"At such a young and tender age, it is remarkable that our children are so informed and, so compassionate, to the less fortunate citizens of the world facing Humanitarian Crisis.
Hands Across the Skies Ltd is a UK Charitable Company Limited by Guarantee. UK Registration Number:1416971. Hands Across the Skies is an Aviation Airbridge Solution Provider. Incorporated to serve and assist by providing philanthropic Air Transportation services to children in crisis areas around the world.
Mothers in despair, in tears, holding their children tight, teddies under arm and, a quickly thrown together suitcase… as they clambered over the rubble of what until a few hours previous, were their homes, their security, their stability, the very hub of vital mental and physical reassurances.
The footage showed Fathers kissing their children and wife's goodbye, as the family unit was separated. Fathers to war… Mothers and daughters heading off to an unknown destination in search of safety and security, facing the fears of being unable to provide… and a mind full of uncertainty, desperation and knowing of the images burned into the minds that no child should ever have to see.
The origin of this project started with a 5yr old girl watching the early evening news on TV in England. The footage shown during the report, immediately resonated with Madison… young children of her age and, her school year group, fleeing their homes in Ukraine. Children visibly shaken, frightened…. shattered minds in emotional distress… living in daily fear for their lives and their families.
With tears in her eyes, Madison looked bewildered as she pleaded "We have to help! What can we do Daddy? They can have my toys, books and my blankets. Why is this happening to them Daddy? I can ask my friends at school to help. Her Daddy didn’t have all the answers.
So together, Madison and her Daddy put our thinking caps on.
Between March 20th and April 2nd, 2022, Madison reached out to children in Ukraine, Bulgaria, USA and the UK.
AIRBRIDGE #001 - INAUGURAL FLIGHT - 15TH AUGUST 2022 DONE!
18 Tonnes Humanitarian Aid
Ukraine Relief / Red Cross Bulgaria
Milton Keynes girl, 6, joins Ukraine aid flight after charity idea
A six-year-old girl and her father have helped to deliver aid supplies to Ukrainian families after she decided she wanted to help.
Madison, from Milton Keynes, said she was upset to see scenes of the conflict between Russia and Ukraine on TV and started a charity with her dad Mark Baker, who works in aviation.
They chartered a plane from Luton Airport and flew to neighbouring Bulgaria with toys and supplies collected as part of their charity Hands Across the Skies.
Mr Baker said: "The need that we can sense here just by being in the room with the Red Cross and the Foundation for Good, it shows us that we're doing the right thing and gives us the momentum to continue.
Join hands… Bridge the skies…
#handsacrosstheskies
AIRBRIDGE #002 - 14TH SEPTEMBER 2022. DONE!
. 35 Tonnes Humanitarian Aid
UK Pakistan Flood Relief / Amir Khan Foundation
Hands Across the Skies have departed again from Milton Keynes.
Donation to support Amir Khan Campaign for Flood Relief.
On Wednesday 14th September 2022, Hands Across the Skies, The Amir Khan Foundation and 35 tonnes of UK donated Aid, departed the UK for Islamabad. Our Humanitarian Aid Airbridge Solution from the UK has been donated to the Amir Khan Foundation, for the benefit of the Children and families of Pakistan, who are enduring the Humanitarian Crisis which is rapidly unfolding as a result of catastrophic floods.
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AIRBRIDGE #3- 24TH OCTOBER 2022
130 Tonnes Humanitarian Aid
UK / USA / UKRAINE JOINT PROGRAMME
MISSION 823 & AMIR KHAN FOUNDATION
Our Donors of The Aid to Ukraine from USA / UK
Hands Across the Skies will co-ordinate the Aid Airbridge and, has joined hands with our Corporate Partners, The Amir Khan (Two Time World Boxing Champion) Foundation in the UK, Mission 823 in the USA and Ukraine Relief in Poland, to deliver this special mobilisation project for the Children and People of Ukraine.
Humanitarian Airbridge Solutions...From Our Children... To Yours
Alesya Nuromskaya Aged 5yrs, Kyiv, Ukraine
Now Refugee in Sofia, Bulgaria
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Madison Manni-Baker, Aged 6yrs, Milton Keynes, UK.
