Rewind on Passport Day 2014!

Passport Day 2014 was an absolute blast this year! Over 65 "world travelers" flew on Passport Day, a huge increase from 2013! The "frequent flyers" were children that "flew" to Kenya, Uganda, Nicaragua, India, and Mexico, the countries that HALO works in, without ever leaving their hometown!

The youth started in the USA before climbing aboard HALO airlines; then, take-off! Tasty ethnic foods were sampled, including Kenyan doughnuts and Mexican enchiladas. Yummy! Each youth also got to make a craft representative of the country they were in, like Nicaraguan maracas, Ugandan necklaces, and got Indian Henna tattoos.

The event was a total success and fun for everyone involved! The event couldn't have been so fun without HALO's UMKC Advocate Group, INDUS of UMKC, the African Student Cultural Organization, the Association of Latino American Students, and the African-American Culture House of UMKC to help make our "travelers" have the world adventure they'll never forget!

For more photos and other HALO information, please visit our Facebook page.  If you want to volunteer and be part of HALO’s mission, go to www.haloworldwide.org.

Getting traditional Henna tattoos at the India booth from an INDUS volunteer

All the flights for "HALO airlines" are on time for Passport Day!

UMKC's INDUS group do traditional Indian dances

HALO youth learn traditional dance moves from Kenya!

The luchador (traditional wrestler) at the Mexico booth poses with an excited world traveler!

The HALO Foundation Presents: Passport Day!

Do you know a child who has an eye for an adventure, to explore the wonders of the world? Bring them to The HALO Foundation’s Passport Day!

At Passport Day, children go around to visit all of HALO’s supported home countries–Mexico, India, Nicaragua, Uganda and Kenya. With each country, it’s a new passport stamp, art piece, dance, and language! By the end of the night, kids will have experienced the world without ever leaving their hometown!

Date: Thursday, November 20

Time: 6:00 pm-8:00 pm

Location: The Culture House at UMKC 5245 Rockhill Road

Kansas City, MO 64110

*Open to youth ages 5-18!*

If you’re interested, please RSVP here! The event is tomorrow and HALO would love to have you!

For more photos and other HALO information, please visit our Facebook page.  If you want to volunteer and be part of HALO’s mission, go to www.haloworldwide.org.

HALO Youth Learn to Lead!

With October gone and November here, HALO Youth are wrapping up October's Life Skill--Leadership. At the end of the month, HALO Youth and volunteers divided into groups to practice working together. As a group, they had to decide between 3 topics for their art piece: "This is what Leadership looks like," "Future Goals," or "I'm Passionate About…" . The groups also had to pick one art material to use for the majority of their project from a list of choices.

Together, HALO youth and volunteers created some wonderful artwork! It was a wonderful month, overall. However, as October has ended, HALO is looking forward to great things in November!

For more photos and other HALO information, please visit our Facebook page.  If you want to volunteer and be part of HALO’s mission, go to www.haloworldwide.org.

This “Future Goals” group only used colored pencils to show their goals, including things like “Happiness," graduating high school, and having a family.

This group chose “What I’m Passionate About” for their topic. This youth is passionate about basketball, and only used ribbon to make the basketball.

A “This is what Leadership looks like” interpretation – this time with magazines as the main medium. A lot of good quotes, including “Don’t Follow – Lead the Group” and “You never back down from a challenge, and you wouldn’t start now”.

This group chose “This is what Leadership looks like” for their topic and chose to paint a quote – “Treat others the same way you want to be treated.” Their medium of choice was watercolor – they even painted their hands and stamped them on the paper!

This group chose “What I’m Passionate About” for their topic – one youth is passionate about music and wrote some of her favorite lyrics, while the other youth is passionate about her relationship with her mom and making it work through their struggles.

This group chose “Future Goals” as their topic, and foam as their medium. One youth’s future goals is to be a mechanic and work on Ford vehicles!