In this issue
- Call To Action
- Special Events
- Featured Trip
- Bravo's
- Thank yous!
- Media
- Children's Escort News
- Campaigns
- Missions
- eUpdate Archive
Media
TravelPro Announces
Partnership
with
Airline Ambassadors
International as
Their
Global Charity!
The April
Press Release...
Once again, Airline
Ambassadors
will
be featured on Direct TV,
May
17, "Hometown Heroes",
hosted by Joan
Lunden. For
more...
Children's
Escort
Volunteers
Margaret Whitehead,
Director of the
Children's Escort
Program,
shares Escort
Stories!
What
does it mean?
Becoming
an escort?
Read
Escort
Reflections:
Reported by Terry
Bobbitt,
American Airlines'
Flight Attendant.
Campaigns
The
March Mexico Mission was an
incredible success!
AAI
Coordinator, Becky Gahman,
files her
story. If you can help
support the projects,
please visit
our
Donate
to a Project page to
help
continue the missions and
deliver on-going aid.
Thank you!
* All donations are
tax
deductible.
Missions
Whether it's
Guatemala
South Africa , or
Tanzania...
there's a trip for
you!
Watch our
2009
Travel Calendar
for
postings that
fit
your schedule,
skills, and
passions!
Did you miss
any
eUpdates?
Visit the Airline
Ambassadors'
eUpdate
Archive for past issues!
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Call To Action
Our Campaigns Continue...
We are
all part of one
global
family...and a little
can
go a long, long
way.
Visit our
Donate
to a Project
section
to support
children
in Argentina,
Haiti,
Mexico,
South
Africa , Cameroon
and
more.
Thank you for your
support!
Special Events
Thanks
to 60 AAI members who participated at the MDG
Awards at the
United
Nations, and the IDB Conference in Medellin. We had an
opportunity
to network with global leaders on the forefront of building a
better
world. Now, join our team at the upcoming:
CARE
National Conference
and
Celebration
May 5 & 6,
2009
Washington, D.C.
Demand a world
without poverty.
This
two day event is a unique opportunity to help keep
American
policymakers
focused on issues of poverty, women's empowerment,
social
equity and justice. Please read Shannon
DeWitt's report about
last
year's conference and consider joining us.
Register here...
Following
registration, please contact AAI Coordinator, Shannon DeWitt
at believesucceed@hotmail.com.
For more details about this year's event, visit CARE's
site and review the Summary
and Highights for 2009.
Featured Trip
Thailand, Cambodia
Peter Greenberg, Travel
Editor, Today, is joining our special trip in June.
Airline Ambassadors'
First Trip with Virtuosso Exotissmo Travel.
Deanna Frieze won
this trip at the
2008
Compassion Ball. She will
visit
Airline Ambassador projects
in
Cambodia and Thailand. Join us
and
see the ancient temple of
Angor
Wat, and enjoy a First Class
visit
during which you will
also support
orphans, artisans
and elephants!
In Cambodia the team
is visiting
our
Adopted Project,
Flow
Orphanage and Cambodia
Children's Fund.
In
Thailand, the itinerary will
include visiting the
Duang
Prateep Foundation
and E.L.E.
Elephant Conservation
Camp.
AAI members, Liz Allen
and
Mark
Fangue, of Exotic World
Gifts, discovered the
E.L.E. camp
and
are now avid about South
Asian
elephant conservation.
Don't
miss Liz and Mark's
amazing, famous Elephant
Painting
video, too. It wil be
featured on National
Geographic, Animal
Planet....and
more!
Email mailto:missionsadmin@airlineamb.orgfor
more info about how to join
this exclusive
trip!
Bravo to:
The Shelly
Family
 Peggy
Shelly and her daughters,
Kasey
(18) and Stephanie (15),
collected
funds at their high
school,
Ursuline Academy and
took
a Spring Break trip
to
Guatemala.
They
chose to use the money to
send
some Guatemalan children
to
school through the Mayan
Families
organization.
Enjoy their
Story
From The Field and catch up on other stories,
too!
Bravo to the Shelly Family!!
Thank yous!
News
from El Salvador and Iraq
American Airlines
delivers again!
Patty
McPeak, Chairman of the Board of AAI and
Founder
of The RicePatty
Foundation, donates food to
provide nutrition and
relief.
Thank
you to American for transporting 3,000 lbs
of
Patty McPeak's
donation
of "Manna" to
El
Salvador's
Benjamin Bloom Hospital
Burn
Center,
to
nourish the kids.
 And...there's
more... American sent an
aircraft
to Iraq, full of aid for
distribution
to those in need in the
Middle
East!
For
more, read about "the first U.S.
commercial airline to
take a cargo flight
into Iraq."
Haiti, El Salvador, Iraq....
Thank you to all!
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