Thornton College Year 1
Hands Across the Skies Mission Statement
1. To Provide online Communication equipment and platforms and to facilitate the communication for OUR Children to let Children in Humanitarian Crisis Areas around the world know that… We See YOU... We Hear YOUR Voices... We support YOU. Messages giving love, kindness, hope and support from OUR C
Hands Across the Skies Mission Statement
1. To Provide online Communication equipment and platforms and to facilitate the communication for OUR Children to let Children in Humanitarian Crisis Areas around the world know that… We See YOU... We Hear YOUR Voices... We support YOU. Messages giving love, kindness, hope and support from OUR Children to YOURS.
2. We shall endeavour To Deliver UK Sourced Humanitarian Aid Airbridge Solutions Globally… Providing Children Focused Humanitarian Aid Donated by Agencies and Foundations from around the world…. Delivering from “Our Children to Yours”
3. To assist wherever possible to help Safeguard, Protect and, Preserve the Wealth of a Nation… its YOUTH.
4 To provide aviation industry education, training and employment opportunities to the children and students who will ensure, guide, and lead the future of Aviation.
Hands Across the Skies Vision Statement
Social Media / Communications – The Children’s Voices – To Be Heard and To Be Seen
1. To Provide a range of online social media and Other Communication equipment and platforms provided for OUR Children to let Children in Humanitarian Crisis Areas around the world know that… We See YOU... We Hear YOU
Hands Across the Skies Vision Statement
Social Media / Communications – The Children’s Voices – To Be Heard and To Be Seen
1. To Provide a range of online social media and Other Communication equipment and platforms provided for OUR Children to let Children in Humanitarian Crisis Areas around the world know that… We See YOU... We Hear YOUR Voices... We support YOU. Messages able to be delivered personally giving hope and support from OUR Children to YOURS and for children displaced to call home, friends and family.
2. To become the online media and social media platform of choice, that will allow OUR Children a Safeguarded online environment to communicate and, to let Children in Humanitarian Crisis situations know that… We See YOU…We Hear YOUR Voices… We Support YOU.
3.To carry messages of support, love, kindness and caring “From OUR Children To YOURS”
Humanitarian Aid Airbridge Solutions – Our Transporting & Delivery of Aid to the Children
1. To become a Global Humanitarian Airbridge Solution Provider to Children; providing philanthropy funded solutions of Aid to Children in Crisis “From Our Children to Yours” as a registered Non-Profit Charity Organisation based in the United Kingdom; operating in compliance and with Board/ Trustees strict adherence to UK/International legislations and regulations.
2. Act promptly and efficiently in providing the desperately needed aviation airbridge solutions to children around the world in times of Humanitarian Crisis where we are able
3. To support and provide Humanitarian Airbridge Solutions to Children Focused NGO/ Foundations and, Charity Organisations Globally in delivering of their Humanitarian Aid to Children.
4.To carry the vital life support donations, donated goods, and the millions of hearts and minds messages of hope from the hands and minds of children from all over the world …. into the hands and minds of the children in Ukraine… and those within bordering nation refugee settlements.
5. To assist wherever possible to help Safeguard, Protect and, Preserve the Wealth of a Nation… its YOUTH.
Aviation. Education. Training. Communication. Philanthropy
Key ingredients of our global messages which are unified in purpose, actions, and belief, as we reach out and join "Hands Across the Skies" from the UK in to 29 Countries worldwide
Our Advisory Board
Dr. Pascual Marques, CEO, Oxford Aerospace
Dr. Elena Spiridon, Head of Psychology
Dr. Hristo Grigorov, President, Red Cross BG
Salvador Ahumada, CEO, ACEIS Capital
Saad Awan, CEO, Amir Khan Foundation
Phill Morris, Head of Aviation
Chris Piggott, CEO, Heliquip Ltd
Mark Hammann, CEO, Silver Leaf Capital
Our Advisory Board
Dr. Pascual Marques, CEO, Oxford Aerospace
Dr. Elena Spiridon, Head of Psychology
Dr. Hristo Grigorov, President, Red Cross BG
Salvador Ahumada, CEO, ACEIS Capital
Saad Awan, CEO, Amir Khan Foundation
Phill Morris, Head of Aviation
Chris Piggott, CEO, Heliquip Ltd
Mark Hammann, CEO, Silver Leaf Capital
Lidia Martin, Humanitarian
Todor Ivandjikov, President, BAIA
Ian Insley, Head of Legal
From OUR Children... To YOURS