Mission Aviation Fellowship Timor-Leste

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The Mission Aviation Fellowship Timor-Leste (Maf Timor-Leste) is the East Timorese offshoot of the Mission Aviation Fellowship , a Christian mission organization that organizes air transports in various countries.

background

The infrastructure in East Timor is largely inadequate. Although the number of doctors and medical care stations has increased in recent years, serious emergencies only receive the necessary help in the state capital Dili or even have to be flown to Darwin, Australia . Even within the country, patient transports by air are often necessary, as the roads are in a very poor condition, especially in the rainy season.

99.6% of East Timorese are Christians.

Work in East Timor

Airports and airstrips served by the Maf

On September 10, 2007, the Maf Timor-Leste carried out its first air transport in East Timor. One patient was flown from Suai to Dili . Over the next ten years, over 1,400 patients were flown to the state capital from eight airstrips in the various communities of East Timor. In 2016 alone there were 2,294 passengers (including 268 ambulance transports), 536 flight hours and 91,309 kilometers flown.

In addition to patients, medical personnel are also brought to the people in rural regions, for example specialists who then conduct on-site consultation hours. Members of Christian non-governmental organizations that teach English or show gospel films are passengers, as well as scientists and, in 2016, East Timor’s Prime Minister Rui Maria de Araújo , who otherwise would not have been able to go to a local appointment due to flooding.

Maf Timor-Leste has two Gippsland GA-8 "Airvan" (VH-MQO and VH-MTX) and has two East Timorese and three foreigners as employees. She works in cooperation with the East Timorese Ministry of Health .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Direcção-Geral de Estatística : Results of the 2015 census , accessed on November 23, 2016.
  2. ↑ Maf Timor-Leste: On this day 10 years ago , September 10, 2017 , accessed on September 10, 2017.
  3. ↑ a b c d Mission Aviation Fellowship: Mission Aviation Fellowship International - 2016 Annual Report , accessed on September 10, 2017.
  4. ↑ a b Mission Aviation Fellowship UK: Timor-Leste , accessed September 10, 2017.