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Our Impact

Generous people like you fund the majority of MAF's work around the world.

You can directly meet the needs of isolated people worldwide and make an impact by giving towards specific projects and the people who make MAF's work possible.

Inaccessible Terrain

Flying onto desert and jungle airstrips, lakes and rivers, tracks and roads, MAF’s light aircraft and our pilots go the extra miles to provide a lifeline.

Disaster Relief

Cyclones, typhoons and earthquakes can devastate the world's poorest communities in climate-vulnerable areas like the Philippines, Bangladesh Brazil. Surveying the damage from the air is the first step in getting relief where it is needed, and MAF can be operational within hours, getting precious people and supplies where they are most needed so the rebuilding can begin.

Conflict Zones

When conflict arises, we evacuate NGOs to safety. Often the aftermath can mean there are thousands of people displaced. Living in fear, they face hunger and isolation. MAF flies in food, shelter and healthcare to those in urgent need of help.

Church Evangelists

MAF has had a vision to carry the Gospel to the ends of the earth since the organisation began in 1945. Today, MAF is still serving the Church and those who carry the Gospel, plant churches, encourage Christians in distant communities and translate the Bible into the 'heart' languages of different people groups. Every year there are celebrations as a new Bible translation is flown into a remote village by MAF.

Education

Education opens up a world of possibility and a route out of poverty for people in the developing world. Whether it's flying children to remote school in PNG, school teachers in Arnhem Land, supporting NGO projects that help keep girls in school in South Sudan, or ferrying text books and exam papers, MAF is helping to sow hope into the next generation and open up opportunities for children and adults in their own communities.

Peace-Making

MAF helps to facilitate the work of partner organisations in bringing together those with opposing views to rediscover their shared humanity - promoting forgiveness and reconciliation within communities. We're honoured to be part of the sensitive process of peace-making, through bringing together those who want to lay aside their differences, and the peace-builders who help them find ways to do so.

MAF multiplies the effectiveness of over 1,500 organisations

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“Without the vital services provided by MAF, RAM would be unable to reach the remote parts of PNG without huge difficulty. We, therefore, would like to give our thanks to MAF for a very long-lasting partnership which has greatly aided RAM’s ability to provide a service to the remote parts of PNG.”

- Tim Freeman, Rotarians Against Malaria (RAM), Papua New Guinea

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STORIES OF IMPACT

New Life for Lillian

As Lillian, from Western Equatoria, flew to South Sudan’s capital Juba with MAF for surgery to treat fistula, she was smiling and hopeful, despite living with debilitating condition for decades.Read more

After Years of Pain, They Finally Found Hope

Hadra is the mother of four healthy children, but she has given birth to nine. There are no hospitals in the area where she lives. It is not uncommon for women to labour at home for 2-4 days, ratherRead more

Fighting Polio in remote Papua New Guinea

Much of the world is no longer concerned about polio: a deadly disease that affects mainly children. Though many people in today’s generation barely know what it is, this highly contagiousRead more

Isolated Bougainville gets Radio Communication Link

Having served four years as the officer in charge of Han health clinic in the Carteret islands, Sister Bernice Kumis knows well the challenges of reliable communication and transportation whenRead more

When One Man can See, Two Men are Set Free

As Ernest Nicolaus Skalwanda enters the hospital, his hand is held by Abeli Pita Kamanija. As one seeing, younger man leads a blind, older man to life-changing surgery, it’s evident that the weightRead more

'God still loves me': Rozalia regains full independence after surgery

“The pleasure of the world is to see. If you do not see, you have no pleasure,” says 75-year-old Rozalia Masanja Mayunga. For two and a half years, Rozalia lived with blindness that robbed her ofRead more

'An absolute delight': 45 years of giving, caring and serving

“We wouldn’t have missed it,” said Grant. “There’s nothing else we would rather have done with our lives than what the Lord’s been doing over these 45 years.” From engineering andRead more

‘With MAF, what would normally be difficult becomes possible’

An aircraft from Mission Aviation Fellowship flies over the dry landscape of northern Kenya. On the ground, Maasai huts known as manyatta dot the earth. Their rudimentary construction shows just howRead more

The Flight That Could Change Everything

“Yaya was born with a cleft palate and a problem with his lower jaw, which needs to be readjusted,” says Diallo Mariama Bobo, a telecommunications engineer. Chaikou Yaya Diallo has had this issueRead more

Rescued survivors arrive safely in Buka

The eight men of the rescue team had been sent by sea to extract two fishermen who had been stranded for five days on Ausarara Island in Siwai. With roads cut off and the Ramazon ridge damaged byRead more

From Burundi to South Sudan: An adventure in Mission

Jean Thierry and Moise caught a bus in Burundi to make the 2-day, 782-mile journey overland, from Bujumbura to Nairobi. From there, transport options narrowed. Boarding an MAF plane, they flew 2.5 hoRead more

"Thank you MAF for rescuing us": 88-year-old nun flown to care

For years, MAF has flown Sister Bianca during her life of service, back and forth between South Sudan and Uganda. But this flight for the 88-year-old carried urgency: it was a medevac. MAF pilotRead more
 

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