“I’ve been to five airstrips in Enga yesterday, and now I am going to Jiwaka airstrips. I’ve been to two already and now my pilot will take me to another three.“ For Joseph, an elderly men with a big smile shining through his big grey beard, this makes a total of 10 landings at different […]
LuAnne Cadd interviews Dr. David Mills in November 2016 about the Kompiam Hospital and how MAF supports their work in remote areas. Kompiam Rural Hospital in Papua New Guinea is at the end of a road. Everything north is inaccessible except by walking or flying. The hospital supervises five health centers and four aid posts […]
“Alpha 899, Alpha 899,” David Feka calls into the HF radio he has spent the last two days installing in a remote mountain village in Papua New Guinea. “This is our first call out of Guasa education radio. Do you copy me? Over.” The group gathered in the small schoolroom listens intently while a cluster […]