CAN YOU HELP

7 ways to donate below. PLUS info on our charity and our donation success BELOW

NEW "Canadian Tire money for supplies"
Live in Canada and what to help? CLICK HERE

NEW "Tesco Couponds for school supplies"
Live in the UK and want to help? CLICK HERE

NEW "Donations for the Children"
Live anywhere and want to help? CLICK HERE
and make a small paypal or MC or VISA doantion
(please send me an Email right after donation letting me know that it's for the Kids) rusty@riubambu.com

NEW "Rusty's Clothing"
Buy our clothing and help the kids? CLICK HERE
(for each item you buy, we donate $1.00 to the kids)

NEW "Rusty's Ice Cubes and Glow STUFF"
Buy our cool items and help the kids? CLICK HERE
(For every order, we donate $1.00 to the kids)

Drop off items at your resort!!!
Now available at the
Puerto Plata Riu Guests can drop off items at the
Riu Bachata (Instructions below)

Not going to Puerto Plata?
No problem,

You can
1) Send us Canadian Tire Money (See Below)
2) Make a PayPal / MC or Visa donation (See below)

CLICK HERE

Any donation amount will go to paint for 9 shcools!!

NEW !!
We are now collecting Canadian Tire Money to buy items for the Children and their schools.

Canadian Tire Money can be mailed to

Rusty Shaikh
PO BOX 332
Gananoque Ontario
K7G-2T8
CANADA

Donate to the children

Rusty's Unofficial Riu Website

Presents.....

Foundacion Patricia

Hi Folks, I have some great news! It must be fait…… I have been searching for months now for a charity to assist for our DR travelers. On the 3rd day at the Riu Bachata I ran into the Resort Director Ramon Ripoll. He was fully aware of our website and took me into his office and asked us to help assist the organization called Fundacion Patria

MORE INFO ON THIS CHARITY
((FYI- The man with the Children in Ramon Ripoll))

Ramon Ripoll is also the President of this organization. They help 10’s of thousands of kids each and every year including building schools, and teaching children. They are really awesome.

The best part is that he has requested that we drop off items at the front desk of the Riu Bachata or can be given to him in person.

So, if you are staying at the Riu Mambo or the Riu Merengue, just take a short walk to the Riu Bachata reception and hand in at the front desk or directly to the Riu Bachata Director / Fundacion Patria President Ramon Ripoll. Riu Bachata guests just go to your reception and hand in at the front desk or directly to the Riu Bachata Director / Fundacion Patria President Ramon Ripoll.

Please clearly make your packages as follows:

From: (Your name) (Your Resort and Room number)
Rusty’s Unofficial Riu Website Member

To: Fundacion Patria
Att: Ramon Ripoll (Director, Riu Bachata)

{followed by a small list of items that are in your package}

All the above info is needed to keep track of donations

Here is a small list of some items need. A larger more complete list will be posted ASAP

Children’s items needed include

Pencils
erasers
Pens
Crayons
Markers
Batteries
Soap
Shampoo
Tooth paste
(Ask your local dentist for donated items)
Tooth brushes
(Ask your local dentist for donated items)
Clothing
Toys
Note books
(More to come)

We are also working on a project in Punta Cana, I will keep you posted.

This is a great day for our website. Cheers. Rusty
Rusty's Unofficial Riu Website.

Hi Folks, This is an update for the Puerto Plata children's fund. This is where your donations are going. Thanks for all that have helped. Cheers. Rusty

you know the foundation email: fundapatria@verizon.net.do and the hotel.. clubhotel.bachata@riu.com

we need as much schools supplies as possible.. the 15 the of July we starts big donation till the end of august, so the kids have it ready to go to school in September...

Also for anyone whom wants to help.. we are taking cash or paint ... so through the summer that the kids are out of schools, we will paint aprox. 9 schools that are in very bad conditions...
each school cost aprox. $ 900.00 US dollars...

Also, June 1st. we starts the construction of the first cyber library of Puerto Plata.. this project is valued at 10 millions pesos... and if anyone is interested in helping will be very much appreciated, we even take one block if anyone wants to donate for this... thousands of public schools kids and university students will benefit from this project...

when you come down, I would like to show you the whole project...

check us out in www.RiuBambu.com

talk to you soon and thanks for all your help....

Ramon Ripoll

More correspondence

ok, you could find painter more or less expensive, but in our situation we have people that have been working for us the last three years and they do a very good job... and we pay 50 dollars a day...

so 2 painters in three days will charge 300 usd. therefore will cost 50.00 usd a day..to each painter..

talk to you ...

Ramon

I like your idea...

from many schools that need to be fixed, we are taking 9 schools that need the most... so I said 900 usd., that is 600 usd for paint and the rest for the workers..

one container of five gallons cost 1,600 pesos so in dollars, it is aprox. 50 usd...each container of five gallons of paint..

thank you very much for the note.. peter...

Ramon Ripoll

Here are some photos of us donation a money order to the President of FP Ramon Ripoll
The donation presentation was made by our senior member JLO!! Thanks JLO

As of September 01, 2006 we have raised over $1100.00USD in cash and items. Keep it coming!!! Cheers. Rusty

AS OF OCT 27th, 2006 we have raised $155.00 in Canadian Tire Money for the children of Puerto Plata and other areas.

AWESOME!!! Joyce!! We just donated another $250.00 to FP.
Congrats to everyone!!! Keep up the good work!!