The Flying For Life Podcast

It’s been 6 months since Cyclone Gezani devastated Madagascar’s port city of Toamasina, followed by the global fuel crisis, which saw the country’s price of jet fuel skyrocket to 74%. MAF Country Director Andry Rajaobelison and Dr Faly Ravoahangy from Madagascar 3M, share how they’re joining forces to support the hardest-hit communities.

Episode 15 – 75 years of help, hope and healing in PNG MAF PNG is celebrating 75 years! The ‘Aerial Health Patrols’ are part of that incredible work, and have been transforming thousands of lives in Western Province since 2019. Joseph Tua – MAF’s first ever Papua New Guinean floatplane pilot - and partner Dr Alex Maha from the Sustainable Development Programme talk about their amazing partnership. 

Since 1966, MAF’s been serving Chad’s most isolated people such as the Teda in the Sahara. Their language had never been published until linguist Mark Ortman arrived. For 30 years, Mark - enabled by MAF - has developed the Teda alphabet and transformed education. Find out how Mark and Esmara – MAF’s youngest country director - are changing lives.

Nearly 2 million refugees – over half of them children - are now living in Uganda, which has the largest refugee population in Africa. But faced with the largest aid cuts in history, Uganda’s child refugees are suffering. Ruth Jack – MAF’s Africa Director, and Rosemary Khamati from PEACE International share how they’re supporting these vulnerable children.

P2-AFD’ – MAF’s latest addition to the fleet - is now hard at work in Papua New Guinea for. But what’s the story behind this brand-new aircraft and what does it take for a small plane to serve the world’s most isolated communities? In the latest edition of MAF’s Flying for Life podcast, Josh Carter chats to the people behind the plane – donor David Dorricott and pilot Dylan Fast who flew P2-AFD from America to Australia: