Angel Flight(R) Southeast Offers `Divine' Holiday Gifts to Support Air Missions of Mercy.

LEESBURG, Fla. -- Angel Flight(R) Southeast (AFSE), the 23-year-old, nonprofit charity that has coordinated nearly 3,500 free medical and humanitarian flights in 2005, is offering a variety of gifts appropriate for holiday giving. These include a limited-edition, three-dimensional gold-plated ornament, a custom-designed pearl pendant by Lake County artist Marie Len, aviator teddy bears, angel bears and logo clothing, including a t-shirt remembering the victims and volunteers of Hurricane Katrina. The public can also "Adopt An Angel Flight" for a needy person or family.

Available for purchase on the Angel Flight Southeast web site, http://www.AngelFlightSE.org, these unique products, many created exclusively for this region of the Angel Flight(R) America (AFA) network, range from $10 to $40. Proceeds from sales of these items will go toward supporting the continuing mission of Angel Flight to remove the cost of air transportation as an obstacle to medical and humanitarian care for our fellow American citizens.

"As was noted in hundreds of news stories in both national and regional publications and broadcasts, Angel Flight Southeast, along with its dedicated sister AFA organizations, responded in an unprecedented way to the needs of thousands of our fellow Americans along the U.S. gulf coast after one of the most devastating hurricanes in decades," said Deborah Deal, president and CEO of Angel Flight Southeast (AFSE). "Every holiday gift purchased will provide our dedicated staff, volunteer private pilots and 'Earth Angels' (ground volunteers) with the additional resources they require to fulfill the record-breaking needs for distant specialized medical treatment and for other humanitarian missions that Angel Flight Southeast has been called to provide."

AFSE, a 501(c)(3) organization, helps thousands of people every year by recruiting highly qualified private pilots - more than 1,000 in AFSE's five-state region alone - to fly those with health problems to medical centers that can provide the special care their situation requires. Most of the people that AFSE coordinates missions for cannot afford a commercial airline ticket nor have a medical condition that is better accommodated with a private flight. AFSE also coordinates missions to fly disaster relief personnel and victims, organ transplant candidates; people involved in clinical trials, chemotherapy or other repetitive treatment; victims of abuse seeking relocation; those receiving help from Ronald McDonald(R) Houses, Shriners Hospitals and many other charities; disabled or sick children to special summer camp programs; and for many other humanitarian reasons.

AFSE is the Angel Flight America partner that is responsible for missions originating in Alabama, Florida, Georgia, Mississippi and South Carolina. However, through its relationships with other Angel Flight America regions, AFSE is able to serve all 50 states.

For more information, including on-line donations, go to http://www.angelflightse.org.