In this issue
- Call To Action
- Special Event
- Happenings
- Featured Trip
- Bravo's
- Children's Escort News
- Thank yous!
- Holiday Feature
- Campaigns
Thank yous!
In the seasonal
spirit of goodwill,
Wings Financial is
supporting the
charitable efforts of
Airline Ambassadors
through a
unique partnership.
For
each new member joining
Wings Financial
between
December 1 - 31, 2008,
Wings
Financial will donate
$5 to
Airline Ambassadors
.
For
details, please visit
Partnership
News.
Holiday Feature
Shopping for Humanity
 Shopping
for Humanity is here!
You
can support humanitarian
efforts and find
unique, beautiful
gifts, too!
If you haven't
visited our
ever-growing online
gift shop
community, you're
missing a one-
stop
gift shop holiday experience.
Treasures, gift ideas,
and
inspiration from places
near and
far!
Gifts to suit every
taste and
every budget. If
you enter
the
Airline Ambassadors' code,
you
are donating to AAI projects,
too!
Campaigns...
To help support
Airline
Ambassadors
projects around the
world,
please visit our
Donate
to a Project Page.
Thank
you!
* All donations are tax
deductible.
Whether it's New
Orleans,
Viet
Nam, or El Salvador...
there's a trip for
you!
Watch our
2009 Travel Calendar
for
postings that
fit
your schedule,
skills, and
passions!
Pass it
on
If you
know someone who
may
be interested in
receiving
this newsletter,
please
send the
eUpdate to
a
friend!
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Call To Action
Haiti
Update:
In
December, AAI is funding the transport of 19,000 lbs
of
humanitarian aid which
is currently en route on a commercial
shipping line to Haiti.
Photo provided by
Marie
Durquet,
exhibit
at
French
Alliance
San Francisco, CA
Additionally,
AAI's Denver Regional Director, William Dise, secured an aircraft
which will deliver much-needed help to several NGO's on the ground
in Haiti. Through generous donations from LDS Charities, AAI
will be sending food, first aid kits, hygiene kits, school kits and
newborn kits on the American Airlines flight. Thank you to our
members for supporting these efforts in our campaigns!
Future plans for
February Haiti relief efforts include AAI's initiation of a
feeding program for
more than 50 HIV children living in an orphanage in
Port-au-Prince. Nanacea
Resoluable Nutritional food will supply the nutrient-rich
food. Eric Klein and a group from Can-Do
Organization will be joining the AAI team to do a needs assessment
on the ground and to provide a live stream to document the state of
affairs in Haiti."
If
you can help us continue our Haiti efforts, please visit our
Donations
Page, select the Donate Button and indicate,
"Haiti Relief Effort".
Haiti Special Event
and Fund Raiser
AAI
is hosting a fund raiser in San Francisco, December 9, to
help
support Haiti Missions.
If you live in the San Francisco/Bay Area,
drop
by Bush Street in San Francisco
from 7:00-9:00 PM. For
details,
please read the
Haiti
Fundraiser Flyer. Peter Greenberg,
Travel
Editor of the
Today Show, will be joining us.
Happenings
AAI
Marches on with the St. Bernard Project...
Join us, there's more
work to be done!
 Kirsten
Perkins, Airline
Ambassadors' New
Orleans
Mission Coordinator has
stories to tell about
her August
and
October missions! She
begins by sharing a bit
about
the
August adventure,
"Our
intention on this trip was
to
work on the 24 hour build to
commemorate the 3rd
anniversary of when the
hurricane hit....
 "Unfortunately,
upon arrival I
received a call telling
us not to
come
as Hurricane Gustav
was
on the way and they were
concerned with evacuating
everyone. We
decided to stay,
spending one day working on a
house and the rest of
the week
assisting residents
to prepare for
the
hurricane....
We
evacuated ourselves on Sat....Gustav hit on Monday."
Read
the full
story on our site and consider joining
Kirsten's 2009 February
trip. Visit our Travel
Calendar and Brochure.
Featured Trip
Christmas in El
Salvador!
Join
the President and the
First Lady of El
Salvador at this
festive holiday
celebration for
50,000 children and
hand-
deliver gifts to kids
in the
picturesque village of
Ilobasco.
Bring your family
and loved
ones
for an unforgettable mission and experience the true meaning of
love
and the Holiday Season. Please visit the El
Salvador Brochure to
review your itinerary.
For
more information, please contact Alexandra Bonvalot at:
mailto:alexandrabonvalot@airlineamb.org%20
Bravo to:
Deborah Quigley, Hawaii Regional Director for
Airline Ambassadors
 Deborah
reports that her
foster son, in
Cambodia, is
doing well in school
and his
friends in the FLOW
program
are
fulfilling their dreams of
attending college or
vocational
schools. Deborah
supports
her
foster son so that he can
attend the university
there.
You can read Deborah's and Sophanna's letters in
our News
Section.
Bravo,
Deborah!
Children's
Escort Volunteers
Dance
Your Way into a Child's Heart...
Learn About Becoming
an Escort!
Don't forget to
check out
Escort
Stories!
Margaret Whitehead,
Director of the
Children's Escort
Program, reports
19
children escorted in
November!
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