Coming soon
When the system fails to bring children home, we send something that will.
The Paper Airplane Movement is a public advocacy campaign to close the missing treaty relationship between the United States and the Philippines under the 1980 Hague Convention on the Civil Aspects of International Child Abduction — and to bring one little girl, Zuri, home.
Launching soon — a way for everyday people to apply visible, peaceful pressure on the offices that can change this.
Why a paper airplane?
Born from a simple, painful truth.
When a child is taken across an international border, the 1980 Hague Convention is supposed to provide the road home. It only works when both countries are treaty partners.
That’s exactly where we are today between the United States and the Philippines — and that’s exactly what the Paper Airplane Project is working to change. A folded piece of paper can travel where a court order can’t. Stacked on the desks of the right officials, it becomes something they can’t ignore.
What’s coming
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A treaty gap, in plain English
We’ll explain why the missing U.S.–Philippines Hague relationship leaves American families with no path home — and what closing it would actually do.
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A folded paper, sent with purpose
Soon you’ll be able to fold, write, and mail a paper airplane to specific congressional offices. One airplane is a gesture. Thousands are a movement.
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Action, not just awareness
We’re asking elected officials to do something — not to retweet. The site will hand you the names, the script, and the next step.
Be ready when we launch.
We’re building the toolkit now — the letter templates, the office addresses, the campaign calendar. If you’re an advocate, a family, an elected official, or someone who just refuses to look away — say hello.
Follow the movement — site, toolkit, and call-to-action launching soon.