Annual Report

Our 2007 Annual Report Can Be found here.

Our Mission

Ambassadors for Children (AFC) is a not-for-profit organization dedicated to serving children around the world through short-term humanitarian service trips and sustainable programs.

Our Vision

Ambassadors for Children will make a significant impact on world peace and understanding through face-to-face cultural exchanges. AFC trips provide hands-on interaction with disadvantaged children, balanced by opportunities for sightseeing and immersion in the native culture of the community served.

History

As former president and CEO of the largest travel club in the United States, Sally Brown followed her vision to combine travel with serving others and founded Ambassadors for Children in 1998. An Honorary Board of Governors was formed with a diverse membership including doctors, educators, travel experts, media specialists, and representatives from the business and non-profit sector. Ambassadors for Children is a 501(c)(3) not-for-profit organization dedicated to promoting peace and understanding through face to face cultural exchange opportunities. Since its conception, AFC has operated hundreds of humanitarian trips all over the world serving thousands of children and donating approximately 5 million dollars in aid.

What does AFC do?

Ambassadors for Children supports children in approximately 20 locations around the world by identifying and supporting sustainable programs, such as:

• Developing small businesses to aid poor families in Belize and El Salvador
  Building a school in Uganda
  Supporting orphanages and street kids in Mexico, and Kenya
  Implementing conflict resolution modules in Jamaican and South African schools
  Starting a computer center in India
  Providing books and financial support for children’s libraries in Nepal, Native American Reservations, Guatemala, and Jordan
  Supplying and shipping medical equipment to Serbia, El Salvador, Malawi, and Jordan

Ambassadors for Children also provides a large variety of activities for AFC volunteers traveling on a short-term humanitarian trip to implement in orphanages, schools, and communities.

What do volunteers do on short-term humanitarian trips?

• Teach English as a second language and implement educational modules (no skills or experience required)
  Supervise sporting and recreational activities at orphanages, schools and communities
  Assist in small construction projects
  Assist with medical and dental assessments of children
  

Deliver and distribute school supplies, back packs, books, hygiene kits, and other requested items from our global partners

AFC Credo

Grateful for the opportunity to experience the world and serve children as a global volunteer and because peace begins with the individual, I affirm my personal responsibility and commitment to:

Journey with an open mind and a gentle heart.

Accept with grace and gratitude the diversity I encounter.

Revere and protect the natural environment, which sustains all life.

Appreciate all cultures I discover.

Respect and thank my hosts for their welcome.

Offer my hand in friendship to everyone I meet.

Support services that share these views and act upon them and,

By my spirit, words, and actions, encourage others to travel the world in peace.