Air Canada swaps paid seats for much-needed relief for Haitians

As I was pursuing my friends’ updates on Facebook this past weekend, I learned that one of my friends, Sue, had been down to Haiti and back on a volunteer mission with her employer, Air Canada.

When I mentioned to her that this was an awesome thing for her to do, she humbly replied, “I truly felt honoured to be able to go”.  In fact this was an awesome thing for Air Canada to do. The benefit to the hundreds, if not thousands of earthquake victims are enormous. Of course, it doesn’t hurt their brand image either. But, this relief mission will profoundly impact the lives of the volunteers, their valued employees; something that could never have been done with a mere pay cheque. This type of win-win-win thinking is necessary for today’s organizations to be successful and sustainable in the future. Way to go Air Canada and way to go Sue!

This is her incredible story:

This weekend I was privileged to be a member of the Air Canada volunteer team, flying Air Canada’s fourth relief mission to Port-au-Prince bringing over 30,000 kilos of food, tents and medicine and returning home with 164 weary evacuees – all in just under 14 hours.

“Lespwa” is the Creole word for “hope”, and and they will require an enormous amount as they try to right their country after the widespread loss of life, injury and devastation of a major earthquake in January.  Our flight departed from our Toronto cargo hangar at 10:15 a.m. bursting at the seams with supplies…Read Article


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