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The last Puma Energy fuel stocks will keep MAF PNG going until April 2024 (credit: Mandy Glass)

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The last Puma Energy fuel stocks will keep MAF PNG going until April 2024 (credit: Mandy Glass)
Conflict, Peace and Reconciliation
MAF Operations
10 Mar 2024
MAF’s biggest programme increases fares due to fuel cuts
A 15% fuel surcharge with effect from 11 March 2024 will be added to MAF PNG’s seat fares and charters, given the ongoing shortage of JetA1 fuel across Papua New Guinea. MAF is importing fuel from New Zealand, which is incurring additional costs. This follows recent outbreaks of violence, with Prime Minister James Marape facing a vote of no confidence ...
Meet MAF partner Dr Aja Paul Kuol – South Sudan’s first ever female eye surgeon (credit: Jenny Davies)
Health
High Fliers
Women and Girls
08 Mar 2024
MAF enables first South Sudanese female eye surgeon to restore sight
On 13 March, MAF will fly Dr Aja Paul Kuol – an eye surgeon and president of South Sudan’s Ophthalmic Association - to Yuai in eastern South Sudan. Dr Aja and the team will operate on hundreds of isolated people who’ve been blind for years because they’ve got no access to affordable healthcare. Dr Aja tells MAF’s Jenny Davies why she partners with MAF ...
Aircraft
Employment
High Fliers
26 Feb 2024
New podcast Ep.6 – What does it take to become a MAF pilot?
21-year-old James Gullett – MAF UK’s youngest pilot – has just graduated from MAF’s Future Pilot Programme – a new scheme, which supports upcoming British mission pilots with the cost of their training. James and Marco Koffeman – Director of the Mission Aviation Training Centre where James completed his training – share their highs and lows of learning to fly.
21-year-old James Gullett during flight training with MATC (credit: James Gullett)
High Fliers
MAF Operations
Youth
26 Feb 2024
James Gullett – MAF UK’s youngest pilot – is heading to Arnhem Land
21-year-old James Gullett – MAF UK’s youngest pilot and the first to graduate from MAF’s Future Pilot Programme – has announced he’ll serve with MAF Arnhem Land in Australia’s Northern Territory in October. In MAF’s latest episode of the ‘Flying for Life’ podcast, James shares his incredible journey so far ...
Jack Hemmings AFC is thought to be the oldest pilot to fly a Spitfire (Credit: Simon Dunsmore)
Aircraft
Fundraising
High Fliers
06 Feb 2024
At 102, MAF pioneer Jack Hemmings flies Spitfire for the first time
On Monday 5 February, 102-year-old Jack Hemmings AFC, took to the skies in a Spitfire for the first time raising over £5,000 for the charity he co-founded nearly 80 years ago. This latest feat from RAF Biggin Hill in South London follows a number of high-flying challenges performed by the much-loved RAF veteran in recent years ...
Illegal wildlife bushmeat is decimating Liberia’s protected species (credit: Peaches Cummeh)
Natural Environment
Women and Girls
03 Feb 2024
MAF enables Liberia’s anti-bushmeat campaign
Campaigners Peaches Cummeh from the Forestry Development Authority (FDA) and Comfort Davies – a former illegal bushmeat trader – have joined forces with MAF to protect Liberia’s wildlife. Thanks to MAF flights, they’re accessing and educating remote communities to help prevent the slaughter of wild animals for meat. MAF’s Rachel Gwole reports ...
The Sikoi community welcome MAF with open arms (credit: Tim Neufeld)
MAF Operations
11 Jan 2024
MAF opens five airstrips in five months across rural PNG
Sikoi Airstrip in Jiwaka Province is the latest airstrip to open in rural Papua New Guinea. It follows the opening of Rum Airstrip in November, Yakona and Dimanbil in October and Aiyu in September. Most of PNG’s population live in remote areas without decent roads. For many, airstrip access is a matter of life or death, but how do you open an airstrip in the middle of nowhere? ...
Class of January 2024 – these graduates have learnt to read, write and/or sew (credit MAF US)
Conflict, Peace and Reconciliation
Education
Women and Girls
10 Jan 2024
100s of IDPs in the DRC benefit from workshops enabled by MAF
In the run up to the presidential elections in December, hundreds of thousands of people fled conflict within the DRC – a country which already hosts the largest number of internally displaced people (IDPs) in Africa. Since 2017, MAF’s been supporting IDP camps in eastern DRC by enabling trauma counselling, peace and reconciliation workshops and dressmaking and literacy classes. The latest cohort graduated on 9 January ...
Meet Joost, Ruth, Naud (L) aged 10 & Annemijn (R) aged 8 (credit: Paula Alderblad)
High Fliers
MAF Operations
03 Jan 2024
New year, new job – high-flying couple give it all up for MAF
Former airline captain Joost de Wit and his co-pilot wife Ruth have clocked up nearly 40 years at KLM between them, but this month they’re flying off to Kenya for MAF. Following two years of training and preparation, MAF’s newest pilot couple have swapped their comfortable careers for flying in the bush. ...
Victoria steps off MAF plane in Haydom carrying Amira’s body (credit: Peter Griffin)
Health
Medevac
18 Dec 2023
Gastroschisis in Tanzania
When baby Rose was born, she had a hole in her tummy and her bowel had formed outside of her body. The condition ‘gastroschisis’ is treatable in the UK and most children grow up to live normal lives, but what hope is there in rural Tanzania when healthcare is so hard to come by?
MAF History
MAF Operations
Women and Girls
14 Dec 2023
New podcast Ep.5 – Happy Birthday MAF Arnhem Land!
For half a century, MAF’s been serving the Yolngu people who live in the vast, isolated wilderness of Australia’s Arnhem Land. We hear from MAF Arnhem Land’s country director Matt Henderson and MAF partner Natalie Morreau who manages Miyalk Domestic & Family Violence Shelter, which has been empowering women for decades.
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