PLEASE BE SURE TO READ "UPDATE 5": THIS GOAL HAS BEEN ACHIEVED AND THE BACKPACKS ARE ON THEIR WAY TO SANTO DOMINGO, DOMINICAN REPUBLIC. THANK YOU FOR YOUR INTEREST AND SUPPORT! "UPDATE 5" ALSO INCLUDES ADDITIONAL INFORMATION ABOUT THIS EFFORT, AS REQUESTED BY GOFUNDME IN ACCORDANCE WITH ITS POLICIES.

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Did you know that $7.50 buys a backpack - fully stocked with needed school supplies - for a child in the Dominican Republic? 

We hope you'll join us in raising the funds necessary to purchase 1,000 backpacks for our friends in the Dominican Republic!! Watch the video above and you will see some of the children who will benefit from these backpacks - whom we met in March during a life-changing goodwill baseball tour with the Juan Guzman Foundation.

If 100 of us donated $75, we would reach our goal!! Please consider funding as many backpacks as you are able. For just $7.50, you will set up one student for success for the coming school year.

Our goal is to fund 1,000 backpacks by Sunday, June 24, to assure delivery to the D.R. in time for an end-of-July school kickoff event. Won't you join us by making a donation today?

To make a donation now, follow the GoFundMe link, and consider sharing this amazing effort with your friends and family!

Help us reach our goal by June 24!!