Bolivia - an AAI Wedding! 

Congratulations to Susan (from the US) and William (from Bolivia) who met on an AAI mission one year ago and married this January in La Paz!  The AAI mission team was there to join the beautiful ceremony and to wish them well, before embarking on a special trip to deliver gifts to the Eric Boulter Home for the Hearing Impaired, a School for the Blind (thanks so much to new classrooms funded through the generosity of Bob Millonig!) and the support the Adult Education Center. TV Channel 4 and Channel 33 also featured the AAI team delivering wheelchairs and seed capital to seven women to start their own businesses. A powerful journey to deliver aid to remote villages made the whole team reflect on the basic comforts and conveniences that we take for granted and feel inspired by their ability to make a difference.     

 

Thank to AAI coordinator Maria Harrison and Dr. Beatriz Engels who coordinated for a medical team of 60 to visit Ecuador and provide cleft pallet surgeries for two weeks and assessments for hundreds of children.  Children were provided medical care, but also given gifts of toys, shoes and most of all love and caring by the team. Many thanks to American Airlines for the transport of thousands of pounds of medical supplies which made this mission of mercy a real success. 

 

Bravo to our team delivering aid and medicine to the mountain village of Juampas in Haiti, where Airline Ambassadors began the first medical clinic in the area.  Despite the social unrest a mission team traveled to deliver food, hygiene and school supplies to support hundreds of children and families in the most impoverished country in the western hemisphere. 

 

AAI mission teams visited in January and February to seven of AAI's adopted projects in El Salvador...the  January team was joined by NBC visiting three orphanages and Kiwanis Village....AAI's housing project and school  Besides delivering hygiene, school, newborn kits, shoes, soccer balls and gifts, the team met the entire wish list at CIPI orphanage, provided a soccer tournament at Hogar Magana and initiated vocational training program at Kiwanis Village.  A second team traveled to rural villages in February, delivering aid and love to the poorest of the poor in both rural and urban areas .

 

Airline Ambassadors partnered with Oakand Firefighters Random Acts and Hope Clinic International to provide medical care for children and families in the remote villages of Jinotega and Estili. This trip, staffed by firefighters, Emergency Medical technicians and paramedics plan to deliver medicine and supplies and work in rural villages where much of the population has no access to medical care.   AAI hopes to work with Oakland Firefighters Random Acts, and firefighters across the nation to link them to humanitarian missions around the globe in the future.