AirAsia Foundation holds training on human trafficking awareness

With the support of the United States Department of State, AirAsia Foundation has organized training sessions across AirAsia hubs in the Philippines, Malaysia, Thailand and Indonesia to raise awareness on human trafficking. Three officials from Airline Ambassadors International (AAI), led by its president (4th from left) Nancy Rivard, Andrea Hobart, AAI’s Director of Trafficking Awareness Program, and (second from right) Donna Hubbard, Flight attendant with American Airlines and also a survivor of trafficking, were in Manila last August 14 to conduct training sessions to pilots, cabin crew, ground services team, airport immigration officers and security team.

As a responsible airline, AirAsia is concerned about the situation in view of global statistics that 25% of trafficking victims originate from Asean. Human trafficking is a global security challenge which requires a global response the airline said. By linking up to a network of airlines, AirAsia intends to play its part to combat trafficking according to (3rd from right) Mun Ching Yap, executive director of AirAsia Foundation. She is joined by AirAsia Philippines head of people department (2nd from left) Barbara Sanchez, AirAsia Philippines CEO Captain Dexter Comendador and AirAsia Philippines Chairperson Maan Hontiveros (6th from left).

With the support of the United States Department of State, AirAsia Foundation has organized training sessions across AirAsia hubs in the Philippines, Malaysia, Thailand and Indonesia to raise awareness on human trafficking. Three officials from Airline Ambassadors International (AAI), led by its president (3rd from right) Nancy Rivard, Donna Hubbard, Flight attendant with American Airlines and also a survivor of trafficking, and Andrea Hobart, AAI’s Director of Trafficking Awareness Program were in Manila last August 14 to conduct training sessions to pilots, cabin crew, airport immigration officers and security team.

As a responsible airline, AirAsia is concerned about the situation in view of global statistics that 25% of trafficking victims originate from Asean. Human trafficking is a global security challenge which requires a global response the airline said. By linking up to a network of airlines, AirAsia intends to play its part to Wcombat trafficking according to (right) Mun Ching Yap, executive director of AirAsia Foundation. She is joined in the photo by (3rd from left) AirAsia Philippines CEO Captain Dexter Comendador, NAIA Immigration officers and (5th from left) William Patchak, political assistant from US Embassy Manila office.