"There is no doctor who can do this surgery for my children....."
You can give children like Juvaniot and Juvanot the chance of a brighter future by giving the gift of fuel this Father's Day.
Your gift will help fuel a life-changing flight, bringing care within reach for those who desperately need it.
Juvaniot and Juvanot are young twin boys. They should be running around, playing and enjoying their childhood. Instead, they’re limited by pain and facing a lifetime of suffering.
Simply because the care they needed was too far away.
The boys were born with bowlegs, a condition that causes their legs to curve outward. This makes walking harder and more painful as they grow.
At their age, a simple surgery could correct their legs, giving them the ability to walk pain free.
But they live in a remote village in Madagascar. This
life-changing surgery was not only unaffordable – it was unreachable too.
But you can change this story.
Through your partnership with MAF, you can bring life-changing care within reach for those who desperately need it.
This Father’s Day, why not gift your dad, grandad or father figure a MAF jerrycan card of fuel? Your gift will fuel MAF flights, bringing essential help to children just like Juvaniot and Juvanot.
Sadly, the surgery that Juvaniot and Juvanot needed was not available anywhere near their village, and cost beyond what their mother, Zara, could afford. Early treatment was critical as their condition is much harder to correct later in life.
Through MAF’s collaboration with Mercy Ships, the twins’ surgery was made possible.
MAF flew a team from Mercy Ships to the nearby town of Maroantsetra, to assess patients for treatment. To get to Maroantsetra, Zara and her boys walked for three hours from their village, followed by a four-hour motorbike ride.
Thankfully, once assessed, Juvaniot and Juvanot were among those who were able to fly with MAF to the hospital ship in Toamasina.
What was going to be an impossible week-long journey had now turned into a one-hour flight. Life-changing care was within reach.
“There is no doctor who can do this surgery for my children in Maroantsetra,” Zara explained. “Without this opportunity, I do not know how they could receive treatment.”
Without fuel and generous people just like you, this flight would not have been possible.
Juvaniot and Juvanot would have continued growing up in pain. And the medical care they needed would have remained out of reach.
This is why your partnership matters so much.
By gifting your dad a $50 MAF jerrycan card this Father’s Day, you can fuel more flights just like this. Flights that bridge the gap between essential help, and those who desperately need it.
Will you give a life-saving gift of fuel this Father's Day?
Two weeks after the boys arrived in Toamasina, they had their surgery with Mercy Ships. And it was a success! As of writing this, they are finishing up their rehabilitation before returning home to their village.
It won’t be long until Juvaniot and Juvanot will be able to play and run around without pain. They will be able to live each day with the joy and freedom every child deserves. All because a one-hour flight was available for them.
This is just one story of how a MAF flight can change the trajectory of someone’s life. Around the world, there are many more isolated people in desperate need of medical care - and other vital services - but are living without them.
It’s because of these people that MAF works in partnership with over 1,500 organisations just like Mercy Ships, bringing life-saving help, hope and healing.
Macfaiden Chipeta from Mercy Ships shares how “this work would not have happened in Madagascar if MAF was not there because the roads are simply terrible.”
When roads are too dangerous, too long or simply impossible, a MAF plane can become the only way forward. It can be the only way people can receive the help and care they need to live without pain or suffering.
But every one of these flights needs fuel.
As you feel the rising cost of fuel at the pump, MAF is feeling it too while flying to reach some of the most remote corners of the earth.
This is where your gift that Father's Day can make a real difference.
Your gift can help bring life-changing care within reach for isolated people around the world.