Give A Mile has provided over 900 flights to those wishing to spend time with dying family members since 2013
SAULT STE. MARIE — Elaine Barr - originally from Garden River First Nation and now living in Surrey, B.C. - was recently able to spend some precious time with her terminally ill sister Linda Desautel in Sault Ste. Marie.
“It was so generous of them to do that for me and I urge everybody to donate air miles for people who really need to see their loved ones before they go,” Barr said."I still get to see her. That’s important to me.”“The inspiration was that I had an incredible friend by the name of Ryan Westerman. He was diagnosed with Stage 4 brain cancer. In the last year of his life he said ‘I need you here. I need someone to confide in,’” Crowe told SooToday.
Crowe said that while Westerman was in hospice, he was moved that many other hospice residents were not able to receive visits from family members because they could not afford air fares. “Everything is medically verified that a situation is terminal and there is a one-page application form that is taken to a flight review team. If approved, a person is connected to a travel agent and the flight is booked,” Crowe said.“One moment they don’t think they’re going to see their loved one again, then they get connected to Give A Mile and get a flight. One woman told me, because we were flying her daughter and granddaughter to her, that ‘this is the greatest gift somebody could give me.
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