We are honored to partner as our local project with Catherine’s Cottage.
Thank you for the incredible donations from Airline Ambassadors members Sharon Lobo, Kavita Nanavati, ML Murray, Sandy Hodges and Nancy Rivard helping to meet the Wish Lists of trafficking victims at the lovely home run by AAI trainer and renowned survivor, Shamere McKenzie. A special surprise was to have labor trafficking survivor Fainess Lipenga join us who was an inspiration!
Kavita Nanavati and Shamere McKenzie
Kavita with Dave and Nancy Rivard
Kavita and the African Queen, Fainess Lupenga
We delivered gifts for all the girls, provided a dinner courtesy of AAI member and Mrs Baltimore, Kavita Nanavati brought homemade lasagna and the team played games, and Santa even showed up. What an evening filled with warmth and love in this beautiful home. It is an inspiration to support a local project of this caliber. The girls talents and interests stood out and we at AAI want to do our best to help. We cannot share pictures of the girls themselves, but here are a few pics of our team during the evening!
Here is the thank you from Shamere McKenzie and comments from some of the girls. (Of course for obvious reasons we cannot post pictures of the girls at the event.)
Hi Nancy, ML, Kavita and Sheron:
Thank you for your generous donations to Catherine’s Cottage first ever Christmas party. When we opened our doors in May of this year, we knew that Christmas would be a tough time for the survivors we have the privilege to serve as some are away from families and some don’t have any family. The staff and friends of The Salvation Army’s Catherine’s Cottage is all they have. However, the team at Airline Ambassadors have made Christmas 2017 the best Christmas some of our ladies have ever had. Some of the comments were:
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“I feel spoiled after this party. If we didn’t get all our gifts yet and this is just the party I can’t wait to see what Christmas will be like.” JN, 27 years old
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“This is the first Christmas I have ever had in my life, I can’t believe they came in the snow just to party with us.” RT, 43 years old
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“I can’t believe people really got gifts for us and they don’t even know us.” JL, 31 years old.
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You all have no idea how your kind words, thoughts and generosity really impact the women we serve. The Salvation Army is truly blessed to have a partnership in place with people like you who can join us in empowering our ladies to see that they are worthy, valuable and most important – human beings. I truly appreciate you all hope this is the beginning of a continued partnership as we continue to serve survivors of human trafficking.
Words truly can’t express my heartfelt thanks and gratitude.
Kindest Regards,
Shamere McKenzie
