Poverty and Hunger
AIRLINE AMBASSADORS seeks to eliminate poverty and hunger by providing food and nutritional support for projects in Argentina, El Salvador, the Domincan Republic and Haiti.
We also have a Child Sponsorship program that promotes awareness of extreme poverty, helping our members remove children from poverty and hunger one by one. |
Universal Education
AIRLINE AMBASSADORS supports primary and secondary education for children in developing nations by providing school supplies, teachers' salaries and building schools. Our work in 2009 included programs in the Dominican Republic, Haiti, and Nicaragua. We also partnered with village leaders in the Zulu village of Nkundusi to refurbish the local crêche and support the community primary school.
AAI also engages young people in many of its humanitarian travel activities by providing an exciting educational opportunity in its Youth Program to appreciate other cultures, and make a positive difference in the global community. |
Empowering Women
AIRLINE AMBASSADORS understands that education of young women is pivotal to the sustainable development of local communities. We empower women through our vocational training programs such as the sewing program we began in El Salvador and our efforts in Cambodia and Thailand to combat human trafficking by supporting "safe houses" and technical transfer of usable skills for the job market.
We work with programs that provide training in the hospitality industry, computer science, the culinary arts, cosmotology and apparel. |
Child Health
AIRLINE AMBASSADORS works to reduce child mortality and improve general health by providing hygiene items (and training in their use) on most of our missions, This is complemented with nutritional and vitamin supplements as well as wholesome locally-produced food.
Projects in 2009 included:
* Deliveries to Haiti, South Africa,Uganda, and Mexico.
* Delivering enough medical supplies to open a hospital in the jungles of Guyana as well as providing volunteer medical care for local communities.
* Providing medical treatment for orphans in Columbia.
* Providing medical supplies for El Salvadors's Pediatric Hospital Bloom.
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Maternal Health
AIRLINE AMBASSADORS supports maternal health by providing hygiene kits and newborn kits for mothers. In 2009 we delivered to El Salvador, Nicaragua, the United States and the Dominican Republic. |
HIV/AIDS
AIRLINE AMBASSADORS provides support to an HIV/AIDS orphanage in Kwa Zulu Natal, South Africa. AAI supports the HIV/AIDS education and treatment centers in the House of Good Hope and Cristal House in Cape Town which support mothers and children of AIDS decimated families.
In Guatemala we provided HIV/AIDS educational literature and condoms for local coffee pickers associations. |
Environmental Sustainability
AIRLINE AMBASSADORS promotes environmental sustainability at each of our projects.
In 2009 we provided seeds for a sustainable agricultural program in South Africa, supported elephant conservation in Thailand, and turtle conservation in El Salvador. |
Development Partnerships
AIRLINE AMBASSADORS works with local government, business and NGO partners at each of our adopted projects to help build capacity in local communities.
In 2009 AAI received donations of aircraft to transport humanitarian assistance from American Airlines, JetBlue, the U.S. military and the Colombian National Police.
Also, in 2009, our work carried us to El Salvador where we partnered to build 150 homes, as well as providing wells for families in Cambodia. We also worked with the village chiefs of a Zulu village in South Africa to refurbish the local crêche and support the community primary school.
In 2009, AAI also partnered with local universities and technical schools in Ecuador and El Salvador to build technical capacity in the CASA program. |
