Kavita at Nationals
Kavita Nanavati is an AAI human trafficking awareness trainer and also the reigning Mrs. District of Columbia USA Ambassadors title holder, and her platform is Human Trafficking Awareness. She competed for the title for Mrs. U.S.A. Ambassador at the 2018 U.S.A. Ambassadors Nationals event in Palm Harbor, Florida on July 29th, 2018.
New Combating Trafficking in Persons C-TIP reporting app
The “TIP Line” reporting app is a core component of our efforts to combat human trafficking at airports. Developed by AAI with technology partners Georgia Tech and The University of Washington DC, TIP Line securely transmits suspected trafficking incidents between qualified reporters and law enforcement. TIP Line swiftly registers users featuring end-to-end, peer-to-peer encrypted communication capabilities – bottom line – it has saved lives.
Airline Ambassadors has been in the forefront of preventing human trafficking in the aviation industry and has educated over 7,000 front line professionals to identify human trafficking at airports around the world. With support from the U. S. Congress and in consultation with DHS, UNODC, INTERPOL and local law enforcement, AAI has spearheaded efforts in the fight against human trafficking from the FAA Re-authorization Act to ICAO’s Circular 352.
Go to the Google Play or iTunes Store on your Windows phone or tablet download the free “TIP Line” app.
Many local law enforcement agencies use apps to encourage citizens to report. The AAI app provides “data rich” information to law enforcement, which includes location, photos, video, record and text. The app also memorializes the national tip hotlines, including DHS, the National Human Trafficking Hotline (Polaris) or 911 in lieu of calling the more responsive airport law enforcement operation centers.
Google Play: http://apps.appypie.com/media/appfile/a6a678f66a5c.apk
Itunes: http://apps.appypie.com/app/download-plist/appId/a6a678f66a5c
Airport management has noticed that national tip hotlines are not optimal in an airport environment that demands time sensitive peer-to-peer anonymized reporting standards. AAI developed the smartphone application (“app”) “TIP Line” for our trained front line personnel to report suspicious persons who might be involved in this growing crime in real time.
AAI’s TIP Line helps airlines demonstrate training compliance and educates employees about this fast growing criminal industry. Thanks for support from the Association of Professional Flight Attendants and Association of Flight Attendants.
AAI’s TIP Line has now been updated to a version 2.0, developed by Georgia Technical University. As the original TIP Line version (1.0) is available to the general public, version 2.o requires a log in number from AAI’s front line airport and law enforcement trafficking training graduates. Version 2.0 assures law enforcement that tips coming from this app are delivered by trained professionals. The registered 2.0 version automatically connects the reporter to the correct local airport operations law enforcement center using an encrypted geo-location feature anywhere in the world. Similar to version 1.0, version 2.0 also enables anonymized reporting and conforms to the latest NIST (National Institute of Standards and Technology) Encryption Standards.
Identifying and Reporting Human Trafficking
KNOW THE INDICATORS
Indicator 1: The person has no control of his or her travel and identification documents.
Indicator 2: The person has no freedom of movement or social interaction.
Indicator 3: The person has no logical means of reaching, or lacks knowledge of his or her final destination.
Indicator 4: A child traveler does not seem to be accompanied by his or her parent or legitimate guardian.
Don’ts
Do not confront the suspected trafficker or suspected victim.
Do not draw unnecessary attention to the suspected trafficker or suspected victim that may alert them to your suspicions.
Do’s
Do report your observations. In addition to submitting video alerts, call the DHS tip line, you will be asked:
– Airline, flight number, and seat number;
– If the individual is currently in-flight;
– Arrival city and estimated time of arrival;
– Identities (names, citizenship, etc.) of suspected victims and/or suspected traffickers; – Physical descriptions of the suspected victims and traffickers; and indicator(s) you saw or heard.
