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LOCALWednesday 26 October

Aqua48 Lends a Hand to the Donkey Sanctuary Aruba

BRINGAMOSA - On Thurs-           taurants; decide on the
day, October 20, Aqua            destination of the donation
for Aid (Aqua48) made            by Aqua48. For the first do-
its FOURTH donation, re-         nation, it was decided to
ceived from water sold at        honor SABA’s request for
participating restaurants.       recliner chairs. The second
The donation went to the         donation went to a project
‘Donkey Sanctuary Aruba’.        of sustainable planting for
Representatives of Aqua48,       children of the ‘Kinderhuis
Manon Hekman together            Imeldahof’ (a home for
with representatives of WEB      children who cannot live at
and participating restau-        home anymore). The third
rants gave the donation          donation was for special
to Director, Desiree Elder-      materials for the ‘Funda-
ing. Aqua48 is an initiative     cion Siñami Paso pa Paso
where customers who or-          Aruba’. Now it is the ‘Don-
der water in a restaurant,       key Sanctuary Aruba’s turn,
can choose between free          which has recently moved
water and Aqua48 for             to a new location. They will
1guilder with free refills. The  use the donation to final-
next donation will go to the     ize work that needs to be
Cas Marie Foundation.            done at the new location.
Every quarter, a committee       The next donation for Cas
with representatives from        Marie
WEB Aruba, CEDE Aruba            The Aqua48 donation for
and the participating res-       the next quarter is des-

                                                               tined for the ‘Older People’   by drinking Aqua for Aid
                                                               category. The Cas Marie        (Aqua48) in every partici-
                                                               Foundation was chosen, a       pating restaurant.
                                                               foundation entrusted with      The Aqua48.com website
                                                               the care of patients with      contains more information
                                                               dementia. Cas Marie offers     with regard to the purpose
                                                               guidance, support and/or       and the various projects by
                                                               an opportunity to go and       Aqua48. Charitable organi-
                                                               spend the day during the       zations can apply for a do-
                                                               entire process of demen-       nation through the website.
                                                               tia. The goal of Cas Marie     The donations by Aqua48
                                                               is to, in a positive and pro-  are made possible thanks
                                                               fessional way, add to the      to the support from various
                                                               quality of life of the per-    organizations. WEB Aruba
                                                               son suffering from demen-      supports the project finan-
                                                               tia and his/her family. The    cially and through market-
                                                               Foundation will use the do-    ing. CEDE Aruba helps with
                                                               nation for materials related   the practical part of pro-
                                                               to their neighborhood proj-    cessing the requests for a
                                                               ect, a service that will be    donation. Speakers during
                                                               introduced in the future,      the press conference:
                                                               to guide persons suffering     Manon Hekman, Aqua48.
                                                               from dementia in their own     Desiree Eldering, Donkey
                                                               surroundings and neighbor-     Sanctuary Aruba.
                                                               hood.                          Karim El Attar, Bon Ap-
                                                               The general public is called   petit Cafe (participating
                                                               upon to support this cause     restaurant).q
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