The Happy List

Facing adversity can bring you down, or it can bring about positive change to improve your life. Penny Rambacher shares her journey to happiness after beating breast cancer at age 38 and being down sized by Corporate America.  Through breath-taking photography, you will travel to New Zealand with Penny as she backpacks solo, reinventing her life with “The Happy List.” You’ll hear how she made the bold decision that life should be filled with more of the things you love and less of the things you don’t. Her moving stories and photos will take you to a garbage dump in Quito, Ecuador, where Penny first found inspiration to help impoverished people and then to the indigenous rural villages of Guatemala, where Penny has found happiness in making a difference in the lives of the people who live there. Through her organization, Miracles in Action, she is helping others make a difference, too.

Lessons From an Afghan Refugee Camp

With the plight of refugees more and more in the news every day, former American Airlines flight attendant, Penny Rambacher, chronicles her experience at an
Afghan refugee camp. Six months after the 9-11 terrorists attacks, Penny traveled to the Pakistan/Afghanistan border to distribute humanitarian aid to Afghan refugees there. Penny’s moving stories and photos will shed light on what it’s like to be a refugee fleeing your own country to avoid war, ethnic cleansing or starvation and the lessons she learned there.

Traveling to Make a Difference

As a flight attendant for American Airlines, Penny Rambacher, has had the opportunity to travel around the world for work, for pleasure, and for making a difference in the lives of the poor. Penny will share her cultural
experiences, observations, and the ways that she gives back to the people she visits. Travel along with Penny through her moving photography and heartwarming stories from Ecuador, Galapagos Islands, Jordan, Peru, Argentina, Pakistan, Afghanistan and Guatemala, and learn how you can make a difference, too.

The Story of Miracles In Action

If you have ever wondered whether ordinary people can make a difference in the world, the answer is yes. Hear the story of former American Airlines flight attendant Penny Rambacher and her mom, Noreen, who started Miracles in Action in 2005 as a response to the extreme poverty they saw while traveling together in Central and South America. Penny shares how her Happy List and Noreen’s legacy were the foundation of Miracles in Action – an organization dedicated to the idea that education is the surest way out of poverty. To date, Miracles In Action has built more than 54 schools in the last 12 years with help from people just like you. During this time, Penny
as also built a thriving fair trade cottage industry, employing 135 artisans that are able to work themselves out of poverty to provide a better life for themselves and their children.

Human Trafficking in Our Backyard

Human trafficking is one of the most lucrative criminal enterprises in the world. In Guatemala, however, trafficking children for sexual exploitation is something of a crisis, with 57 percent of victims under the age of 18, according to a new U.N. report. As a frequent traveler to Guatemala, former American Airlines flight attendant, Penny Rambacher, shares her experiences on why parents send their girls to SW Florida, the horrors of the journey, and the reality of life as a slave right here in our backyard. She also talks about how her organization, Miracles in Action, has been effective in reducing child slavery, and how you can help to educate youth on protecting themselves from manipulation and trafficking see www.causevision.org