Call To Action
Haiti - more
help needed as situation deteriorates!
Needed:
Water filters, medical supplies, and
food!
 Latest
news:
Reported
by an Airline Ambassadors' Haiti Mission Coordinator:
"my correspondent in Haiti...
informed me that the situation is worsening there, especially in
Gonaives , where people are dying due to lack of food and water.
Some are still on the rooftops, unable to enter their houses, where
everything has been lost."
AAI
established the Haiti Fund and we continue to collect donations!
Please
visit our site,
select the Donate Button, and indicate:
"Haiti
Relief Effort" in the memo section.
Thank you
for your continued support!
 Tremendous thanks to MAP
International for providing
medicine and supplies valued at $109,000.00!
And...thank
you to our donors and members who are sending supplies to NY for
shipment. There is no deadline for accepting supplies or
donations. Visit our eCampaign
for shipping details.
Don't
forget to check our web site for upcoming missions that will be
accepting volunteers. And...stay tuned for updates,
mission reports, and postings about the relief that you have made
possible!
Thank you
for your support and continued generosity to our friends in Haiti!
Happenings
 Airline
Ambassadors, LDS Charities and Military Join Forces to Bring Aid to
Colombia
On September 24, 2008,
30,000 lbs of hospital supplies (valued over $1M) will arrive in
San Juan del Guaviare thanks to the combined efforts of the
Colombian Army and the Colombian National Police.
 AAI
put together this unique collaborative effort with the Church of
Latter Day Saints (LDS) Charities in Colombia after a call for help
from the US Civil Affairs personnel stationed in So. Colombia in
April. LDS Charities in Salt Lake City, UT generously
provided over 40,000 lbs of medical aid for this hospital.
Over 50,000 lbs still awaits shipment from
Homestead Airbase in Miami to Colombia. Please read the Press
Release.
Featured Trip
Mexico
Trips! 
Tepoztlan.
Distributing school supplies, interacting with local
children at their new school http://www.ixayaschool.com/,
visiting the Ashram orphanage of Tashirat http://www.tashiratkids.org/.
AND touring a magical town full of mysticism and
tradition.
How
do you feel about mixing the rewards of humanitarian work,
with hiking along
cobblestone streets, and visiting a 16th-century
fortress-convent?
 During
your stay, you can visit Cuernavaca, known for its colonial
architecture, you can enjoy the therapeutic waters at the swimming
resort Agua Hedionda, or you may wrap yourself in the culture, and
try delicious regional dishes. If
this isn't enough... Tashirat offers Yoga retreats for those who
might be interested!
Tempted? This may be the Volunteer
Vacation for you!
Please
contact, our USA coordinator:
Kathy
Crider at; kcrider66@hotmail.com
Bravo to:
Trinh
Bui-Kokkoris! Trinh leads Viet Nam mission and sets up
the Viet
Nam Disabled Children's Fund.
Trinh will be
leading a very special Airline Ambassadors' sponsored "Compassion Tour of Viet Nam" in March 2009.
During
this trip, participants will visit physical rehabilitation centers,
peace villages and families with disabled children (most affected
by Agent Orange/dioxin, a defoliant used during the Viet Nam War)
as well as extraordinary places in Hanoi (Ha Long Bay), Hoi An
(ChinaBeach), Hue City and Ho Chi Minh City. Trinh
explains that volunteers will even "rejuvenate" during the trip with
yoga classes!
AAI has set up the
Viet Nam Disabled Children’s Fund. Proceeds will go to selected
Agent Orange programs that participants will visit during the trip.
Please visit her Travel
Calendar posting for details about the trip and how to donate to
the VNDF fund.
For more information,
contact Ms. Trinh
Bui-Kokkoris at
mailto:tbk.airlineamb@gmail.com
Bravo,
Trinh!
Children's Escort
Volunteers
 Terri Bobbitt, American Airlines Flight Attendant,
escorts Natalia:
"My
day with Natalia during her journey home to her family in Santo
Domingo was
such
a precious gift from God. He gave me a wonderful glimpse of a
sweet and brave
little girl...His
little girl...full of love and laughter for herself, her family in
St. Louis,
and
the family she so eagerly couldn't wait to be reunited
with....."
Please enjoy Terri's
story...
Don't
forget to check out other Escort
Stories!
Margaret Whitehead,
Director of the Children's Escort Program,
reports 18 children
escorted in August!
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