TIP LINES
Call 866-347-2423 toll free in U.S. and Canada, 24 hour a day
Call 802-872-6199 (tolls apply) in any country in the world, 24 hours
We also suggest you call :
National Human Trafficking Hotline at 1-888-373-7888 and or 911
Another service to report an incident you are witnessing lets you take a picture of the person you suspect is in danger and text it to 909-ALERT-US (909-253-7887) where Bashpole will search for the person in their database and alert authorities. You can read more about this service here.
email nancy@airlineamb.org to order one of our Flash Cards with the TIP # :
FLIGHT DECK COMMUNICATIONS
Follow your airline’s policy to report a tip immediately. This could be through ACARS or the Domestic Event Network (DEN) FAMS There may be a Federal Air Marshall (FAM) on your flight. While the FAM’s primary concern is aviation security, you may inform him or her of suspected human trafficking – if you can do so without compromising the FAM’s anonymity. Because of the sensitivity of the FAM’s mission, use the option only as a last resort.
Thank you for your support stopping HUMAN SLAVERY
See these news stories on July 27 crediting flight attendants on Hawaiian Air for saving three victims of human trafficking!
Although this turned out not to be trafficking, we salute their alertness. 
Flight attendants report suspicious incident on Honolulu flight | TheHill
No charges filed in case of suspected human trafficking on board …
Hawaiian Airlines has updated its blog post that claimed three flight attendants helped tostop a human trafficking case on a flight to Honolulu.
The three Hawaiian Airlines flight attendants that helped stop this human traffickingcase. HONOLULU (KITV) -. A man suspected of human …
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Beloved Ina Melen – one of Airline Ambassadors stars passed away suddenly and will be dearly missed. Ina was a true Ambassador of Goodwill and a delight to everyone who met her. She promoted Airline Ambassadors in Boston and around the world. She brightened the lives of orphans in Colombia and volunteered regularly for our Children’s Medical Escort program. Anyone who knew Ina was touched by her enthusiasm, love for life, impeccable grooming and pride in being an American Airlines flight attendant.. We are dedicating our next mission to South Africa in her name – and bringing her spirit with us. Below is her obituary in the Boston Globe.
INA MELEN, Ina S. Of Newton, on July 15, 2018. Beloved wife of Ralph Melen. Devoted mother of Debra Fields and her husband Elwyn, Nathan Melen and his wife Shana. Loving grandmother of Matthew and Hannah Fields, and Daisy 
Melen. Dear sister of Fred Butt. Ina was very much a career woman. Before her marriage to Ralph, she was a stewardess with the former Northeast Airlines. With marriage forcing retirement from that position, she married Ralph, mothered two children and continued in the business field working for Polaroid in marketing, following which she became a promotional advocate for Estee Lauder. After guiding her children through college and with her continued interest in flying, Ina joined American Airlines as a flight attendant for 23 years, retiring in 2013. Ina loved fashion and relations with people, so those work connections certainly accommodated that passion. Family, friends and passion tell Ina’s life in its simplest sense.
Services at Temple Beth Shalom, 670 Highland Ave., on Wednesday, July 18, 2018 at 10 am. Interment at Congregation Shirat Hayam Cemetery of the North Shore, Temple Beth El Section, 506 Lowell St., Peabody, MA.
Memorial observance will be at the home of Debra and Elwyn Fields, Wednesday 3-8 pm and Thursday 2-4 & 7-9 pm.
In lieu of flowers, remembrances may be made to Temple Beth Shalom, or Airline Ambassadors International,www.airlineamb.org.
An empty seat by the aisle.
The confused look in the light-blue eyes of a young woman.
Imaginary clothes drawn with a red marking pen on the frail body of a three-year-old.
The slight shiver of the teenage girl in the boarding line at the gate.
Cupped hands upraised to the sky.
A bruise on a cheek.
They all tell a story.
A tale of anguish and pain, endurance & hope and every one of us can play a part.
All these stories are a cry for help, coming from people experiencing intolerable levels of hardship all over the world. Some of them are victims of starvation, war, and natural disasters. Others, of sex trafficking. We can lend them a helping hand unconditionally. We can help at least one of the millions of children who are hungry, cold, and have no access to clean water or education. We can learn about the indicators of human trafficking, recognize, and report them. We can match our unique interests and skills to human need. We can make a difference when we travel.
That’s what Nancy Rivard has been doing since 1986 when she founded the Airline Ambassadors. After her father suddenly passed away on Christmas Eve, she found out at only twenty-nine, that loving one another and being of service is what ultimately makes life worth living. It became the young flight attendant’s life purpose — and made her unstoppable.
