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Burkina Faso to Paris to Chicago

Olivia from Burkina Faso who we escorted from Chicago to Paris. AA flight attendants Terry Bobbitt and Masako Doi each accompanied her on a portion of her journey.

China

The ti. On 30Jan. AA flight attendant Maria Malon accompwo attached pics are before and after pictures of 13 mos. old Xinruanied him from Beijing to Ohio where he had surgery to correct a cleft lip and palate. All healthy and happy, we returned him in April to his excited parents. AA flight attendant Jody Gross brought him from Columbus, OH to Chicago where they met AA employee Richard Detweiler who accompanied him on the long flight from Chicago to Beijing. Maria was also at Ohare to say goodbye and wish him well. Everyone who met this baby seemed to fall in love with him. Maria is in the "before" pic and Richard Detweiler and Jody Gross are in the "after" pic with Baby Xinrui.

Ivory Coast

I recently participated in an Airline Ambassador project to help bring a couple of babies from Africa who were headed to the US to have surgery in Ohio. I was part of a team of escorts in a quite complicated maze of paperwork, visas, and dozens of other details that our director, Margaret seems to manage flawlessly. Read More . . .

Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso

The picture is of our escorts, AA flight attendants Masako Doi and Danielle deBeauffort, and Melinda Morenz, a former AA flight attendant, in the CDG Airport in Paris as they receive 3 little patients from the two Air France escorts who brought them from Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso. Since the two babies were both coming for heart surgeries Melinda, who is also an RN, was all prepared to check them out and make sure they were doing well on their long journey. The trip went well and they were met in Ohare by two new escorts,

Soad Hamdan and Christian Robinson, both AA flight attendants who accompanied them to their final destinations in the U.S. Although there were so many things that could have gone wrong on such a complicated trip, everything went exactly as planned. All three children are having their surgeries and we expect to be able to return them to their homeland in a few weeks with help once again from our friends at Aviation sans Frontieres in Paris.

Masako Doi, a "non-stop" Children's Escort

Honduras

Linda Vigil-Feeney escorts Ani back to Honduras. Read the story in the Santa Fe Hometown News...

Ghana

Continental agent and AAI escort, Hester Fleck, with Baby Alhassan, who she took home to Accra, Ghana last week after corrective surgery in Ohio. Read Hester's report.

Belize

Kathy Savage and Frances Little (both DFWAA flight attendants) escort 4 orthopedic patients through winter weather. The children enjoy the adventure! Read more...

China

American Airlines Flight Attendant, Terry Bobbitt recounts her trip with Li Yunfei.

"What is it in the innocence of a child that so easily gives way to new experiences, new places, new people…new life, without a moment’s hesitation?

Get the full story...

Haiti

Kathy Gonzalez , American Airlines Flight Attendant,

escorts Binaldo home to Haiti.

Kathy fills us in here...

China

Kathy Savage, American Airlines' flight attendant,

escorts YuYu home to China following corrective heart surgery. This bond continues and grows. Now, the Escort Programis supporting the sponsorship of children in an orphanage, in China, through the Chinese Agape Foundation. For more information about the sponsorship program and how you can help, please contact patbrown10@gmail.com

or paigeagape@gmail.com.

Please read more about how this very special escort trip,

and these very special people, took their great work to even greater heights!

Quito

Jim Ware, the American Eagle GM at Houston Hobby did an escort from Quito to Phoenix on Tuesday, accompanying Samir, age 10.
Samir will have a surgical procedure and we are all hopeful it will go well for him.

Jim reports about the trip.

Honduras

William Rivera, American Airlines' flight attendant,

escorts Maria to Tegucigalpa, following successful,

critical surgery.

During the trip, Maria affectionately called William,

"Loco (crazy) Monkey" instead of William.

Read more about their very special friendship here...

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