News archive 2011

(19 Dec 2011)

An account from pilot Greg Vine, based in Uganda, who flew a team investigating an agricultural project in Kenya with the intention of starting similar projects in northern Uganda.

(08 Dec 2011)

Watch pilot Bryan Pill's video of a medical flight he carried out to Pagak in South Sudan.

(05 Dec 2011)

MAF flies into Somaliland, the first flight we have been able to go there for some time.

(02 Dec 2011)

In mid-November, the UN confirmed an outbreak of cholera at the Dadaab refugee camp in Kenya...

(01 Dec 2011)

MAF pilot Andrew Parker, who flew a young boy bitten by a dog in remote Mahaka in Tanzania, has sent us an update on the boy's condition.

(23 Nov 2011)

The opening of the new airstrip at Pyrulama, Papua New Guinea has already saved 4 lives. But it's also a reminder of how many more could be saved here and in other such villages with no access to such a lifeline.

(17 Nov 2011)

MAF rescued three severely injured people, after their minibus crashed while returning to Antananarivo following a Scripture Union camp in Antsirabe, Madagascar.

(14 Nov 2011)

MAF UK's Carolyn Flanagan has just arrived in Bangladesh! There, she is finding out how MAF's amphibious aircraft is making a real difference to those living and working in hard-to-reach areas. To read about her first-hand experience of being in an environment so different to the UK, read our overseas blog.

(14 Nov 2011)

In 2009, AFD Software from the Isle of Man gave a precious gift to MAF and the people of East Kalimantan - a Kodiak 100. Pilot Paul College reports on a day's flying in this revolutionary aircraft.

(10 Nov 2011)

In a remote South Sudanese village, Nyapieth was unconsious with severe bilateral pneumonia and deadly kala-azar. Find out her story of survival with the help of MAF and a medical team.