God's Fingers in Suki

"Do you think a robotic scientist and a computer expert can make a difference in a remote community in the swamps of Papua New Guinea? A community only accessible via aircraft?"

Sometimes we fly people to a certain location and, though we might know about the ministry they are involved in, we do not get the full picture, because another pilot is picking them up again. This is also true for the following story, which MAF PNG recently released.
While doing training with a new pilot in the South Fly area of the Western Province, we picked up long term missionary Graham Martin and his two companions in Daru to go to Suki. As the weather had been very challenging we had to overnight in Kawito and had a good time listening to the stories of Graham, who has been serving in PNG for decades. Next day we were able to drop the men in Suki, but did not meet them again as another pilot picked them up and brought them back to Daru.

Click here to read the full story as released by MAF PNG

Having a chat over a bar of chocolat

Weired shaped chocolat bars

Steven and Markus doing area check outs

"Hey, it's my turn!" "No, no, I got it!"

Waiting for the plane to get ready

Teaching in Suki

Food Relief after Flood

"Drought and flood both can cause shortage of food as crops don't grow as they should. Both can go hand in hand in PNG. Just having less rain already affects the growth of a lot of plants depending on an abundance of water, and a continues shower quickly accumulates a lot of water in the tropics. It is common to receive 10% of Switzerlands annual rainfall in just one night.
Last year's drought made UN's World Food Program to step in and help out with rice. In this story it was a flood that caused the government of PNG to help with food relief."

Here the full story as released by MAF PNG:

Click here to read the story as PDF

A plane load of goods ready to be loaded into the Caravan

Bags Of Blessings

"Medevac Care Bags are threefold blessing: first when the Mt Hagen MAF ladies get together to pack them, second when a MAF wife or pilot hands them over to a patient in need, and third when they get unpacked by the grateful recipient."

Here the full story as written by Madeleine and released by MAF PNG:

Click here to read the story as PDF

Telebe with her newborn twins

The Village The World Forgot

"Imagine finding a key to a time machine. Where do you think you would end up?
Ryan Cole, a Canadian pilot, who I trained with at Prairie and who recently joined the MAF PNG program, suddenly found himself in a village the world forgot…"

Here the full story as released by MAF PNG:

Click here to read the story as PDF

Ryan watching as the plane is about to leave him in the past