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Sponsor a child in Haiti to get Primary Education, their key to the future.
Thousands of children in Haiti have lost one or more parents in the horrible earthquake in January. Your financial support will help us provide one child with education, providing for school fees, books shoes and a school uniform.
As a sponsor, you can visit your child and become a valuable mentor, pen-pal and friend, caring for and encouraging your sponsored child. Via email letters, academic reports, photos and visits, you can share in your child’s hopes, challenges, goals and achievements - and play a crucial role in your child's progress. You can share personal stories and make a friend for life.
For children who have been orphaned or abandoned, this emotional sustenance is very precious, and can promote their recovery and growth.
 . . . AND ONE SPECIAL CHILD WILL BECOME PART OF YOUR LIFE
Sponsoring a child is one of the most effective and rewarding ways in which individuals can support orphans and vulnerable children in Haiti. Your gift will be administered through Paula Antoine, Virgo Maria, not only lets us continue our fundamental operations, but helps us invite even more children into a new world of love, learning and opportunity. We are arranging to visit each orphanage program at least two times a year, so we hope you will join us in visiting your child. Thank you for becoming a sponsor in supporting orphans and vulnerable children!
How to Pay & Sign Up
 $20.00 per month covers school fees for one child.
The sponsorship program allows you to contribute to sponsor school fees for one child. Pictured to the left is Andre Lucent, the first child we agreed to sponsor as Airline Ambassadors.
Airline Ambassadors transfers 90% of your donation to Virgo Maria, the prayer group that has identified children in desperate need since the earthquake. The group was started by Paula Antoine, house-mother for our volunteer compound at Delmas 33, and it has an outreach to 3,000. 10 women form the Board of Virgo Maria, a Haitian registered non-profit, and are in close touch with these children and will arrange a meeting if you visit. Your donation will allow your child to attend school.
Pay securely online via our PayPal account.
You can pay via a one-time donation or by monthly donations.
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It is also possible to pay via check in one-month, six-month or one-year installments. We do recommend that you set up an online bill pay or automatic check from your bank to Airline Ambassadors, but you may also send checks to:
Airline Ambassadors International
418 California Avenue Suite 459
Moss Beach, CA 94038
To help us record your payment promptly, please be sure to include your name and address on (or with) the check, and to indicate "New Sponsorship" in the memo line.
While many of our sponsors enjoy e-mail correspondence with their sponsored children, and even visit, this participation is by no means a requirement of sponsorship. We also recognize that life can bring unexpected changes and challenges, and you are free to end your sponsorship at any time.
Here are a few children needing sponsors now:
Andre Lucent 15 years old
Andre was playing soccer outside after school when he heard the terrible roar of the earthquake. Terrified, he ran 2 kilometers back to his house….only to find it collapsed. His mother, father and baby sister Angelina were inside. Paula Antoine, President of Virgo Maria, heard him crying on the street one night, head in hands, rocking back and forth…with no home, no food, no friends, and no future.
Paula took him in, and for now he is living in Cape Haitian with extended family. He wants to go back to school in Port au Prince, but we must find him a sponsor so he can have hope to become an engineer someday.
Pierre Jean Charles 5 years old
 Pierre was born in Port au Prince in 2005, near the garbage dump near Citie Soliel – he never knew his father was but he lived in one room with his mother and an older brother and 3 younger sisters.
In order to feed the family, his older brother worked as a garbage picker and Pierre sometimes helped to pick through the garbage for food. His mother stayed at home to look after the house and small children. They were all always hungry. Pierre and his brother were orphaned after the earthquake. His brother has disappeared, to fend for himself on the streets and Pierre was taken in by one of the women of Virgo Maria.
Pierre would like to attend school, but now he only dreams about the day when he would be able to return to school and someday become a policeman.
Randolf Jean Marc, 6 years old
Randolf lost his father in the earthquake, and his mother does not have the $ to send him to school this year. Knowing that primary education is a child’ s only way out of poverty, she prayed to God for help at church one day, and began to cry. She opened her eyes in response to a hand on her shoulder, “What are you crying for?” asked Paula Antoine, “I want my son to be able to attend school” she cried. “My prayer group – Virgo Maria, pray for you. We will pray for $ to pay the school fees you need."
Of course Randolf and his mother hope that someone will sponsor him, but the little guy was delighted when we gave him brand new sunglasses and an Airline Ambassadors hat, just for taking the time to meet with us.
Marie Valcourt, 16 years old
Marie’s life was also devastated after the earthquake, and still overcoming the grief of losing her father and two brothers, she and her sister are now homeless and live with their mom in the tent-camp in the park in Petion-Ville. Marie’s mother is now 8 months pregnant and going back to school is not a possibility for her unless she can get sponsored.
As a beautiful young woman, she is particularly vulnerable in the tent camp, and any support she can get at this critical time in her life would make such a difference. “I would like someday to be an artist”, she said, “I love colors so much”.
Won’t you help her dreams come true?
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