Stories
We hope these stories, told by MAF staff, our partners and supporters, will both inform and encourage you
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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 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...
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Born for life in Liberia
To mark International Day of the Midwife - MAF's Sarah Newnham explains how a handful of exceptional midwives are helping to improve...
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Into the 'Heart of Darkness'
On the 12th May 1948 Stuart King and Jack Hemmings embarked on what was to be the last phase of their survey by air into the Democratic...
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Healing a child’s grieving heart
A small orphanage in northeastern Liberia cares for children who lost their parents during the Ebola crisis. Story and photos by...
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Watoto village visit
Last week, pilot Matt Eagar had the opportunity to fly a charter for Watoto staff to Gulu in northern Uganda.
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Bringing healthy smiles
MAF and Laynha Health are partnering together to bring health and education to the isolated communities of Arnhem Land.
