{"id":5017,"date":"2017-12-04T11:18:09","date_gmt":"2017-12-04T19:18:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/origin-www.parsons.com\/?p=5017"},"modified":"2021-09-20T10:58:21","modified_gmt":"2021-09-20T17:58:21","slug":"parsons-safety-manager-helps-build-bridge-thats-lifeline-panamanian-village","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.parsons.com\/2017\/12\/parsons-safety-manager-helps-build-bridge-thats-lifeline-panamanian-village\/","title":{"rendered":"Parsons Safety Manager Helps Build Bridge That\u2019s a Lifeline for Panamanian Village"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Division safety manager Dan Hughes, along with 10 other Parsons team members, went to Panama to build a 47-meter bridge spanning a river. The bridge connects the approximately 200 residents of the remote village of Rio Grande to a bus to the nearest city.<\/p>\n
For Hughes, who has also done humanitarian work in Haiti, the experience was both fulfilling and empowering.<\/p>\n
\u201cIf you have any inkling to help people, just step up,\u201d Hughes told his alma mater, Columbia Southern University. \u201cIt is a completely different perspective coming from the U.S. where we have all our basic needs at our fingertips than going into a place like Rio Grande, miles away from anything that even resembles an established community.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Division safety manager Dan Hughes, along with 10 other Parsons team members, went to Panama to build a 47-meter bridge spanning a river. The bridge connects the approximately 200 residents […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":15,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"content-type":"","_relevanssi_hide_post":"","_relevanssi_hide_content":"","_relevanssi_pin_for_all":"","_relevanssi_pin_keywords":"","_relevanssi_unpin_keywords":"","_relevanssi_related_keywords":"","_relevanssi_related_include_ids":"","_relevanssi_related_exclude_ids":"","_relevanssi_related_no_append":"","_relevanssi_related_not_related":"","_relevanssi_related_posts":"11684,12308,13272,5283,878,966","_relevanssi_noindex_reason":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5017","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-press-release"],"yoast_head":"\n