Development cooperation often founders on one simple problem: how do you get help to places with no infrastructure, no roads and no airstrips? That is where our agile aircraft come in. For over 80 years we have been flying for humanitarian organisations into the most remote regions of the world, landing without difficulty on gravel strips or water. For cantons and municipalities that want to engage internationally, we are the operational partner who makes your projects possible.
Partnership with the public sector
We work with cantons and municipalities that want to put their international solidarity to effective use. Discover how public funds can save lives.
Building livelihoods together
Cantonal and municipal engagement
Long-term impact
Multi-year partnership
Long-term planning certainty makes lasting impact possible: with multi-year funding you secure regular supply flights or continuous operations in a given region, and you can actively follow developments on the ground.
For you, a long-term partnership means clear budget planning, transparent impact reports and measurable indicators. You are not investing in isolated measures but in sustainable structures that strengthen entire communities. We are happy to adapt the terms of our partnership to your needs.
Building livelihoods
Development work
Does your canton run its own international cooperation programmes? We can act as your operational partner and make your development projects possible.
To secure nutrition and income, we also transport seed to remote villages, bring agricultural specialists to training sessions on site and create links to markets that would otherwise be out of reach. The result is not just short-term help, but long-term prospects for these communities.
Our focus areas
Co-financing operations
Whether disaster relief after an earthquake or long-term health programmes, your public funds can be directed to a specific focus area.
Co-financing is also possible: you share the costs with other public or private partners and so increase the overall impact. One canton finances the medical equipment, a municipality the transport costs, and together you make a comprehensive project possible. We coordinate the partners and make sure every franc arrives.
Sharing resources
Payments in kind
Sometimes goods are more useful than money alone. Municipalities and cantons often have resources we can put straight to use: IT equipment for our coordination centres, vehicles for transport on site, or training rooms for pilot instruction. Even decommissioned but still functional equipment often finds a new purpose with us.
Payments in kind create a win-win: you make the best use of existing resources, avoid disposal costs and make a concrete contribution.
Our 4 priority countries
The MAF Switzerland programme
Physical isolation is a key driver of poverty: without infrastructure, people have poorer prospects for living and developing – particularly in health, nutrition, income and education. That is precisely where the MAF Switzerland programme comes in, in Madagascar, Liberia, South Sudan and Papua New Guinea.
Delivering vital help together
Partner organisations
With more than 1,500 local, national and international partner organisations, we bring help to places it would otherwise never reach, and change lives together.
"Funding MAF has an exponential effect: one flight makes the work of dozens of aid organisations possible at the same time."
Thomas Beyeler
CEO MAF Switzerland
Where roads end, we fly on and bring new courage.
Your donation
To put an end to hunger and poverty
Help us fly to places that lack the basics of life: food, seed or the technology people need. We deliver relief supplies and support cut-off communities in building long-term livelihoods.
The ZEWO seal of approval for aid organisations
MAF is ZEWO-certified
The ZEWO seal of approval confirms it: we use your donations for their intended purpose, effectively and economically. Our finances are transparent and our work is audited. You can rely on your donation making a difference where it is needed most.
Downloads
Further information
Annual reports, further information about MAF as well as in-depth features and first-hand accounts are available free of charge to download in our current brochures and reports.
2025 Annual Report MAF Switzerland
PDF (5.1 MB)
2025 Annual Accounts MAF Switzerland
PDF (415 KB)
MAF Magazine 01-26
PDF (4.7 MB)
MAF Magazine 02-26
PDF (3.9 MB)
MAF Magazine 04-25
PDF (4.8 MB)
Contact
Roland Thörisch
Programme Manager / Fundraising