Airline Ambassadors is grateful for support of journalist and television personality Chris Hansen who pioneered reports of human trafficking in Cambodia for Dateline, and is well known for his work with NBC’s To Catch a Predator.
He helped us with our own video on human trafficking awareness in the airline industry and has new shows including Killer Instinct on Investigation Discovery which you can preview HERE.
Stay tuned…..we are working on convincing Chris to join us on a trip to support trafficking victims in Asia!
Foundation for a Slavery Free World and actress Marisol Nichols honored AAI’s Nancy Rivard, as well as John Ryan, CEO of the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children and Kim Biddle of Saving Innocence with a Human Rights Hero Award at an beautiful evening at Beso Restaurant on Sept 21, 2015 in Los Angeles. Keynote addresses by Utah Attorney General Sean Reyes and Tim Ballard of Underground Railroad inspired the star studded event and a night of music and celebration for a world without slavery. AAI LAX Regional Directors, Andrea Hobart and Rebekah Vitale attended the event as well as Association of Flight Attendant Representatives Stephen Schembs and Bonnie Mas.
Laura Glading, president of the flight attendant member union, of the new American Airlines as a result of the merger of US Airways and American. Glading was in Philadelphia on Tuesday to meet with some of the 2,300 US Airways flight attendants based at Philadelphia International Airport. (Photo via Association of Professional Flight Attendants)
Thanks to the Association of Professional Flight Attendants for support of our efforts to combat human trafficking!
Click this LINK for statements from Laura Glading, APFA President as part of the APFA State of the Union Report:
See below Laura’s Leadership Statement on the issue:
“As far as criminal activity goes, human trafficking is amongst the most despicable. The perpetrators are modern day slave dealers operating within a vast and global network. Policing this crime is exceptionally difficult, which is why vigilance on the part of all transportation industry employees is crucial. Flight attendants have the ability to catch human traffickers in the act. With more face-to-face exposure time than probably anyone else a trafficker or victim will encounter during the crime, we have a unique opportunity to identify atrocities as they occur. What we need is comprehensive training and increased awareness so that we can play a more effective role in this fight.
The Association of Professional Flight Attendants is committed not only to preparing our membership to recognize and report suspected instances of human trafficking, but also to raise public awareness of the problem. Flight attendants have thwarted these criminals in the past, but putting an end to human trafficking will require a coordinated and sustained effort as well the commitment of the entire transportation industry.”
-Laura Glading, President of the Association of Professional Flight Attendants
TRAVEL TO DO GOOD TO NICARAGUA
6 Days/5 Nights November 3-8, 2015
Medical/Education Outreach Volunteer Travel Program
Ready to share your professional skills, gifts, talents and desire to serve with the world? Ready to embark on the journey of a lifetime? Nicaragua is the perfect backdrop for our upcoming volunteer travel experience. Join us as we volunteer in partnership with Gran Pacifica and non-profit partner, Help Them Help Themselves, as we serve the medical and education needs of the residents of San Diego, Zapote, California and el Jicaro, the communities that surround Gran Pacifica Resort.
Volunteer Highlights
Volunteer with the Gran Pacifica Health Fair– Volunteer Medical Professional Teams will conduct on site health screenings during the Gran Pacifica Health Fair. For many, this will be their first visit with a medical professional. Spanish translators will be provided however additional volunteer translators will be needed. Volunteers who are passionate about promoting a healthy lifestyle are encouraged to share their knowledge by conducting a 30 minute to 1 hour education workshop, or, you may prefer to:
Teach English to local students and teachers– Teaching English is a very popular volunteer activity for the Help Them Help Themselves organization and Gran Pacifica. Learning to speak English is a much needed skill. Bi lingual speakers have better opportunities in the job market. This volunteer opportunity helps to lay a basic foundation for participants. Help them help themselves by conducting a 2 day Basic English language skills workshop for local primary students and their teachers.
ITINERARY
Day 1 – Arrive in Nicaragua. Prívate transfer to Gran Pacifica
Day 2 – Volunteer Project Group Breakfast and Project Orientation Volunteer teams will be transported to their local project. On Site Lunch
Day 3 – Volunteer Project Group Breakfast and Project Orientation Volunteer teams will be transported to their local project. On Site Lunch
Day 4 – Return to Volunteer project or optional Local Tour- $150 Enjoy a Guided Tour of the historical city of Granada. Lined with Spanish style houses and beautiful old churches, Granada is a delightful town that represents the old world charm and character of the past. End the afternoon with a tour of Lake Nicaragua and Monkey Island. Includes Lunch
Day 5 Free Day – Optional Activities $25 It’s your time. Spend it on your own. 1 activity included: golf, surfing lessons, horseback riding,visit to swimming beach or spa treatment. Group Farewell Dinner
Day 6 – It is now time to Say Goodbye. You have traveled to do good and left your footprint in a positive way. Your life and the lives you have touched will never be the same. Transfer to airport. Depart for flight home
Cost: $850 Per Person – Double Occupancy Includes – 3 Star Accommodations – All local round trip transportation to airport and volunteer activities – Project Donation
About Travel to do Good
AAI is partnering with Travel to do Good for this program in Nicaragua. By aligning your desire to give, with a cause an event or a non-profit partner organization seeking to improve the lives of others, you will have the incredible opportunity to experience your destination in a more meaningful and powerful way.
