MAF News and Reports
MAF and Medair – Reaching the most vulnerable in remote areas of the world
International emergency relief and recovery organization Medair and Mission Aviation Fellowship (MAF) have signed a formal agreement to continue working closely together during emergency responses and ongoing humanitarian operations. The partnership between MAF and Medair [...]
The last call of the day
While shutting down scheduled flights for the weekend, MAF was called to make an emergency medevac when a woman was stung by a stingray. It was 4:30pm on a Friday and the operations team at [...]
Improving wellbeing and health of vulnerable communities
Cooperating with local operators in hospitals, health centers, villages and universities, MAF helps partner organization CUAMM protect and improve the wellbeing and health of vulnerable communities in Sub-Saharan Africa. Founded in 1950, Doctors with Africa [...]
Without engineers we cannot fly!
When you operate aircraft in remote places, difficulties like gauges not working correctly or other engineering problems can be quite significant. This week there was a chance that MAF in Timor-Leste would have no aircraft [...]
Unscheduled opportunities to serve
Mission Aviation Fellowship’s work in Arnhem Land provides Aboriginal homelands and communities with access to healthcare, education and development opportunities. Gangan is a remote inland river community in East Arnhem Land. Despite being one of [...]
Peace deserves a chance
Education, vocational training, health-care, and consistent teaching of the values of peace and reconciliation has almost brought traditional cattle raids and revengeful killings to an end in Kuron, South Sudan. “Peace Deserves a Chance” [...]