Her contagious enthusiasm, courage, and dedication to making a positive impact in the world eventually won over other flight attendants, airport employees, some of the big players in the airline industry, the U.N., and people like you. For them, Nancy Rivard is more than the founder of a successful non-profit organization dedicated to providing assistance to children worldwide and putting a stop to human trafficking. She is a trailblazer for the extraordinary impact ordinary people can 
make in the world by talking less, doing more and bringing love into action.
“Wings of Love” is the next chapter to be written in the Airline Ambassadors history. This memoir based on Nancy Rivard’s odyssey of self-discovery is meant to inspire and empower people from around the world. Men and women, young and older people alike can take a step forward towards their soul, find their life purpose and fulfill it — by being of service. Nancy opens up her heart and reveals the good and bad, the happy moments and heartbreaking challenges, the unexpected traps, and powerful lessons. At a time where the mass media portrays the world as a place of hatred and separation, “Wings of Love” makes a case for kindness, compassion, and generosity as inherent features of the human soul. How? By our inter-connectedness and power to change the world through caring for one another.
Yet, “Wings of Love” is more than just a life-changing book that will inspire you to embark on a profound search for meaning and ask yourself the essential question, “How can I serve?” The book’s earnings will give wings to more humanitarian missions and help the organization reach new territories with airline industry-specific training programs on human trafficking awareness.
For all this to happen, for us to release the book in 2018 and make a bigger and better positive impact in the world, we need your support. We need to raise funds to make “Wings of Love” an outstanding, high-quality book available in digital, print and audio formats, translate it in several languages and implement a global promotion campaign so that we build a tidal wave of goodwill on this planet.
Any contribution, even the smallest one, can help. We can do this together. Thank you for joining us in bringing love into action and “Wings of Love” on the bookshelves. THANK YOU!
This campaign was generously funded by Ronda Coallier
Donate today and be a part of the collective voice determined to end human trafficking and bring safety to children around the world.
Wings of Love Book Description
What is the path to happiness, true love, and fulfillment? For Nancy Rivard, the founder of the internationally acclaimed non-profit organization Airline Ambassadors and the 2017 recipient of Perdita Huston Human Rights Award, it was finding her life purpose. Falling in love with humanity and being of extraordinary service. The twenty-nine-year-old California native had already given up a soaring corporate career as VP of American Airlines to become a flight attendant and travel around the globe when a heart-wrenching event started her on a seven-year search for spiritual meaning.
Nancy had miraculous meetings with the great spiritual teachers Sathya Sai Baba and Babaji Francesco Atmananda as well as magical experiences such as a UFO encounter and her first visit to Medjugorje. She’d worked with some of the world’s brightest minds. These experiences eventually revealed the answer to her burning question. She found out that women were not victims, but powerful beings with a sacred mission to restore peace and harmony on our planet. She realized that her life purpose was to meet real need and bring love into action.
Armed with faith, passion, and courage, against all the odds and all alone, she endeavored to make a difference and influence the travel industry, the largest one in the world and help millions of people around the world. It was by following her heart and staying faithful to her calling that Nancy also found true love and her soul partner.
In this riveting memoir, Nancy Rivard takes you on a fantastic love adventure that spans several decades and continents, from the war-engulfed Bosnia of the 90s to the earthquake-devastated Haiti of the year 2010, passing through hurricane-stricken New Orleans and impoverished El Salvador. She portrays loneliness, sacrifice, betrayal, temptation, danger, and loss as opportunities that made her grow as a human being — from an idealistic (but lost) young woman into the global role model she is today. Nancy also shares one of the most beautiful love stories of the modern times, how it blossomed when she least expected it, and how it endured the test of time, hardships, and separation.
Nancy Rivard’s journey is your journey. It represents the essential cycle each of us must go through as we move towards self-actualization, expressing our authentic self, and remembering we are love. It will inspire you to follow the promptings of your heart, and ultimately ask yourself the essential question –
“How can I serve?”
Below is a podcast interview with Nancy Rivard on the Wings of Love story
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Something as simple as buying a bracelet can help a disabled person in Nepal.
Alongside the jewels and fossils of the island store is a shelf of handmade bracelets, and the profits from those bracelets fund the fledgling program Diapers for Dignity which creates and distributes reusable diaper kits to Nepal’s disabled population.
