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09 Oct 2025
Abandoned
This Christmas, your gift could help support the 50,000 forgotten children in Uganda, like 16-year-old Nyabuom, who are abandoned and alone. No child should be left abandoned this Christmas. Give the gift of Hope by donating today
P2-WET lands in Kapikam met by excited locals (credit: Terry Fahey)
News
09 Oct 2025
P2-WET one year on – highlights of MAF’s floatplane in PNG
It’s been a year since MAF’s amphibious aircraft began operating in Lake Murray – Papua New Guinea’s largest lake. From enabling healthcare to delivering school supplies, hundreds of lives have been transformed for the better. We take a look at some of P2-WET’s achievements… (more…)
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02 Nov 2025
Global Week of Prayer 2025
From 2 November – 9 November, we are holding our usual global week of prayer for MAF and those we serve. Join us as we unite and pray together. Sign up to take part here.
Mark Liprini has devoted nearly 25 years of service to MAF across Africa (credit: Päivi Griffin)
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30 Sep 2025
MAF honours Mark Liprini following nearly 25 years of service
In MAF’s 80th year, 65-year-old Mark Liprini – MAF’s chief pilot, operations director and flight instructor in Tanzania – undertook his last operational flight after nearly 25 years of flying. We look back on Mark’s incredible career… (more…)
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19 Sep 2025
MAF Recruitment Film – It’s my dream job. Dave’s story.

This is Dave. As a teenager he knew he wanted to work with Mission Aviation Fellowship. So much so that he planned his choice of qualifications around it.

Now Dave is working as MAF's Africa Regional Avionics Manager and Deputy Director of Maintenance in Liberia serving as part of the regional engineering team.

As a Christian mission, MAF have been serving isolated communities in low-income countries for over 75 years!

Subscribe to our recruitment emails journey and we’ll show you more about the various roles we have from Pilots and Engineers to Finance Directors, Country Directors, IT roles, teaching opportunities and so much more. Explore what's required and how to take the next step, in what could be the most exciting adventure you've ever been on!

Two-thirds of students at Naserian Secondary School are girls (credit: Annet Nabbanja)
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10 Aug 2025
MAF supports girls’ education in the face of FGM & child marriage
For 40 years, MAF has partnered with Angelika Wohlenberg-Kinsey who later founded ‘Help for the Maasai’ (HftM) in 1996. Based in Malambo, northern Tanzania, this charity protects girls’ human rights through education. Following the launch of MAF’s new joint campaign ‘It’s Her Future’, Claire Gilderson chats to Angelika about the plight of girls in rural Tanzania… (more…)
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08 Aug 2025
New podcast Ep.12 – P2-AFD: MAF’s latest addition to the fleet
P2-AFD has been hard at work since arriving in PNG in June, but what’s the story behind this aircraft and what does it take for one small plane to serve hundreds of isolated communities? We meet the people behind the plane – donor David Dorricott and pilots Dylan and Val Fast who flew her to Australia.
Pilot Harry Hartwig with the Auster Autocar aircraft at Asaroka, New Guinea (credit: MAF Archive)
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06 Aug 2025
‘Harry didn’t come home’ – Harry Hartwig’s widow reflects on legacy
74 years ago on 6 August 1951, Edwin ‘Harry’ Hartwig – MAF’s first pilot in New Guinea – tragically dies in a plane crash over the Asaroka Gap. Despite its brutal beginnings, MAF PNG grows into the charity’s biggest programme. MAF’s Janne Rytkonen talks to Harry’s 97-year-old widow Margaret Baldock about his incredible legacy… (more…)
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25 Nov 2025
Soaring Together: Spotlight on Papua New Guinea
Online | Tuesday 25 November 2025 MAF is celebrating 80 years, and we’d love you to join us for our next virtual legacy event. During this special spotlight on Papua New Guinea (PNG), you’ll find out how, through leaving a gift to MAF in your Will, you can bring help, hope and healing to future generations. The event is open to all supporters – whether you’ve already left a gift to MAF in your Will, would like to find out more about leaving a legacy to MAF, or are just keen to hear the latest about our work in PNG. Why join us? This is an amazing opportunity to hear directly from our overseas team about exciting developments and plans, showing how MAF aims to make an even greater life-saving impact in and around PNG. For 45 minutes, you’ll hear new and inspiring stories – before anyone else! You’ll also discover how including a gift to MAF in your Will can make an extraordinary difference.   Whether you’ve supported MAF for a long time or are only just learning about our work, we hope you’ll find this a heartwarming experience. We look forward to exploring together the ways in which we can support God’s work in PNG and across the globe, leaving a lasting legacy of hope for generations to come. Questions During the event, you’ll be able to ask questions in the Chat about our work in PNG or leaving a gift in your Will. Our team will then do their best to answer your questions at the end of the event. Register To register for this FREE event, please complete the short form below. We’ll then send you a confirmation email, plus information on how to join the event online
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22 Jul 2025
Help for the Maasai
For Elinami, school is more than just learning…it’s her health; her safety; her future. Donate £26.68 to help fill the next MAF flight with school and medical supplies for children like Elinami.
P2-AFD transports passengers to Miyanmin during its first PNG tour (credit: Markus Bischoff)
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06 Jun 2025
MAF’s newest plane ‘P2-AFD’ takes 1st flight in Telefomin, PNG
On 3 June 2025, ‘P2-AFD’ - MAF’s latest addition to the fleet – made its inaugural operational flight to Tekin in northern PNG. The greatly anticipated aircraft immediately went to work, but what does it take for a small plane to serve the world’s most isolated communities? MAF's Claire Gilderson charts P2-AFD’s incredible journey... (more…)
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