EMERGENCY TRAVEL PROGRAM

In 1994 when agencies expressed a need for travel for their clients throughout the year, the Home for the Holidays Project expanded and now encompasses the Emergency Travel Project.

This project provides transportation of immediate family and special friends (within reason) to funerals of people with AIDS, transportation of remains for burial, or the transportation of caregivers to the Metroplex to assist in the care of people living with AIDS..

Through the Emergency Travel Project:

• We were able to unite families from San Salvador, El Salvador; Monterey, Mexico; Leon, Mexico; and Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic.

•  We brought caregivers to Dallas.

• We sent people home in air ambulances to die in hospice care in their home cities with their families.

• We provided travel for remains of clients so they could be buried in their native land.

• We sent loved ones to funerals.

For more information on becoming eligible to receive benefits from our Home for the Holidays/Emergency Travel Project, please see your case manager/care coordinator.