While working as a flight attendant, Nancy Rivard began collecting complimentary toiletry items when staying in hotels, and she asked her co-workers to donate the shampoos and soaps they, too, had collected from hotels. Then, when Rivard was on a layover at an airport just a short drive to a Bosnian refugee camp, she delivered the toiletries
While working as a flight attendant, Nancy Rivard began collecting complimentary toiletry items when staying in hotels, and she asked her co-workers to donate the shampoos and soaps they, too, had collected from hotels. Then, when Rivard was on a layover at an airport just a short drive to a Bosnian refugee camp, she delivered the toiletries to those in need. She was so moved and inspired by the refugees' gratitude at being given these basic hygiene products that she decided to develop a network of co-workers and friends in the travel industry, forming the Airline Ambassadors. The unique flying privileges of her fellow flight attendants has allowed Airline Ambassadors to become a vital link between human need and human resources, delivering medical supplies, food and educational materials to children all over the world. It has established clinics, schools, feeding programs and has escorted thousands of children for life changing surgeries. Overall, more than 500,000 children have received care and aid from Airline Ambassadors.
NYDailyNews.com, 9/27/2011
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