Stories
We hope these stories, told by MAF staff, our partners and supporters, will both inform and encourage you
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100 medical safari flights in Madagascar
In 2018, MAF carried out their 100th Medical Safari in Madagascar. Patients, including a little girl called Liny received...
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Breaking new ground in Myanmar
On 4th May 2019, a groundbreaking ceremony was held in Lailenpi, in the Chin State of Myanmar, to mark the start of an airstrip building...
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Changed by God's Word
How missionaries, an airstrip, MAF planes, a school, and a clinic are being used by God to reach the Moi people.
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Healing safaris in Tanzania
Monthly flights in Tanzania bring nurses to remote villages to treat patients who have often walked for hours in search of care.
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Medical outreaches in Chad
MAF has been supporting medical outreaches in Chad for over 50 years. Flights bring doctors from the capital to remote villages with no...
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Amos's appendicitis medevac
When Northern Irish missionary Amos developed appendicitis in a remote community in northern Kenya, MAF was there to fly him to hospital.
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A reason to smile in South Sudan
When Samaritan’s Purse repairs a cleft lip in South Sudan, they are changing a life. The procedure, which takes less than an hour to...
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Remembering D-Day
'By June 1944 I’d been in the RAF for almost three years,' writes Stuart King in his book Hope has Wings. 'Now the D-Day landings had...
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Reopening Pangoa Airstrip
On 30 May, UK pilots Paul Woodington and Israel Neale, re-opened the airstrip Pangoa Airstrip 25 years after the last flight.
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Ladies Business in Papua New Guinea
Clare and Paul Woodington are based at Wewak, where Paul is one of our experienced Caravan pilots serving the communities in the...
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The Word of God, just a click away
Bonifas P.Korangia, known as Boni, served as a technician missionary for 22 years, until last year when he felt called to take a year...
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Gunshot victim saved by IV fluid on MAF flight
The night before a flight to northern Chad MAF received a call from the surgeon at Bardaï hospital with an urgent request...
