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Monday, 12 April 2010 14:58

Two teddy bears on an honorable mission

Three months after the devastating earthquake in Haiti and hundreds of thousands of people are still in the direst of need. They still have no place to stay and greatly fear the upcoming rain season. Most quarters are scanty provisional dwellings that merely serve to protect people from the wind and rain.

Dwellings are even set up quite often on small traffic islands between streets. Luftfahrt ohne Grenzen e.V. / Wings of Help (LOG), after having shipped 500 tons of aid into the country, is now focusing on the provision of tents.
A large number of tents was flown to Haiti on April 1st, 2010 and another 400 tents will be brought to the region on the 15th of April.
Our partner, the airline Condor has assumed all costs for the transport of the tents. This is the third time that the charter airline has supported LOG actions with their aircrafts. The tents will be handed over in Port-au Prince and in the city of Petit Goâve.

Two globetrotting teddy bears will fly to Haiti in the cockpit of a Condor Boeing 767- 300. The two bears come from England, where they live with the LOG partner organization Aviation without Borders. They are on their way around the earth in pursuit of the next world record.
Not only does their flight log contain countless numbers of airplane models, it also contains quite some extraordinary flights. Amy and Louis have already flown at supersonic speed, travelled in the largest passenger airplane in the world, the "A380" and have even been aboard a hundred-year-old "Bleriot" moseying across the English Channel.

Once the bears have returned from Haiti, they will take to the wild blue yonder with the last man on the moon "Eugene Cernan" and the American flying hero "Sully" Sullenberger, who made aviation history with his landing on the Hudson River. After the bears have completed their flying careers, they will be auctioned off at an international event to the benefit of children in need.