Picture on right is Monique Best, American Eagle flight attendant escorting 5 year old Aydin home to GUA from EWR after facial reconstruction surgery.Note from Director of Children’s Medical Escort Program – Margaret Whitehead:
Isabel Moss and Ron Harris escorted this boy from Honduras scheduled for the same open heart surgery that Ron had a couple of years ago. Isabel brought him TGU/MIA and Ron reassured him on the way to STL. Both Spanish speakers escorted him on the most important journey of his life.
On June 26 we had 7 separate trips to accompany a group of Polish orphans to their host families throughout the U.S. The kids have been selected by an orphan hosting agency in the U.S. to spend over a month with these pre-approved host families to familiarize them with living in a family unit. Since most are teenagers who have lived most of their lives in Polish orphanages, it give them something to look forward to, then provides them with lifelong memories of this very special trip. Our children’s escorts will accompany these kids to Seattle, Omaha, Atlanta, Boston, Newark, Raleigh-Durham, and Bentonville, AR. These trips are all on 26Jun.
Additionally, on 25Jun we will have one of our medical escorts accompanying a 17 year old boy from Honduras to St. Louis where he will have open heart surgery. When the sponsoring agency told me that he was extremely nervous about flying, about his upcoming surgery, and especially about making this trip without his mom, whose visa was denied, I decided to ask Ron Harris, one of our escorts and an AA flight attendant who has had 2 open heart surgeries in the past 5 years and Ron agreed to meet him in Miami and travel with him to St. Louis. This is so good because Ron speaks fluent Spanish and we determined the boy will have the same type surgery Ron had. I was also able to get Isabel Moss, a native Spanish speaker to go to Tegucigalpa and accompany him up to Miami.
Also on 25Jun we will have a medical escort who works in the Tampa Admirals Club escorting a little 4 year old Haitian girl back to Haiti from Atlanta where she had surgery to correct her bladder extrophy. Jacqueline Faust, this escort, brought the little girl here in April and asked to escort her back to her homeland.
