In this issue

  • Call to Action
  • Happenings
  • Social Media News
  • Haiti News
  • Events
  • Featured Trip
  • Thank you
  • Bravos!
  • Social Media
  • News
  • Volunteer Programs
  • eUpdate Archive

 

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Volunteer Programs

It's a lifestyle...

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(AA) and Airline

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for Good Program and

collected a record-breaking $1.4 Million in 2010.

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Call to Action

Reach Within to Embrace Humanity

I invite you to join me as a founding member of Airline Ambassadors Rotary E-Club, which will take your AAI membership to a whole new level! Rotary's philosophy is "service above self" and this alliance will give us global infrastructure and support.


You will not have to go to meetings every week, but simply check in on our AAI Club's Rotary website page two times a month!   This will give us a chance to interact with each other and you can post projects that are most important to you. As a member of our Club, you will be welcome at Rotary Club meetings anywhere in the world. We can present our projects and request other Clubs to support us and become eligible for matching funds from Rotary International, leveraging our fund raising efforts. I would be honored to have you part of our team.

Enroll securely on our site or send an email confirmation and a check for $150 to our office (address below) with Rotary Club in the memo line.  Thanks so much and I look forward to working with you on this exciting new venture!

Nancy Rivard

Founder/President

Airline Ambassadors International
1020 16th St NW - Suite 603
Washington, DC 20036

Toll Free: (866) ANGEL-86

 

Happenings

Airline Ambassadors leads the charge for Child Protection with new training on Human Trafficking

Airline Ambassadors is leading an effort to raise awareness in the airline industry to stem the tide of Human Trafficking - a $30 Billion industry.  We have developed a training specifically targeted for airline, airport, and hotel personnel and are looking for funding to provide the training at airports throughout the United States and the world.  The training was announced at a press conference with Governor McDonnell at Dulles Airport and at a Congressional Briefing, chaired by Congressman Chris Smith, on June 13.  If you would like to help, you may donate to the Airline Ambassadors Human Trafficking Initiative here.

 

Social Media News

TexTango - You can get paid for texting

You can help Airline Ambassadors raise money for Human Trafficking Training and you can get paid for texting.   AAI members are encouraged to "TexTango".  Download the FREE TexTango application on your phone, start using TexTango for sending text messages, and get paid to text.  Make sure you enter the AAI referral code when registering at https://www.textango.com/member/signup. 

Every text you send is sponsored by socially responsible companies and brands that support AAI's efforts and you can make money!  The money earned is paid out on a debit card on a monthly basis. You can elect to keep the money earned, or you can donate all or a portion of the money earned back to AAI.  Simply text TEXTANGO to 55678 to receive more information. The more members and friends AAI members refer, the more money we can raise for Human Trafficking Training.  Support AAI and make some extra cash!

 

Haiti News

Haiti Update


Your support has empowered Airline Ambassadors to complete Safe Houses for vulnerable and exploited children in Miraguan, Port au Prince and Mirebelais (finished this week) and none too soon. Team members met a young trafficked boy in Haiti last week who was so severely abused, he did not know his own name; and we saw three young victims thrown in a dark, mosquito infested jail, with nothing but one blanket on the filthy cement floor - simply because there was no where else to put them. The Bureau for the Protection of Minors has picked up 13,000 cases of trafficked children in Haiti this year alone.  We are building safe houses to protect these children and get them the care they need.  Construction volunteers needed.  Email davidarivard@gmail.com if you would like to help.  We also need teams to bring supplies to Zamni Beni or All God's Children orphanages for abandoned or exploited children.  It will be a journey you will not forget.

 

Events

200 Children from Latvia and the Ukraine!

Margaret Whitehead, Merrily Dickenson and Connie Faberman have worked feverishly to coordinate one of the most complicated escorts AAI has ever attempted.  At the end of June, over 22 AAI escorts will help transport 200 orphans from Latvia and the Ukraine to the US for a month.  The young teenagers are coming to the US to stay with foster families all around the country for summer vacation.  The hope is that some of the kids will be adopted.  Many thanks to the generous volunteers who make this possible!

Read more Escort Stories from Margaret Whitehead, Director of the AAI Children's Escort Program.

 

Featured Trip

Mission To Haiti, August 10 - 13, 2011

Join Ruth Matranga on an unforgettable journey to help abandoned orphans, women, and children in Haiti.  Learn about the human trafficking problem and restavek population.  Click HERE for more details.

 


Thank You

Thank you to Hawaiian Airlines and Fed Ex for help with Japan

 

 

 

Thanks to all who helped AAI donate hundreds of pounds of aid to Japan following the catastrophic earthquake and tsunami.  Federal Express provided transport of aid from Alabama to Los Angeles and Hawaiian Airlines provided airfare to support our relief efforts.  Corey Aungst and Kate Jewell led teams to deliver critical supplies and set up a system for flight attendants to deliver aid in Narita.  Additionally, our tremendous thanks to Tracy Thompson who coordinated the delivery
of over 100 boxes of "omyagi" with Hawaiian Airlines crew members.  Your efforts helped countless numbers of people impacted by the horrific tragedies. Thank you to all!


 

Bravo to

AAI Regional Director for Hawaii, Deb Quigley, for her support with the Human Trafficking Training

Deb Quigley, our Honolulu Regional Director, and retired United Airlines Customer Service agent, identified little Somnang in Cambodia in 2009.  Because of her action, Somnang is now in a safe house in Siem Riep with a new mother and 8 brothers and sisters (who were also vulnerable and abandoned).  This launched our involvement in the issue of child trafficking and BRAVO for Deb's initiative in spending countless hours writing the first draft of our training for Airline Personnel.