Author: Ryan Morris / Source: Good News Network
For the past 5 years, motivational speaker and frequent traveler Peter Shankman has donated his flyer miles to those in need – this year his donation exceeded 200,000 miles.
After realizing he had no use for his flyer miles, and no desire to use them, Shankman started giving his miles to close friends, family, and colleagues.
Once he saw how many remained in his account at the end of each year, he started a contest in which the miles were gifted to people in need.After his contest became popular on the social media site Imgur, others began donating their miles as well, collectively totaling 300,000 miles for this year’s contest.
In order to win a portion of the miles, individuals who need to fly home for the holidays, but have no means to do so, write a post detailing why they’d like to fly home. This year 5 families were reunited after writing in for the contest.
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