Titanium Rib Foundation - What does the tooth fairy do with all those teeth? Makes Ribs!

She is making ribs, titanium ribs that is. A percentage of all sales from AmyLou Designs, Inc. goes directly to the foundation.

The Titanium Rib Foundation, established by Amy Beabout, has received 501(C)(3)status approval from the federal government. The foundation directly impacts children and families who receive services through the Titanium Rib Program. Drs. Robert Campbell and Melvin Smith developed the research program in San Antonio, Texas as a response to deadly skeletal and pulmonary syndromes.

The foundation has three primary purposes:

To place beds in patient rooms on the surgical floor at Christus Santa Rosa Hospital in San Antonio, where families stay for extended periods of time.
To financially support families who travel from all over the world to Texas in order to receive surgical treatment.
To provide funding for research to develop computerized implants which could be remotely enlarged, significantly reducing the number of surgical incisions for children.

AmyLou Designs, Inc., a company founded by Beabout, which develops and markets tooth fairy pillows, gives a percentage of all sales to the foundation. Fundraisers also include a cruise through Carnival Cruise lines as well as solicitation.

Children participating in the program can also receive services through Children's Hospital in Seattle, Washington and Children's Hospital in Boston, Massachusetts. Further exploration of needs at these other sites will be determined and funds dispersed accordingly.

Clayton Beabout, a former elementary educator, established the Foundation as a way to meet the needs of fellow families in the program. Beabout's son Clayton, age 8, has been in the program for 3 years. He was accepted because of missing ribs, spinal curvature, a misplaced diaphragm and poor pulmonary function as a result of his VACTR syndrome. With her son, Beabout makes the trip to Texas from her home in Wichita, Kansas twice a year. There, she has encountered other families and identified needs which are not being met through insurance or other avenues. Upon establishing her company, AmyLou Designs, Inc., she decided that a percentage of sales would be given as a consistent funding source for the foundation. Find out more about the Titanium Rib Project by visiting VEPTR.com and theribkids.com.

To help the "riblets", purchase a tooth fairy pillow or contact AmyLou to learn more.