Disaster Response
When a disaster occurs, MAF responds quickly with air transportation, emergency communications, logistics support, and experienced personnel. Getting the right people to the right place at the right time.
We use our skills to get the right people and the right cargo to the right place at the right time, enabling our partners to respond well in remote, insecure and inhospitable locations. We are the missing piece that enables agencies to bring whatever is needed – medicine, shelter, food – to disaster victims.
MAF responds to disasters around the world to bring help, hope and healing through aviation and in Jesus’ name, so that isolated people can be physically and spiritually transformed.
Vaughan Woodward
Global Manager of Disaster Response,
Mission Aviation Fellowship
Responding to disasters around the world is a key part of MAF’s mission to share God’s love through aviation so that isolated people will be physically and spiritually transformed. Over many decades, MAF aircraft have responded to numerous disasters – from famine in Ethiopia and genocide in Rwanda to more recent major emergencies including earthquakes in Haiti and Nepal and hurricanes Irma and Maria in the Caribbean. This year, we’ve been there to help the relief efforts for remote communities when an earthquake devastated parts of Papua New Guinea and another outbreak of Ebola occurred in the Democratic Republic of the Congo.
Stories about MAF’s disaster response work
After weeks of delays, help and hope reach Bunia
As the largest Ebola outbreak ever recorded in the Democratic Republic of the Congo continues to spread, MAF and Canadian partner Galcom International have worked together to bring potentially life-saving information—and the hope of the Gospel—to communities at the centre of the crisis. [...]
Flight delivers help in the wake of Boko Haram attacks
MAF flew humanitarian staff into the Lake Chad region to support communities affected by armed militant group. […]
Supporting remote communities: MAF’s role amidst Mulitaka landslide tragedy
MAF in Papua New Guinea expresses our heartfelt sympathy for the victims of the recent landslide in Mulitaka village. […]
MAF flies supplies amid cholera concerns
MAF went on a critical mission to deliver medical supplies to parts of northern Kenya amid cholera concerns following the devastating floods. […]
MAF steps up disaster response to Kenyan floods
Devastating floods in Kenya have claimed hundreds of lives and displaced thousands of people since torrential rain lashed the country since March. MAF’s disaster response team has been undertaking aerial survey flights and delivering aid to relieve suffering. [...]
New Year, New Airstrip! Welcome to Torpuot
Last week pilot Jono Pound made the first landing at a brand new airstrip in the village of Torpuot on the banks of the Sobat River. […]
