During civil wars and political unrest – and even when situations stabilise - people are left injured, homeless and without many of life’s basic requirements. Our flights bring much needed medical and development relief, and through our spiritual mission, hope for the future.
- After an attempted coup in April 2006 and with continued insecurity in Chad, our flights provide crucial support to the mission and church community. This has included evacuations of mission personnel from Chad to neighbouring Cameroon during the unrest.
- Throughout the civil war in southern Sudan, our flights enabled relief and development work including healthcare, education, food and agricultural training. From Juba, our base in the new Southern capital, we serve many of the Christian and church agencies. Up to six aircraft a day fly relief and development workers, missionaries and essential supplies into remote communities.
- Angola is slowly emerging from the legacy of war, but there remain millions of buried landmines, making farming in some areas extremely risky. MAF flights take members of the HALO Trust into villages where they carry out the painstaking task of clearing the mines.
- In response to the 20-year conflict between the Ugandan government and the rebel Lord’s Resistance Army, each week we fly staff and vital supplies to support ongoing relief and development work in Northern Uganda.
Kneeling next to desk after desk, little arms crept round me as we prayed for freedom from nightmares, headaches, spirits tormenting them, guilt over what they had done, trauma over what they had seen, fear and despair. Several asked Jesus into their livesPilot Laura Westley, with children in Lira, northern Uganda.