Wallace Air Cargo Group doing good works here and abroad for children

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Wallace Air Cargo Group and the Phil Friedman Outdoor Youth Program have combined to get thousands of kids out on the water in 2012. The goal of the program is to introduce children to the great outdoors so that they will grow up to protect it.

Committee Chairman Sully Moore from Boy Scout troop 2000 in Fontana recently had a group of 60 kids and adults out on one of these trips. On Phil Friedman Outdoors Radio, Moore said that he believes there is an incredible learning opportunity on each of these trips. “Kids will never be the same after a trip like this,” said Moore. “After the kids touch, feel, and see these creatures, they are way less likely to dump oil in a storm drain,” said Moore.

There has also been something else happening on the Wallace Air Cargo trips this year. The groups that have been participating have been doing good deeds affecting people around the world. 

The children and adults from troop 2000 took up a collection for Crisbel Rodriguez in Costa Rica so that the straight A student could return to school. Ten year old Crisbel lost her father Christian to brain cancer and was unable to pay her tuition. “This is a win/win,” said Moore. “Thanks to Wallace Air Cargo Group, we get a day on the water that we will never forget and at the same time, we are able to reach out and help Crisbel go back to school.”

Earlier this year, Wallace Air Cargo Group funded two kids’ trips for Fishers of Men West Coast. Not only did a lot of kids get to go fishing but the two trips raised enough funds to ship over 5,000 pairs of shoes to the poor and indigent of Baja California. “Without Wallace Air Cargo Group, we not only could have not gone on these unbelievable trips but we could not have shipped all these shoes down south.”

Tim Barbee from 61st St. School in Los Angeles was out on a whale watching trip with over 100 kids and adults earlier in the year. "Let me make this clear; we would not have this opportunity if it were not for this program," said Barbee. "These trips mean more to our students than I can express in words."

Richard Imamura wrote the recent movie, the Manzanar Fishing Club and has become an avid supporter of what Ned Wallace is doing to make our communities better. “Top notch work making a difference in people’s lives,” said Imamura. “These are the kinds of acts that renew ones faith in humanity.” Imamura was so taken by the work that Wallace has been doing with the Phil Friedman Outdoor Youth Program that he included a 1-minute message from them on every Manzanar DVD.

 

Perhaps nothing sums up what these recent trips have done for our youth more than the case of two brothers from Wilmington, California. Nine year old Hector Medina and his 11-year old brother Manuel know nothing about the sea before they took a WACG trip about a year ago. Since that time, the boys have become walking encyclopedias about the sea and all that inhabits it.

Their mother, Gabriela says that this was one of those forks in the road that has changed her children’s lives. “I am so thankful for what this has done for my children,” she said. “Their grades are better, they have something they really love and they live to learn more and more about the sea. This has truly been a blessing in our lives.”

 

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