Aviation without borders
Wings of Help / Aviation Without Borders eV (LOG) is an aid organization founded in 2003 that operates nationally and internationally (e.g. together with its French sister organization Aviation Sans Frontières (ASF)). It mainly provides logistical emergency aid for those in need in crisis areas or in economically and socially weak environments.
Fields of activity
LOG primarily provides help by providing and coordinating flight capacities. For example, private individuals, companies and airlines transport children to urgently needed operations and transport medicines and relief supplies to crisis areas around the world.
The aid projects range from accompanying children , missions with small aircraft , disaster relief , delivery of humanitarian and medical goods to the Wings of Hope campaign . The Wings of Hope campaign aims to give disabled children and adults as well as children from socially disadvantaged backgrounds the opportunity to experience the fascination of aviation . Flights or trips in gliders , powered airplanes and balloons are organized in cooperation with aviation clubs.
The projects are almost exclusively supervised by voluntary helpers and financed by donations from private individuals or business enterprises (monetary donations or passenger / freight capacities).
activities
- June 3, 2003: Foundation in Frankfurt am Main . German astronaut Ulf Merbold will be president .
- December 29, 2004 : After the devastating seaquake in the Indian Ocean on December 26, 2004 , the first delivery with over 10 t of relief supplies left Frankfurt am Main Airport for Sri Lanka .
- September 11, 2005 : Lufthansa flies a mobile clinic organized by "Aviation Without Borders" to the area of New Orleans destroyed by Hurricane Katrina .
- October 14, 2005: Lufthansa flies 105 t of relief supplies from "Wings of Help / Aviation Without Borders" and its French partner organization Aviation sans Frontieres to the earthquake-devastated areas of Pakistan.
- January 10, 2006: Start of another cargo jumbo with 105 t tents, stoves, food, winter clothing, medicines and baby food on behalf of Wings of Help / Aviation Without Borders eV towards Pakistan.
- Further humanitarian projects extend to countries and regions such as Myanmar, Kurdistan, Haiti, Puerto Rico or even Greece - there on refugee camps that are set up on islands.
- One of the current priorities of humanitarian aid is Mozambique, which was hit by two cyclones in 2019 - natural disasters that put children in great need in particular. Wings of Help / Aviation Without Borders eV works in particular with a social foundation that was set up by the former Prime Minister of Mozambique, Luisa Dias Diogo.
- Since it was founded in 2003, Wings of Help / Aviation Without Borders eV has brought aid goods with a total value of around 120 million euros and a volume of over 6,000 tons to people in need all over the world.