Sound of Freedom launches in United States and El Salvador!
22 Million people saw Sound of Freedom the first 2 days after it launched July 4 in the US,
& El Salvador followed with a launch on July 28, 2023 See this video
Angel Studios is moving to El Salvador and stay tuned for the sequel.
Eduardo Verástegui, producer, met with President Bukele to sign a letter& work together for the eradication of trafficking
and sexual exploitation of children and adolescents in El Salvador.
After the showing the film was made available to all schools in El Salvador and theaters accross the nation in an effort to raise awareness.
Olga de Bukele and Nancy Rivard of Airline Ambassadors joined the Press Confererence with President Nayib Bukele and Eduardo & AAI colleague Helga Flores with Eduardo to right:
Let this launch the movement that
God’s Children are No Longer for Sale!
The film opened in the USA on July 4, and screening in other countries is scheduled the end of August.
Based on true events, the film tells the story of Tim Ballard (played by actor Jim Caviezel), a former United States Homeland Security agent who quit his job to devote himself to saving the lives of hundreds of children in Latin America from drug trafficking. people.
The direction of the story, Mexican filmmaker Alejandro Monteverde and was produced by Eduardo Verástegui, who also acts in the film.The performances, led by Caviezel, (who played Jesus Christ in the Passion) also include the winner of an Oscar and a Golden Globe, Mira Sorvino, in the role of Katherine Ballard, as well as the famous supporting actor Bill Camp and the Honduran-American José Zúñiga (from “ Twilight”), among others.The screening took place at the Teatro Presidente.
Nancy received an award from actress Marisol Nichols and her Foundation for a Slavery Free World in 2015 where she first met Tim Ballard, and subsuquently Airline Ambassadors began highlighting the important rescue operatons of Underground Railroad.
See official trailer here
AAI’s star trainer Donna Hubbard on Fox News
https://www.foxnews.com/video/6332135401112
Here is the AAI plan to revamp human trafficking efforts combatting Human Slavery:
Building upon the legacy of Airline Ambassadors accomplishments as a leader in aviation training on human trafficking awareness, and excellent background (ECOSOC NGO with the United Nations, formal MOU’s with UNODC, Interpol and the US Army Southern Command), participation on the Department of Transportation Advisory Council on Human Trafficking, and the White House Council on Human Trafficking, we have a unique opportunity to augment our AAI Human Trafficking Program.
Our goal is to bring El Salvador to a Tier 1 (in the US State Department’s Human Trafficking list instead of Tier 2 Watchlist. We have the tools for success. With the presidential launch of the Sound of Freedom in El Salvador on July 28, and Angel Studios putting a base in the country, the second film could be shot here, placing El Salvador at the front of the fight against Human Slavery.
Additionally:
The US Army (via the Veterans Affairs Transition Assistance Program) will fund salaries for four or more highly qualified US Special Forces officers to work for Airline Ambassadors full time for one entire year starting in October 2023. (An In kind donation of at least $288,000.00)
Four Special Forces recruits have already been selected. All of these new volunteers have high security clearances and are highly competent, and motivated to assist AAI operations per counter human trafficking endeavors where we left off (like many organizations) before the COVID Pandemic.
This work would occur in the “Northern Triangle” countries of El Salvador, Honduras and Guatemala and additionally in Mexico. This would place highly professional personnel within AAI. Our new model could influence the region, but because of our global affiliations with the AAI sphere (UNODC, INTERPOL, INL etc.), the world.
Our Airline Ambassadors office will be in the former “White House” of El Salvador. We would have the new special forces employees focus on the four P”s of Human trafficking in El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras & Mexico.
Their work conforms to the Trafficking Victims Protection Act four P Principle:
Prevention –implementing trainings and airports and hotels)
The team (with input from our Survivor Trainers), would review and update and translate into Spanish our basic human trafficking awareness training, trainings and Identify key airports and hotel chains in El Salvador, Honduras, Guatemala and Mexico where the training could be offered.
Protection – Identify the best shelters for human trafficking.
The new team would systematically categorize the shelters in each country where trafficking victims could be taken when rescued. Looking at “best practices we could share this database with relevant law enforcement and other NGO’s with relevant statistics.
Prosecution – Revamp and implement our TIP LINE App
This would provide time sensitive data in real time – data rich reporting of potential trafficking cases, and train personnel to manage the dashboard for this tip line in each major airport. This will provide a shared database for all law enforcement)
Partnership – Airline Ambassadors hosts conference in El Salvador
Airline Ambassadors would convene a conference at the United Nations and El Salvador would convene a major conference on human trafficking. Participants would include relevant authorities from all four countries, survivors of trafficking, NGOs, airports and hotels, Interpol, UNODC, Operation Underground Railroad, Crime Stoppers, INL, DHS and more.
