AJ Meissgeier stands in front of an all-too-familar scene in Port-au-Prince.
(Photo provided by AJ Meissgeier)
RICHMOND, Va., March 1 (UPI) -- After working through the night, A.J. Meissgeier found her in the courtyard around 10 a.m.
She had been fortunate to survive being impaled by corrugated tin. In the mountains where she lived, emergency gastrointestinal surgery saved her life by removing more than a foot of large intestine and part of her stomach.
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"It all began in Cambodia. Three AAI people were walking down the dirt road of a small village near Siem Riep, when they saw her.
A tiny girl standing on a dirt floor under a house on stilts – she had no CLOTHES, no HAIR, and no NAME...
She was clearly malnourished and had been trying to draw clothes on her body with a red marking pen she had found."
Flight Attendants, who have signed up as Champions for Children volunteers for the Change for the Good Program on American Airlines and helped raise donations for UNICEF while on the job!
Change for the Good on American Airlines has begun on select domestic flights and we hope to raise $1Millon this year!
Read an article about one of the program beneficiaries here, learn more about Change for the Good, and preview the new inflight video, showing on American Airlines flights, above.
