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From current operations to background reports: here you will find everything happening at MAF right now. With stories and publications as well as media material for anyone who would like to report on us.

2024

Hope lands in Dimanbil

For four decades the people of Dimanbil fought against isolation. Today their own airstrip brings MAF flights to the village – and with them access to education, medical care and new opportunities.

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Announcement

2026

Something to hold on to in unsteady times

The world feels unmoored to many. Wars and the climate crisis unsettle us, and it is precisely now that international cooperation is being weakened. Under this banner, Swiss aid organisations are standing together.

Switzerland

über MAF

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Announcement

2026

Change of CEO at MAF International in Switzerland

The board of MAF International in Switzerland has appointed Mark Roth as the new Chief Executive Officer (CEO) for Switzerland with effect from 1 October 2026. Thomas Beyeler is stepping down after seven years at the helm.

Global

über MAF

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Feature

2026

Daniel owes his life to a rescue flight

Daniel dreams of becoming a lawyer and helping his fellow South Sudanese. That he can dream at all he owes to an MAF rescue flight: 20 years ago, as a toddler, he fell into a fire and his life hung in the balance.

South Sudan

Health & hygiene

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Feature

2026

Beyond the airstrip: the latest technology and innovation

MAF reaches some of the most remote places on earth by aeroplane. But where there is no airstrip, help often stops at a geographical limit. New drone technology could change that – and reach people who have been cut off until now.

Global

über MAF

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Feature

2026

“You can literally see them blossom”

When women with a childbirth injury step off the aeroplane in Juba, they carry years of pain and shame with them. At MAF’s booking office, Akoot Dhieu sees those same women return transformed after treatment.

South Sudan

Working at MAF

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Feature

2026

One MAF flight: almost 1,000 patients treated by specialists

With medical rescue flights (medevacs) MAF saves lives – often the only hope in an acute emergency. This story shows it strikingly: one take-off, one landing – and almost a thousand people received medical care.

Tanzania

Health & hygiene

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Feature

2026

60 years of help, hope and healing in Chad

Since 1966 MAF has been flying people to places in Chad that are almost impossible to reach. What began with medical care became far more: famine relief, protecting livelihoods, new opportunities through education. MAF still brings hope there today.

Chad

Faith & hope

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Feature

2026

MAF invests in training and professional development

To secure enough skilled staff for the future, MAF is investing in training. Alongside a new flight simulator in the Netherlands from summer 2026, the further training of aircraft mechanics is a key focus – essential for safe flight operations.

Global

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Feature

2026

The fight against infant mortality

Around Foya in Liberia, seeking medical help means dangerous journeys over impassable roads. The usual transport on ordinary motorbikes carries fatal risks. Motorbike ambulances now bring new hope to Liberia.

Liberia

Health & hygiene

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Feature

2025

Cholera prevention in Torit, South Sudan

In 2025 the number of cholera cases in South Sudan soared – according to the UN, the worst and longest outbreak in the country's history. Thanks to MAF and Medair, thousands of people in remote areas stayed healthy.

South Sudan

Disaster relief

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Feature

2025

Where cocoa, vanilla, coffee and peanuts save lives

In remote communities poverty is usually especially high – isolation blocks access to resources. In the Karimui district of Papua New Guinea, MAF’s flights open up access to markets. Now local people are shaping their own future.

Papua New Guinea

Nutrition & income

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Feature

2025

Forty years with a wound no one was meant to see

For more than forty years Ayor has carried an invisible wound – caused in childbirth, hidden out of shame. For a long time help seemed out of reach. A flight with MAF now gives her the chance of life-changing surgery.

South Sudan

Faith & hope

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What has been reported about us so far

Press coverage

Galileo, ProSieben (2025)

Galileo followed Finnish MAF pilot Iisaaki Saari on his missions in South Sudan. The report shows at first hand how a single flight can decide between life and death.

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ARD Weltspiegel (2025)

ARD Weltspiegel travelled to Timor-Leste and followed MAF pilots on their daily flights into the mountains. A striking insight into a world where the aircraft is the only link to the outside world.

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