When you travel to do good……Everyone benefits! For more information contact Roslyn Parker at 888-416-7040 or roslyn@traveltodogood.com
About our Nicaragua Project Partner – Gran Pacifica Beach and Golf Resort
Gran Pacifica Beach and Golf Resort is a unique Spanish Colonial master planned beach community of beach homes, oceanfront condos, golf-front villas and vacation rentals. Gran Pacifica has 3.5 miles of stunning Pacific oceanfront and is located just 1 hour from Managua City/Airport.
The development of Gran Pacifica Beach and Golf Resort has created employment opportunities for the local population. Gran Pacifica and its partners in Nicaragua have employed nearly 500 people over the last six years. They have also created training programs that enable the local community to take full advantage of employment opportunities as they come available.
Gran Pacifica Social Responsibility Initiatives
Since its inception, Gran Pacifica has partnered with local government, community leaders and non-profit organizations including Help Them Help Themselves and Beauty from Ashes.
Their focus is on health and education issues and as a result of their strategic partnerships, they have spearheaded a variety of successful social projects and fundraising initiatives. They are fully engaged and are active partners in the betterment of the local communities that surround the Gran Pacifica Beach and Golf Resort
Gran Pacifica Social Outreach Highlights
As part of their commitment to giving back, Gran Pacifica’s employees, shareholders, vendors and non-profit partners have donated money, medical equipment, personal care items, school supplies, food, shoes and clothing. Listed below are some of the highlights from their outreach efforts;
- Provided support for Daytime safe house inside the trash dump that provides services to the children of La Chureca
- Coordinated in conjunction with Samaritan International,Gran Pacifica donated soya food for the children of the Rafaela Herrera #2 School in March 2015. Soya food is an excellent resource for vitamins and protein
- Distributed food and personal care items to the prisoners of District 2, Managua prison
- Construction of 2 schools
- Built a home for a single grandmother (The house was completely made of plastic bottles, trash and Organic Materials excavated from the Community)
- Provided building courses to the local community to teach locals how to build a home using recycled and organic methods.
- Donated backpacks, school supplies and shoes to every child in the Los Jicaros Community
- Donation of Uniforms to women and men’s soccer teams of Villa El Carmen
- Together with Gran Pacifica’s Property Owner’s Assoc. Soccer and Baseball fields was installed
- Transportation provided for local youth Baseball and Soccer teams
- Transportation and feeding of 55 kids to Baseball game in Managua.
- Workout program for women in the California Community five days per week. Currently there are 20 women currently active in the program
Email Roslyn Parker for details at roslyn@traveltodogood.com or call her at 954-649-2922
Airline Ambassadors is so pleased this year to be chosen as a Combined Federal Campaign Charity # 44822
The Combined Federal Campaign (CFC) is the largest and most successful workplace fundraising campaign in the world. Over the past fifty years, the CFC has raised $7 billion to help neighbors in need around the corner, across the nation and throughout the world. The Combined Federal Campaign of the National Capital Area (CFCNCA) is the local campaign for federal employees in the Washington Metropolitan Area.
Universal Giving (UG) was launched in 2014 and remains active for the 2015 Campaign. Through UG, federal employees can donate to any CFC-approved charity in the country, in addition to the 4,400 local, national, and international charities that are part of the National Capital Area. If, for example, a charity in Louisville is helping your disabled grandmother stay in her home, you can designate all or part of your CFC donation to that charity in Louisville.No matter what causes federal workers cherish, they can find CFC-participating charities that are meaningful to them.
In 2014, federal employees raised over $49 million – funds that provided promising futures, an improved world, and better communities.
See this welcome from President Obama
Airline Ambassadors is honored to be a partner with 3 Strands Global
in the effort to combat Human Trafficking.
We encourage all of our members to join us in the upcoming Runs this fall.
Human Trafficking is NOT OK….
you can DO SOMETHING!
Join us!
if you can’t make it physically, you can still stand with us in solidarity and virtually run and get a TEK shirt!
Saturday, September 12, SAN DIEGO
or
Saturday, September. 26, FOLSOM
or
Saturday, November. 7, OAKLAND
Check out CNN article acknowledging AAI HERE
Despite non-rev frustrations our mission to Haiti for Art Day Celebration was a success Special thanks to Sherry Peters for photography to document the event and for our sponsorship program for Kominote ti Famni Nou de Diakonos Children’s Home. Here is a few pics of kids from the orphanage…..SEE THIS 2015-ADC Recap
Kids for sponsorship
The July Yoga and Nature Charity Mission to Bogota, Colombia July 10 – 13 brightened the lives of 75 children at Orphanage “Rompiendo Cadenas” in Bogota, Colombia.
The AAI team took pictures and short backgrounds on children to initiate a sponsorship program to support education for a positive future! Many thanks to Beyond Measure Media for joining the trip to make a video to promote the program!
