In this issue

• Call To Action
• Haiti Status and Strategy
• Featured Trip
• Happenings
• Partnerships
• Thank you!
• Bravos!
• Donation Appreciation
• Social Media
• Children's Escort News
• News
• Volunteer Programs
• Missions
• eUpdate Archive

Social Media

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Children's

Escort Volunteers

Haiti

Following the earthquake:
Thank you to Airline Ambassador Escorts for raising $5000 and escorting 61 orphans from Haiti to their new families who were awaiting their arrival before the earthquake struck.

Read the story...

Margaret Whitehead, Director of the program shares more Escort Stories!

News

2010 began with disaster. 

To review the news and keep up with the latest developments, visit our Haiti Updates pages.

Volunteer Programs

It's a lifestyle...

Fair Trade, local artisans?  Thank you for

Shopping for Humanity!

Now, more than ever...

Donate miles to support Airline Ambassadors Projects.  Visit United Charity Miles today!

For more ways that you can help, please visit

Volunteer Programs.

Missions

Whether it's Haiti, Chile, Nicaragua, Ethiopia, or

South Africa...

there's a trip for you!  

Find your niche

and feed your passion...

Brawn (build schools, plant gardens, deliver critical aid), Brains (teach, educate, develop learning programs), or Big Heart (orphanage visits)! 

Watch our

2010 Calendar

for postings that fit your

schedule, skills, and

passion!

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Call To Action

Trips, trips, trips!  Your mission awaits. 

Help needed from Haiti and Chile to Ethiopia and South Africa.

Join our monthly missions to Haiti and Chile and support orphanages, schools, and clinics in the wake of the disasters.  You can also see how your donations improve the lives of children and families in Mexico, Nicaragua, Cambodia, South Africa, and MORE. 

Check out the AAI Travel Calendar to participate.  Remember to renew your membership if you are interested in volunteering "in country".  If you would like to help, but are unable to take the time off, choose a project of your choice and make a donation to make a difference.  Your donation is 100% tax deductible.

Haiti Status and Strategy -- On-Going Disaster Relief

Medical Mission Volunteers

Airline Ambassador’s work in Haiti is taking shape as we strive to provide a sustainable program for many years to come.

We are focused on assisting the Government of Haiti, UNICEF and other partners in the fight against human trafficking with a specific focus on supporting efforts to safeguard children who may fall victim to trafficking.  As the earthquake has created hundreds of new and extremely vulnerable orphans, we have partnered with UNICEF to build two houses in Belladere, a border town at the frontier with the Dominican Republic.  These houses, donated by Procuserve, will be used as safe houses to address the increased risk of human trafficking along the border. AAI will also work with the Social Welfare Department in Haiti, UNICEF and other partners to provide training to airline employees to help them recognize the signs of potential human trafficking.  Future plans also include working with partners to provide volunteer trainers to increase the capacity of local partners to address anti-child trafficking initiatives and improvement of care for separated and vulnerable children.

We are also formalizing our focus on preparing Haitians to engage in the productive sector.  In collaboration with a group of AAI local volunteers and LDS Charities, we have established the Airline Ambassadors English Language Training School in Port au Prince.  AAI is providing stipends to four Haitian English teachers working in donated classrooms to offer free classes to learn English.  Many of our students lost their jobs as a result of the earthquake and know that learning English will provide them with an increased chance of future employment as there are now hundreds of potential employers in the form of new NGOs present in the country for long-term development work.  AAI plans to expand its English as a Second Language training activities to orphans and other vulnerable children who are close to transitioning out of care institutions.  We believe that by engaging our volunteers with specific orphans and vulnerable children we will be able to provide these children with English Language skills that are critical to them obtaining employment in the tourism and other sectors in Haiti.

As always, our missions will continue. We invite medical personnel of all backgrounds to participate on 10-day medical missions to serve remote communities in Haiti out of field clinics set up by the New Horizons project of the United States' Southern Command.   A donation of $800 pp is being requested that will go toward AAI projects in Haiti.  All food, lodging and transportation WITHIN Haiti will be covered.  Trips leave on:

Contact Dave Rivard for details: davidarivard@gmail.com.

