to all who volunteered at Friday’s Islandwide Clean-up in support of Earth Day celebration. As you know, it was a project of Beautify CNMI, not Tan Holdings.
But I am very pleased to see so many of you at that early morning hour and everybody doing their fair share of the work.
Instead of the planned two hours, our numbers and teamwork helped us get the job done in just one hour.
Overall, there were 151 volunteers from Tan Holdings and we hauled about 147 bags of trash.
You saw the type of trash we collected and put away – rubber tires, bottles (even broken pieces), styro and plastics (bags, bottles, etc – all nonbiodegrable), piles of dead branches or plants that become eyesore and promote growth of flies and insects.
All of these are hazards to our health, the peaceful enjoyment of our beaches, and the fact that they will remain as trash on our soil for years and years to come. We should be proud of what great change each of us have contributed to – with just 1 hour of our Friday morning!
I strongly emphasize the value I personally place on volunteerism – employees spending personal time to do community work. I started in 2008, and we recognized 5 employees as the Outstanding Volunteers.
There are so many organizations on the island who need our help.
I will continue to personally exemplify the rewards of volunteerism – the satisfaction of being part of what makes the community better, seeing hope in people that are helped along the way, and keeping myself active physically and mentally apart from my daily routine job.
To those who already have begun, thank you and keep going on!
To those who have yet to start, find your passion and interest and look up organizations with the same mission.
Sign up and start volunteering today!
Again, thank you to our Tan Holdings TEAM!
Jerry Tan
President