Stories
We hope these stories, told by MAF staff, our partners and supporters, will both inform and encourage you
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Special delivery for earthquake areas
What can you do with a cargo of solar lights and tarpaulins, Bibles, guitars and tambourines, soccer balls and volleyballs, hinges...
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National Volunteers Week begins with a banger!
MAF Volunteer Dr Andrew Steele (71), is limbering up for his annual ‘sausageathon’ – where he lovingly prepares yards of...
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Gunshot medevacs save lives in South Sudan
Last week MAF flew medevac flights for two men who sustained gunshot wounds in separate attacks on the country's...
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Responding to Ebola in the Democratic Republic of Congo
MAF's Ebola response continued this week as a new airstrip was opened in the Democratic Republic of Congo.
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Starting from scratch in Myanmar
How do you begin to work in an isolated community that has no outside access? We spoke to ...
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A Year of God’s Grace for the Axon family in Papua New Guinea
A tragedy became a testimony for the Axon family on the long road to healing for their three year old...
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A Creation Story
There’s a world of biodiversity out there – so this International Day for Biological Diversity let’s celebrate and protect the beauty on our doorstep...
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MAF Mr & Mrs
With the sound of wedding bells ringing in this air this weekend, we wanted to celebrate one of our 'happy couples' serving overseas. Meet Sam...
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The honour of serving mothers in need through MAF
Pilot Tyler Schmidt was surprised to find an unexpected name on the passenger manifest when he arrived to carry out a...
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Life Magazine - the Martyrs' story
'In the Jungles of eastern Ecuador lives a tribe of Stone Age Indians called Aucas' wrote world renown photojournalist...
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Practical Love in Timor-Leste
Medevac patients in Timor-Leste generally board the MAF plane with one family member and just a small bag of personal belonging - they...
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Sharing hearts in Mongolia
A team from ’Nurses Heart to Heart Mongolia’ comes once a year to give hands-on training in CPR and emergency child delivery to local...