Featured Trip

Ethiopia

Join Airline Ambassadors International for the mission experience of a lifetime.

AAI will be traveling to the most remote locations in Ethiopia to promote literacy and education.  Mission participants will be spending time at adopted libraries, schools and community centers while being immersed in the nation's history and culture.  Don't miss this opportunity to experience unforgettable Ethiopia!

Space is limited.  Register today.
For more information, please contact our coordinator, Corey Aungst.  For more trip opportunities, frequently visit our Travel Calendar.

Happenings

WNEP travels to Haiti with Airline Ambassadors to ensure current news is delivered

Jon Meyer reports, "Four months after the earthquake ravaged Haiti, that country is in the headlines and on the news less and less.   Newswatch 16 found out first hand that there is still so much damage and so much need."

In April, WNEP joined Airline Ambassadors, in Haiti.  The TV crew shadowed AAI Mission Coordinator, Corey Aungst and AAI volunteers as they visited orphanages, delivered care and aid to victims of the quake, and installed a fresh water filtration system that they purchased with donations to Aungst's AAI project.

WNEP aired the documentary "From Here to Haiti" on Thursday, May 13 at 7:30pm in Pennsylvania.   Watch our web site for postings of the WNEP series and special.

For more, visit WNEP's From Here to Haiti - Trip Overview. 

Partnerships

Airline Ambassadors announces partnership with Ambassadors for Humanity

During a needs assessment for an Airline Ambassador’s Mexico orphanage project three years ago, Peggy Sprague, founder of Ambassadors for Humanity and Nancy Rivard, founder and president of

Airline Ambassadors met.  Sharing common philosophies and goals, the

women created an alliance and are proud to present a Shopping for

Humanity opportunity for our members. 

The HEART of Giving Collection is a unique  opportunity to purchase art and gift

packages while helping children and families in need.    Please visit our

Shopping for Humanity section for details.

Mrs. AnaLigiaMixco de Saca, Former First Lady of El Salvador

In June, 30 children from El Salvador will travel to the US and around the world to receive life saving heart surgeries.  AAI is honored to be part of this Gift of Life Rotary program.  June 14, at a ceremony in San Salvador, each child will be honored and presented with a backpack for their special journey.  Most of the group will leave the following day on a trip that will change their lives forever.

Many thanks to American Airlines Miles for Kids in Need, TACA Airlines, Brenda Small of Music for Heart Foundation and Lisselot de Mixco of Gente Ayuda Gente for their support of this heartfelt project!

Daniel Sheth, Airline Ambassadors' Board Member

Jackie's House, Dominican Republic

Daniel is one of AAI’s most generous supporters.  He is currently supporting the construction of a children’s home called Jackie’s House on two acres of land in a rural area called El Cercadillo, just outside Santo Domingo in the Dominican Republic.  The house being planned would be large enough to care for a multitude of children, many of them with disabilities.  

To learn more about Jackie's House, please visit our

Donate to a Project section on the AAI web site.

Bravo to Daniel Sheth, Airline Ambassadors' Board member and tireless, generous supporter!

Donation Appreciation

Dr. Daniel Susott, AAI Medical Director

Once again our medical director Dr. Daniel Susott finds himself in the thick of things. Here he helps carry donated rice in a tent city of some 30,000 internally displaced Haitians.

Daniel has been a longtime supporter of Airline Ambassadors, not only with his money and medical expertise, but also with his knowledge of disaster mitigation. He was in Sri Lanka the day after the disastrous tsunami in 2004, and in Burma as a member of the first foreign medical team (the Aloha Medical Mission) in conjunction with Airline Ambassadors after Cyclone Nargis tore through southern Burma in 2007 killing 200,000 people.  In his own words, Dr. Daniel Susott reports from the field.  Read more from Dr. Susott in the

AAI Blog...

Our Sincerest Gratitude to Dr. Daniel Susott.