Inside a dark wooden hut, 20+ kilometers from the nearest muddy road, UK medical student Hannah Russell and several others in white lab coats labour over ‘buckets of poo’. They filter each faecal sample through a mesh, collected from 50 Malagasy village children, smear it onto a microscope slide, and start counting the eggs. It’s […]
Melanie is a strong woman and our God is almighty. Melanie suffered from what is far more common than many understand. From a very remote village, she was pregnant but her child did not make it to full term. Something very common in the developing world. The danger though, came when she was not able […]
A relatively short flight for us, can spare lots of travel for our customers. The following quote is from a customer that was not able to come with us, as his fellow travellers, but had to go by car: “Many thanks for all you/MAF did for us last week. I arrived at the taxi-brousse station […]
Flights are often scheduled to deliver much needed vaccines to areas of Madagascar. These are ‘rush’ vaccines which need to get to their destination quickly while they are still in a chilled state, something that is not possible if they were transported by road. Normally the plane is full of vaccines, but for this flight […]