In this issue

• Call To Action
• Special Events
• Featured Trip
• Bravo's
• Thank yous!
• Media
• Children's Escort News
• Campaigns
• Missions
• eUpdate Archive

Media

TravelPro Announces Partnership

with Airline Ambassadors

International as

Their Global Charity!

The April Press Release...

Once again, Airline Ambassadors

will be featured  on Direct TV, 

May 17, "Hometown Heroes",

hosted by Joan Lunden.  For more...

Children's

Escort Volunteers

Margaret Whitehead,

Director of the

Children's Escort Program, 

shares Escort Stories!

What does it mean?

Becoming an escort?

Read Escort Reflections: 

Reported by Terry Bobbitt,

American Airlines' Flight Attendant.

Campaigns

The March Mexico Mission was an

incredible success!

AAI Coordinator, Becky Gahman,

files her story.  If you can help

support the projects, please visit

our Donate to a Project page to

help continue the missions and

deliver on-going aid.

Thank you!

*  All donations are

tax deductible.

Missions

Whether it's Guatemala

South Africa , or Tanzania...

there's a trip for you!

Watch our

2009 Travel Calendar

for postings that

fit your schedule,

skills, and passions!

Did you miss

any eUpdates?

Visit the Airline Ambassadors'

eUpdate Archive for past issues!

Pass it on

If you know someone who

may be interested in

receiving this newsletter,

please send the eUpdate to

a friend!

To Donate to

Airline Ambassadors,

please visit our website.

Thank you

for your support!

Call To Action

Our Campaigns Continue...

We are all part of one

global family...and a little

can go a long, long

way.  Visit our

Donate to a Project

section to support

children in Argentina,

Haiti, Mexico,

South Africa , Cameroon

and more.

Thanks to 60 AAI members who participated at the MDG Awards at the

United Nations, and the IDB Conference in Medellin.  We had an

opportunity to network with global leaders on the forefront of building a

better world.   Now, join our team at the upcoming:

CARE

National Conference

and Celebration

May 5 & 6, 2009

Washington, D.C.

Demand a world without poverty. 

This two day event is a unique opportunity to help keep American 

policymakers focused on issues of poverty, women's empowerment, 

social equity and justice. Please read Shannon DeWitt's report about 

last year's conference and consider joining us. 

Register here...

Following registration, please contact AAI Coordinator, Shannon DeWitt at  believesucceed@hotmail.com.  For more details about this year's event, visit CARE's site and review the Summary and Highights for 2009. 

Thailand, Cambodia

Peter Greenberg, Travel Editor, Today, is joining our special trip in June.

Airline Ambassadors' First Trip with Virtuosso Exotissmo Travel.

Deanna Frieze won this trip at the

2008 Compassion Ball.  She will

visit Airline Ambassador projects

in Cambodia and Thailand. Join us

and see the ancient temple of

Angor Wat, and enjoy a First Class

visit during which you will

also support orphans, artisans

and elephants! 

In Cambodia the team is visiting

our Adopted Project,

Flow Orphanage and Cambodia Children's Fund.

In Thailand, the itinerary will

include visiting the  Duang

Prateep Foundation and E.L.E.

Elephant Conservation Camp. 

AAI members, Liz Allen and

Mark Fangue, of Exotic World

Gifts, discovered the E.L.E. camp

and are now avid about South

Asian elephant conservation. 

Don't miss Liz and Mark's

amazing, famous Elephant

Painting video, too.  It wil be

featured on National

Geographic, Animal Planet....and

more!

Email missionsadmin@airlineamb.org for more info about how to join

this exclusive trip!      

Bravo to:

Peggy Shelly and her daughters,

Kasey (18) and Stephanie (15),

collected funds at their high

school, Ursuline Academy and

took a Spring Break trip

to Guatemala. 

They chose to use the money to

send some Guatemalan children

to school through the Mayan

Families organization.

Enjoy their Story From The Field and catch up on other stories, too! 

Bravo to the Shelly Family!!

Thank yous!

News from El Salvador and Iraq

American Airlines delivers again!

Patty McPeak, Chairman of the Board of AAI and

Founder of The RicePatty Foundation, donates food to

provide nutrition and relief.

Thank you to American for transporting 3,000 lbs

of Patty McPeak's donation of "Manna" to

El Salvador's Benjamin Bloom Hospital

Burn Center, to nourish the kids. 

And...there's more... American sent an

aircraft to Iraq, full of aid for

distribution to those in need in the

Middle East!

For more, read about "the first U.S.

commercial airline to take a cargo flight

into Iraq."

Haiti, El Salvador, Iraq....

Thank you to all!