MAF News and Reports
Healthcare brings hope for the Turkana
The Turkana are some of Kenya’s most isolated and disadvantaged people. An estimated 90% of this pastoralist community live below the poverty line. Serving them are a team of roughly 20 healthcare workers at [...]
When the planes are the cargo
MAF Pilots Simon Wunderli and Christiaan Haak departed on a flight that was out-of-the-ordinary even for them: a multi-day ferry flight from Moundridge, Kansas, USA to Mareeba, Australia in order to deliver the first [...]
Issa’s story
MAF assists a christian ministry that helped South Sudanese refugee Issa overcome trauma and fear. Their very name in Swahili is a faith-filled declaration: Tutapona — ‘We will be healed!’. Nearly one million refugees [...]
Ebola relief efforts continue despite temporary relocation
Ebola relief efforts continue despite temporary relocation.Mission Aviation Fellowship (MAF) has been transporting vaccines, medical personnel and supplies, and sanitation equipment into the North Kivu province of the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) since [...]
Island Medevac in Timor-Leste
Living life waiting for the phone to ring is a big part of a pilot’s life in Timor-Leste. Even on public holidays, birthdays and Christmas Day, a pilot and a hangar assistant are ready [...]
A 45-minute flight helps provide the gift of sight
In November 2018, pilot Patrick Keller flew a team of Italian eye doctors who had spent a fortnight restoring sight in Madagascar. The 45-minute flight from Ambatondrazaka saves a day’s journey by road allowing [...]