Houston Flight Attendants raised nearly $19,000 in the 2008 Houston AIDS Walk March 9 as members of the “SWA Luvs Camp Hope” team. Camp Hope is a summer camp where children with HIV can “just be kids” instead of feeling like kids with a fatal disease. Several Southwest Airlines Flight Attendants spend the week as volunteer counselors at the camp.

On June 22, 2007, the Labor and Employee Relations department teamed up with the Dallas Sales office to Share the Spirit at the 2007 Martin Luther King, Jr. Community Center’s Annual Fan Drive. Every year the Community Center provides box fans to need based families and senior citizens in the Dallas area. This year, with donations from Employees, Southwest was able to purchase and donate over 175 box fans which were distributed at the Martin Luther King, Jr. Community Center. Way to Kick Tail!

SWA Finance and Corporate Communications MOWers (stands for Meals on Wheelers) delivered these coolers on wheels (generously donated by Rubbermaid) to the Visiting Nurses Assocation Meals On Wheels. Southwest Maintenance Employees got into the act by developing the stickers on the ice chests out of the same long-lasting adhesive stickers they use on the airplanes.

In addition to Employees at the local Meals On Wheels office,VNA Director of Volunteers Betsy Cox, VNA Director of Public Relations Robert Smith, and VNA President and CEO Robert Carpenter were there to accept the Coolers on Wheels from the Southwest MOWers.