“Nepal became a place for me in 1979 when I was selected for the Dooley Foundation Stewardess volunteer program,” said Orcas islander Kate Jewell, who has a doctorate in naturopathy, director of AirIntermed Nepal and creator of Diapers for Dignity. “I remember frantically scanning the entire map of Africa, looking for this soon-to-be home where I would be living and working for three months. Then, thankfully, someone told me Nepal was in Asia.”
At the time Jewell was working with an immunization team based out of a town called Gorkha. There was no running water, no bathrooms or electricity in the house in which she stayed.
“Working with the people, trekking this beautiful land with incredible vistas of multigreen rice paddies ringed by the snow-capped Himalayas was physically draining and magical,” Jewell said. “I fell in love with Nepal and her people.”
Jewell returned to Nepal throughout the 1980s. It gradually became a distant memory, she said. That was until the earthquake of 2015.
“I knew I had to do something,” Jewell said. “Long story short, I revamped the volunteer program (Air Intermed) with the help of Dooley/Intermed International, Airline Ambassadors International and Mission Himalaya.”
Air Intermed offers participants the opportunity to work at the EcoHome for Children in Nepal. Airline Ambassadors International trains airline personnel how to spot human trafficking. The result of the partnership between the two is an organization that focuses on teaching orphans and Nepali children how to recognize potentially dangerous situations.
$10 for a set of three
Through friends Jewell was introduced to a man named Devendra Amgain who owns a company called Craft to Care which employs 400 women saved from human trafficking.
“He teaches them how to make beautiful, beaded bracelets and (the women) create the intricate designs,” Jewell said. “The bracelets are crafted by stringing many, many beads (and counting the pattern) on a single thread, then taking the tiniest crochet hook imaginable and creating the tube that becomes the bracelet.”
The bracelets have a single red bead woven into it to signify the impact of human trafficking and to represent the survivor herself. The bracelets fit almost everyone and are worn by gently rolling them onto your wrist. Each bracelet allows the artisan to earn a living while being able to remain in her home, care for her family and rebuild her life. To buy a bracelet make a donation HERE and email angels@airlineamb.org Buyer will pay for shipping costs.
“(Diapers for Dignity) is currently a work in progress and will also help create a caregiving program to help the families,” said Jewell. “It will be headed by one of my Nepali friends I first worked with in 1979.”
For more information on the AirIntermed program and to volunteer, visit dooleyintermed.org and airlineamb.org. For more information about Diapers for Dignity, email Jewell at drkatejewell@yahoo.com.
Picture on right is Monique Best, American Eagle flight attendant escorting 5 year old Aydin home to GUA from EWR after facial reconstruction surgery.
Brilliant New Video on Air Asia Airlines human trafficking awareness program! Airline Ambassadors gives them a #1 rating as the most committed airline in combating human slavery!
It was so exciting to help kick off the Air Asia Roadshow in August 2017 to the main four bases for Air Asia Airlines –
Kuala Lumpur – Manila – Jakarta and Bangkok
Air Asia also did an In Flight Magazine Article on our visit!
Bravo to Donna Hubbard who has overcome inner and outer hurdles to become an inspiration to all and a key voice increasing awareness of human trafficking!
Sept. 2018 Philadelphia Airport Training
Sept. 2018 Interview for Al Hurra TV
Sept. Donna was featured at the Asia Pacific Aviation Safety Seminar
Aug. 2018 Atlanta Airport web-page highlights Donna in a Survivor’s Story
Aug. 2018 Icelandic Air Train the Trainer in Reykjavik
Jul. 2018 Donna was keynote at AA’s Flight Service Regional Summit
May 2018 She keynoted in Geneva at the release of ICAO’s Circular 352
May 2018 She represented AA at the IATA Bankok Conference on Cabin Safety
April 2018 She was honored as a Mother of Achievement by American Mothers
May 2018 piece by Voice of America at our training in Charlotte
Jan 2018 Pre SuperBowl Minneapolis Airport Training
Nov. 2017 – Here is Donna in Dubai with Air Emirates
Sept 2017 In Flight Magazine story – Air Asia Airlines
Aug. 2017 Here is a piece from our interview with Air Asia
Apr. 2017 – Awarded at Women of the World
May 2017 Atlanta Airport Training
Apr. 2016 – Received a standing ovation at the United Nations in 2016
