Imagine if your community had no roads and little access to the outside world. How would you or your family reach a doctor if you're sick or injured? How can you receive an education or job opportunities? This is the reality for millions of people.
Jungles, mountains, swamps, insecurity and a dilapidated infrastructure are all barriers to receiving physical and spiritual care and a hope for the future.
Jungles, mountains, swamps, insecurity and a dilapidated infrastructure are all barriers to receiving physical and spiritual care and a hope for the future.
We are Mission Aviation Fellowship - or MAF - a Christian mission organisation that uses planes to overcome these barriers. Our pilots and personnel deliver relief workers, doctors, pastors, school books, food, medicines - everything that can only be safely and speedily delivered by air. Our supporters give and pray to make this all possible.
With an MAF plane taking off or landing every four minutes, the need is huge. We recognise this need and have partnered up with MAF to help fill their jerrycans! It’s hard to imagine that a little jerrycan, filled with fuel, has the power to save a life. Each jerrycan holds about 20 litres of fuel. That’s enough for 20 minutes of flying. In many of the remote places where MAF serve, short life-saving flights are a regular occurrence. That’s the power of a jerrycan of fuel. For more information on how you can help please visit: Flying for Life
With an MAF plane taking off or landing every four minutes, the need is huge. We recognise this need and have partnered up with MAF to help fill their jerrycans! It’s hard to imagine that a little jerrycan, filled with fuel, has the power to save a life. Each jerrycan holds about 20 litres of fuel. That’s enough for 20 minutes of flying. In many of the remote places where MAF serve, short life-saving flights are a regular occurrence. That’s the power of a jerrycan of fuel. For more information on how you can help please visit: Flying for Life
Mission Aviation Fellowship (MAF) was born out of the ashes of WWII when a handful of RAF men dreamed of using aviation to help those living in the most isolated places. Founded in 1945, MAF’s early assets were the vision, passion and determination of a handful of pioneers, who shared a love of aviation and strong a Christian faith.
After rallying funds for MAF’s first aircraft in 1948 – a Miles Gemini – Flight Lieutenant Stuart King and former Squadron Leader Jack Hemmings began a six-month mission to explore how aircraft could assist the work of humanitarian missions dotted across Africa. With little more than a map, compass and wartime RAF experience, they encountered hazardous terrain, blistering heat and unimaginable needs.
After rallying funds for MAF’s first aircraft in 1948 – a Miles Gemini – Flight Lieutenant Stuart King and former Squadron Leader Jack Hemmings began a six-month mission to explore how aircraft could assist the work of humanitarian missions dotted across Africa. With little more than a map, compass and wartime RAF experience, they encountered hazardous terrain, blistering heat and unimaginable needs.
The pair pioneered a way for humanitarian aviation to spread across the globe.
Since establishing its first mission base in Sudan in 1950, MAF has faced turmoil, hostility and rapid change in Africa, yet has continued to expand to meet growing needs around the world.
Now operating 131 light aircraft in 26 developing countries from Bangladesh to Ecuador, Haiti to Papua New Guinea, MAF delivers lifesaving aid, humanitarian personnel and disaster relief to some of the poorest and most inaccessible communities on earth.
Since establishing its first mission base in Sudan in 1950, MAF has faced turmoil, hostility and rapid change in Africa, yet has continued to expand to meet growing needs around the world.
Now operating 131 light aircraft in 26 developing countries from Bangladesh to Ecuador, Haiti to Papua New Guinea, MAF delivers lifesaving aid, humanitarian personnel and disaster relief to some of the poorest and most inaccessible communities on earth.
Over the last 75 years, MAF has constantly advanced the scope of its operation by modernising is aircraft, equipping its staff and improving its capabilities to become a global leader in humanitarian aviation.
Today MAF is the world’s largest humanitarian airline flying to more remote destinations than the top three commercial airlines combined. Every four minutes, an MAF aircraft takes off or lands somewhere in the world.
Today MAF is the world’s largest humanitarian airline flying to more remote destinations than the top three commercial airlines combined. Every four minutes, an MAF aircraft takes off or lands somewhere in the world.