Miles4Migrants in the news!

A Honduran asylum-seeker tells her harrowing story of how she fled her home country under threat of gang violence.

How the Miles4Migrants Team Uses Donated Frequent Flyer Miles to Reunite Displaced Families Around the World

"We were separated on May 16, 2018, while crossing to the U.S. My son had just turned 6, and they told me that they were going to separate us because they were applying a zero tolerance immigration policy," Jorge said. "I was sent back [to Honduras], and they kept our son detained for five months."

"When I left my country, my wife was pregnant and I also had 3 other children..."

Juan and Diego are migrants from Honduras. As Diego has palsy and is unable to walk or speak, Juan carried his young son over 1500 miles to the US...

"I want to thank everyone who contributed to our reunion and brought happiness back to us..."

"I am fleeing my country because of the dictatorship, the aggressions, the massacres, the violence..."

Edgar (not his real name) had fled Honduras and come to the United States as an unaccompanied minor hoping to join an aunt in Portland. He was a 17 year old orphan...

It was a warm welcome at the airport after three years being separated. For [brothers] Khalil and Shah it was the first time they met each other! Shah was born half a year after Khalil left his family...

Childhood sweethearts Ahmed and Halima were apart for five years after they were married. Thanks to a Miles4Migrants donor, and through our partnership with Together Now, they are now reunited in the UK...

"The day of May 12, 2017 was a day of happiness and hope for me, as I arrived in Belgium and saw my mother, sister, and brother after two years of being separated..."

An Afghan unaccompanied teenage minor tells his story of how he was reunited with his family in Belgium.

Miles4Migrants Co-Founder Andy Freedman speaks with TYT's Cenk Uygur about the history and impact of Miles4Migrants.

[Mrs. Nshombo] was so happy to see her daughter this 20th of August 2018 at Brussels Airport after 8 years separation.

"As the plight of migrants around the world — from those ripped apart by the conflict in Syria to the children separated from their parents by the Trump administration’s zero-tolerance approach on border crossings — has occupied the news, more and more nonprofits have resorted to accepting points and miles as donations, using well-wishers’ loyalty programs to reunite those who haven’t seen their loved ones in years. Among them is Miles4Migrants..."

Miles4Migrants was featured in NonProfit Quarterly

Miles4Migrants was started in 2016, but received millions of extra donated miles after a tweet by a law professor in Michigan went viral.

[Ghassan, his wife, Zainab, and their five children] were reunited in April 2018 after over two long years apart!

After Wilensky's tweet, Miles4Migrants received almost 7 million miles.

"I am looking at my family right now and it is like I am in a dream, but it is real, I can't believe it," one of the families previously reunited by Miles4Migrants, shared this moment.

"We just used some to fly a 3-year-old and his dad, who had been separated at the border, from Michigan (where the son had been taken) to their extended family."

A viral tweet has inspired people to donate millions of frequent flyer miles to help reunite immigrant families separated at the US border

More people are helping to reunite children who were separated at the southern border with their parents.

by: Andy Freedman, Cofounder of Miles4Migrants

I was asking to God: “Please help us all together and protect us or take our souls all together but don’t let anyone of us suffer by the death of a part of the family.”